The Miracle of Embryo Adoption:
Our Journey to Lena Joyce
(All the pictures in this post are of Lena.)
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
-Psalm 139:13-14
"Because after all;
A person's a person
no matter how small."
-Dr. Seuss
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
-Psalm 139:13-14
"Because after all;
A person's a person
no matter how small."
-Dr. Seuss
2006 – Lena is created in a lab through the IVF process using her genetic Dad’s sperm and an egg from an egg donor and is placed in frozen storage 18 hours after fertilization.
July 2009 - Dan and Elizabeth begin the adoption process.
November 2010 – Lena’s donor family decide that their family is complete and donate Lena and 11 other embryos from her set back to the IVF clinic for adoption.
February 2011 - Our legal “adoption” of Lena is complete.
March 5, 2011 – Lena is thawed after being frozen for nearly five years.
March 9, 2011 – After growing for five days in a petri dish, Lena is transferred to Elizabeth’s body.
June 21, 2011 - At 18 weeks we find out that Lena is a healthy little girl!
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Thanksgiving 2011 – Lena continues to be a beautiful and healthy blessing to her mom and dad.
December 2011 - Lena is one month old.
January 2012 - Lena is two months old.
February 2012 - Lena is three months old.
We can't wait to see how our Lena will grow and change. She is such an amazing little person and we are enjoying watching her grow up.
4 comments:
Such a beautiful progression. A little miracle!
What an awesome story! And to think, those embryos could just have easily been discarded or donated to "science". She is a miracle girl!
What an amazing journey God has paved for you!
Such an amazing journey! Thanks for sharing your little miracle. ;)
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