Building Your Open-Hearted Family

Hello!

I s Spring in the air in your part of the world? The bulbs are already starting to peek their green leaves out of the ground here in Colorado.

We feel like you are all part of the Snowflakes team and we appreciate your encouragement, support and referrals. Embryo Adoption is a wonderful way to build families and it is a blessing to others when you tell them about this adoption option.

Amazing as it is, the Snowflakes program fee has not changed in over 15 years. On April 1, our fee will increase a modest $1,000 in order to help us cover the costs associated with providing help to both placing and adopting families.

People who complete their application to begin embryo adoption prior to April 1, will enter the program under the previous fee schedule.

How Embryo Adoption Brought Two Families Together

How do families begin to establish a relationship when they are matched through embryo adoption?

The Hendersons and Gassmans are embryo placing and adopting families who are now experiencing the joys of friendship because they chose to overcome their fears..

Watch this short video to learn the steps they purposefully made to build trust and love into their new family tree.

At Snowflakes we encourage matched families to develop a communication plan. These two families share with you their determination to overcome fear, resulting in great relationships for their children and for themselves View the video here

Become a Power Player - Send Us a Short Video

Your stories are powerful tools to help raise awareness and participation.

Almost everyone has a video recording machine in their pocket - a smartphone! Videos are the most popular element of social media and you can easily help.

We're looking for your 1-2 minute video sharing with others your experience with the Snowflakes program. We will use them on our website, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, marketing endeavors, and as resources for families considering this family building option.

It's as easy as A-B-C.

A. Focus on ONE of the 8 topic ideas listed below.

B. Check out this YouTube video 10 tips about making short smartphone videos.

C. Video files are difficult to send via email, contact Paige@Nightlight.org to get instructions for submitting your masterpiece.

Snowflakes Video Topic Ideas:

What is the primary reason you chose to work with Snowflakes?
Tell us about the day you discovered you were pregnant with your Snowflakes baby.
What is something that surprised you about embryo adoption?
If you are a placing family, why did you decide to chose a family through Snowflakes rather than a clinic or other organization?
Share one thing you think will help another family with their embryo adoption - something you wish you had known. .
What steps have you taken to build your open relationship with your adoptive/placing family.
What was the most important thing for you in a match?
Where do you believe families should be learning about embryo donation and adoption and why?

Get those cameras rolling... Lights! Camera! ACTION! Send your's to Paige TODAY.

It’s 2020: Why Are We Still Afraid of Adoption Telling?

by Lori Holden

The move toward openness in adoption started in the 1980's, which means for more than 40 years we have been morphing from shame, secrecy, and walls of closed adoption => to => truth, disclosure, and doors of open adoption .

But time alone doesn’t mean all adoptive parents and hopeful adoptive parents have gotten the message of dealing in truth and openness.

Prospective parents, though, may bear the ultimate responsibility for learning about current best practices in adoptive parenting. But how can they know what they don’t know? A blind spot is, by definition, a thing you can’t see is there.

Learn more here

Remember that YOU are the best voice for Snowflakes!

Your referrals are important to help us maintain a balance

between placing and adopting families.

Keep spreading the good word wherever you go.

info@Snowflakes.org | 970-663-6799

March Blessings come in Bundles of Joy!

Both placing families and adoptive families celebrate the arrival of three little ones, full of potential and LIFE!

CONGRATULATIONS!

S and K welcomed their sons, Kelton #705 and Reed #706

J and C welcomed their son, Hudson #707

Twin brothers Kelton and Reed contemplate all the

mischief they will get into once they are mobile!

Hudson is giving lessons in power napping and reflection multi-tasking at an early age!

Thanks for reading. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for supporting the Snowflakes Embryo Adoption Program.