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Published October 24, 2015
Liz Krainman calls her 4-month-old baby girl a "snowflake," but not because she looks so cute. Little Sammy is actually one of several children in Krainman's embryo adoption group with that nickname.
"We sometimes lovingly call our frozen embryos snowflakes," she says. "It fits them perfectly! Each is a tiny, delicate, frozen being, and no two are exactly alike." Krainman, 33, and her 37-year-old husband Kevin—residents of Austin, Texas—sat down with People to explain why they chose to adopt an embryo that had been created by another couple's IVF cycle and frozen in a storage facility.
The process costs about $3,500 to $12,000 per try, they say:
And Krainman isn't alone: Another happy mom-to-be writes in the New York Times about adopting an embryo, and a couple tells CBS News about their satisfaction with the process: "You feel like you are adopting babies—[the embryos] are yours now," the mom says.
"I knew that they were alive going into me." (Click to read about a woman who was accidentally impregnated with another couple's embryos.)
This article originally appeared on Newser: Mom: Why I Adopted a Frozen Embryo
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