Did you know a small, but growing, number of families are turning to embryo adoption programs. Some are of course adopting embryos created during their own in vitro fertilization cycles but others are actually adopting unused embryos to build families of their own. One of the by-products of IVF treatment is the creation of ‘supernumerary embryos’ or pre-embryos. As part of the procedure, more embryos are brought into existence than actually used. The remaining embryos are frozen to be used later if the first trial proves unsuccessful or if the couple wants another child. This debate was touched on a few months back when Sophia Vergara was being sued for the rights to embryos she had created during IVF cycles with a former boyfriend.