In this powerful episode, Abbey Ramirez shares the winding, vulnerable, and hope-filled road that led her to motherhood through embryo adoption and eventually to welcoming twins through domestic infant adoption. After years of unexplained infertility, repeated losses, and the emotional weight of uncertainty, Abbey discovered embryo adoption, an option she barely knew existed. Her story takes us inside the medical, emotional, and relational complexities of transferring embryos, navigating open donor relationships, and holding joy and grief at the same time.

Abbey opens up about the moment she learned only one embryo had survived, the heartbreak of a failed second transfer, and how she carried both gratitude and sorrow in the same breath. Then, in a stunning twist of timing and grace, she and her husband were chosen to adopt twins almost exactly one year later. Abbey speaks with clarity, warmth, and honesty about becoming a mom through multiple forms of adoption, and how she’s already laying the groundwork to talk about genetics, identity, and belonging with her children.

This episode is a comforting, educational, and profoundly human look at infertility, embryo adoption, and the surprising ways families grow.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• How embryo adoption works and what the process actually looks like
• The emotional reality of infertility and unexplained diagnosis
• What happens during a frozen embryo transfer (FET)
• Navigating open, semi-open, and anonymous embryo donation
• How to talk to kids about embryo adoption and genetic identity
• The grief of failed transfers and finding hope again
• How Abbey ultimately built her family through both embryo and infant adoption

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