I stopped my lactation protocol about 9 months after I started, and a week and a half after beginning the pumping part; it was just too time consuming and expensive to keep up with, considering there's no baby in sight. We are going back through all our adoption options, and reconsidering Embryo Adoption now. Our domestic agency is very slow right now, a private adoption situation doesn't seem to be working out, and the expiring adoption tax credit is bringing us to a place of re evaluation of our course.
When families pursue in vitro fertilization, they often end up with extra frozen embryos that they don't feel they can gestate and parent. Some families donate their embryo's to science, where they are destroyed. Others transfer them into the mother in a way unlikely to result in pregnancy. Some freeze them indefinitely, and still others choose to donate them to other families who wish to have more children. There aren't a whole lot of laws governing embryo "adoption", and it technically isn't considered such, as embryos aren't recognized as people by law. However, there are agencies that work with families to honor the humanity of these tiny babies by facilitating placements in a manner very similar to those of traditional adoptions. The tax credit (even if it had been renewed) wouldn't count toward this type of adoption though, since embryo personhood isn't upheld and protected by law at this point. Anyway, to go through these agencies to adopt embryos is essentially about the same cost as some traditional, domestic adoptons. I am apparently not a gifted fundraiser, so this option seems out of reach for us at this point. I have found though, a non profit resource that connects embryos donors and recipients in a more casual manner, so that the costs involved mainly involve a simple legal contract and those of transferring the embryos into the adoptive mother at a fertility clinic. This, we can do!
So we are looking into this and praying about it.
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