Match Making

Suddenly thing are happening quickly and I am falling behind on updates! We have been looking at Embryo profiles this last month; information about the Donating family like physical description, personality and family dynamics. Also, what they are looking for in an adoptive family. We considered very carefully how many embryos we would like to adopt since we would be adopting all the remaining embryos of the profile we choose. We selected a few profiles that fitted that we felt might be a good match and requested more information. We received pictures of siblings and parents and even a letter from one family telling more about themselves. Steve and I both agreed that one family stood out as the one we felt that we should send our profile to; a family with 2 embryos.
We contacted the Adoption Agency and requested that our profile be sent. Our profile consists of a worksheet containing basic information about our family; race, religion, hobbies, physical description, education, income etc.. Our profile also included a personal letter, outlining who we are as a family and our vision to include new family members into our lives and a collage of family pictures including our home and pets.
It was exciting and to ask a family to consider allowing us to adopt their embryos! It was also very scary to ask strangers choose us, knowing full well that they might decline!
After what seemed like weeks, but was only a few days, we heard news. The family accepted our match proposal! We are all so very excited!! I was teary when I phoned Steve with the news! We are currently working on signing a Match Contract and finalizing Adoption papers! The expected completion date of the Adoption is June 25Th.
It has been a long time coming, but in the foreseeable future, we will be the proud parents of two precious Embryos!
I will write more about the next steps after that in a later blog, but just to give you an idea, we will have to do a lot of travelling to the US to approximately 3 clinic visits before we get to bring the babies home.
To be continued....