What do you do with frozen embryos after you've successfully conceived?

Many couples who have dealt with infertility struggle with what to do and stop paying storage fees, but the number of embryo donations is on the rise

Every four months, my husband and I receive a bill from Cornell Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, asking us for another $250 to continue storing our embryos. We've had four embryos sitting on ice, so to speak, since 2010, when I underwent fertility treatments to have my son. The treatments yielded six embryos; we used two, and we held on to the rest in case we wanted another child.

But it's now been four and a half years, we've paid $4,500 to keep the embryos preserved, and I don't even know if they would work if we wanted to use one. I think of how fresh a frozen steak looks after just a couple of months. Indeed, a recent study said women who used frozen, or cryopreserved, eggs to have a baby had a lower success rate than those who used fresh eggs, or oocytes. The same may hold true for frozen embryos.