Hello, Good Morning, Afternoon, or Evening,

It’s a pleasure to, well not meet you, but meet you. We are interested in adopting your embryos. We’ve been married and trying on and off again for almost a decade to conceive. Wife is in the military, so we’ve moved several times throughout this time. After the better part of 2 years of trying naturally, we decided to try using the Mosie baby system a few times without success. Afterwards, my wife started looking into infertility work up. The doctors found nothing wrong. We moved on, trying Mosie again, before being relocated by the military …again.

While at this new home, wife did another medical work up which again came back fairly clear. Once that was done, we moved over to my infertility; turns out I am “medically sterile.” This was frustrating but we researched some options for IVF because there was still a very small amount of viable sperm.

Then the joys of 2020 happened, and we had another military move… fun. After relocating during the pandemic, we started looking more actively into IVF as IUI was determined to not be effect with the sperm count. Because of the base we were stationed at, we had to travel back to the continental United States for IVF. Although there are a few hospitals in the military community that provide this service, we looked more into clinics that were closer to family to have extra support and save a little money on hotels.

We had a round of IVF resulting in retrieval of 22 eggs, 15 were mature enough to be fertilized, resulting in 2 viable embryos. We implanted the first one, it didn’t take. We grieved, were disappointed, and frustrated. We just recently tried the second embryo following another military move to a base with an infertility specialist. Unfortunately, our final embryo did not take. Wife’s doctor suggested embryo adoption as an option to consider for future embryos given challenges related to the past egg retrieval combined with low sperm count. It has been a long rough road.

So that was the easy part, now for the mostly awkward part where we’re not really sure what to say. Talking about ourselves is not natural. We are both introverts. Wife is a military child & adolescent psychiatrist and husband is an artist who also picks up a retail job somewhere to bring in a bit of extra money for fun and art supplies. We live in a 4-bedroom house with a finished basement, so we have room for a few kids.

We also have a fenced backyard and 2 dogs, both are Irish Doodles. We spend our Saturdays training our dogs who are just old enough to begin learning agility training. One is a bit of a couch potato and the other is a hyper ball of energy. Ironically, the younger one is the couch potato and the older one is the ball of energy. Of course they are still just puppies both under 2 years old. They are both super soft, friendly and play well with our niece and nephew.

Umm, as far as hobbies are concerned, wife is big on reading and animals. She also enjoys gardening.

Husband, on the other hand kills plants, but is happy to create flower beds and to help wife take care of the hydroponic garden. Husband likes watching anime and doing all sorts of arts & crafts. Husband’s current artistic passion is pottery. Mostly throwing clay on the wheel. Husband has experimented a bit with hand building. Husband’s biggest challenge is trying to get the glaze just right. We both enjoy going hiking, going to zoos and parks. Wife was a docent for a zoo when she was a teen and knows a ton of animal facts.

We look forward to taking trips to Disney and all over the nation similar to the trips my wife’s parents did with her. They managed to visit all 50 states before my wife graduated high school as well as several countries. We try to visit either husband’s dad and his wife or wife’s parents around Christmas or in January if we can’t make it during the holidays. We have a goal to visit all 52 National Parks in the US and as many state parks as we can manage. We are pretty sure wife’s parents will take the grandkids to all the Disney parks in the world.

In the end, there really are only two things we can promise you. One, we won’t be the prefect parents and are bound to make mistakes. Two, we will do our best to provide them with a home full of love, fun, and adventure. We appreciate your gift of embryo donation and being a part of our family’s story.