For infertile people, the fate of frozen embryos is deeply personal
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When Ericka Andersen and her husband started infertility treatment a decade ago, they were hoping for one successful pregnancy.
Andersen, a freelance writer and author who lives in Indianapolis, had married in her early 30s and wanted to start a family right away. When she did not become pregnant after a couple of years, she sought out help and eventually decided to try in vitro fertilization—better known as IVF—in which fertilized eggs grow into embryos in a lab and then are transferred to a uterus.
“You are thinking, I just want one of these to work,” she said. “Because for some people it never works.”
