Open embryo adoption can be a beautiful thing. This episode gives you a firsthand glimpse from embryo recipients David & Laura George and their embryo donors Gerard & Nicole Straka. Below are some helpful timestamps:

2:00-3:51   What factors were important to adopters David & Laura in the donor selection process

4:04-5:28  How donors Nicole & Gerard’s fertility journey played out

5:51-10:33  Nicole & Gerard on how they agonized over what to do with their frozen embryos, and how a canceled credit card saved their embryos’ chances at life outside the womb.

11:27-16:39  What the mediation process was like for the open adoption

17:20-18:00  What it was like for the donors to see their embryos results in babies born

18:42-22:33  How David & Laura felt when their children were born

23:20-29:15  What their open relationship looks like today

29:53-30:40  What Colt, the donors’ teenage son, thinks of the open adoption relationship