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I have zero experience, but Mrs. Pickle wrote about her journey with embryo adoption on the blog a few years back.
http://www.hellobee.com/2015/04/01/introducing-mrs-pickle/

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I have read about women who will donate embryos when they are through having children of their own and do not wish to incur the financial burden of maintaining the embryos further. I have yet to come across any amazing saint of an individual who would ever afford me the chance to adopt her embryo for transfer. I have always wondered if there are institutions and specific qualifications one must meet for an embryonic "gifting" or, more popularly, an adoption.
Thank you, @Sams Mom for inquiring over this!

@Mrs. Pajamas: As much as I would love to request information on your embryos for myself (cycle 35 TTC here ), would you consider having a discussion with Sam's Mom? She has been quite passionate about having another baby for a while and has been discussing embryonic adoption on the POAS boards for a bit now.

@agold: Thank you! I did not know it was an option. I've always been afraid to inquire at a clinic.

@Sams Mom: I don't think there would be any limitations re: initial or secondary infertility. (Although.. any clinic could put whatever arbitrary limitations on this they want, I suppose.. but then I would just move on to the next clinic.) Its possible that embryo adoption may be only offered to current clinic patients. (Is "patient" the right word?) But again.. just call around. At our clinic, my sister was not required to adopt the full set of embryos. And she did not adopt the full set. I think the person who is adopting out their embryos is able to retain some sort of control on who they adopt the embryos to and under what conditions. But also, I'm sure some people do not want to have a say in that process. My sister was able to see pictures of the child from the embryo set she was adopting. I do not know anything about the sibling program. And I don't know the difference one way or another about adopting from a clinic or an agency. Seems like it may be cheaper to go through the clinic since you would be cutting out the middle man. But then you may have to wait for embryos to become available, whereas the agency would probably already have a bunch.

@Sams Mom: ohhhh embryos not eggs, oops duh.

@Sams Mom: I imagine your guess on embryo adoption being cheaper is right because the most expensive part of IVF is the egg retrieval due to all the monitoring, meds and the procedure itself is basically an out-patient hospital procedure with anesthesia and what not. It's far more complicated and invasive than doing a frozen transfer which is what you would do for an adopted embryo. When you adopt eggs you still have to involve an embryologist to get them to fertilize with your husband's/donor's sperm. That is expensive because that's where the magic happens as I like to think of it!