The increasing number of children born through sperm donation, and the fact that many of those children are just now reaching adulthood, is leading to a revolution in the way we define families. A Tuesday Post story examined how children conceived this way are beginning to search for the donors.
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Sperm donors think ‘father,’ egg donors don’t think ‘mother’
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011A New Openness For Donor Kids About Their Biology
Friday, September 23rd, 2011First in a two-part report.
Women inseminated with a donor’s sperm used to be advised to tell no one. Go home, doctors said, make love to your husband and pretend that worked. But in a trend that mirrors that of adoption — from secrecy to openness — more parents now do plan to tell such children how they were conceived and are seeking advice on how best to do that.
Tina Gulbrandson understands the temptation of secrecy. She felt stigma and pain when she needed to use another woman’s eggs to get pregnant.
“You feel incompetent,” she says. “You feel like you failed, as a woman.”
NPR: Nudging Young Women To Think About Fertility
Friday, June 24th, 2011Since 2004, when Christy Jones launched Extend Fertility, the first U.S. company to market egg freezing as a lifestyle choice, thousands of people have contacted her and hundreds have undergone the procedure. But there’s a troublesome disconnect.
The average age of those inquiring is 34 1/2, an ideal time to put one’s biological clock on hold. But the average age of the women who actually freeze their eggs is 37 1/2, the upper edge of the recommended range.
“There’s a huge emotional barrier,” Jones says. Egg freezing “for a lot of women brings up the idea of love, marriage, motherhood, where they are in their life.”
Meet Alexis Stewart’s Daughter Jude
Thursday, June 9th, 2011She’s been trying for a baby for five years, but on March 8, Alexis Stewart‘s dream of being a mom finally came true when she welcomed her daughter, Jude, via gestational surrogate.
“Getting Jude was lucky,” she tells PEOPLE. “I’m happy, but this has been rough.”
NPR: Egg Freezing Puts The Biological Clock On Hold
Friday, June 3rd, 2011As more women postpone motherhood into their 30s, even 40s, they’re hitting that age-old constraint: the biological clock. Now, technology is dangling the possibility that women can stop that clock, at least for a while.
In a Manhattan office building on a recent evening, two dozen women — all in their 30s and 40s — sit in folding chairs, balancing cellphones and glasses of wine. They’re gathered for a seminar called “Take Control of Your Fertility.”
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/31/136363039/egg-freezing-puts-the-biological-clock-on-hold
Calgary: Ruling gives birth to rights for donor-conceived tots
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Last week, a landmark decision by the British Columbia Supreme Court finally acknowledged this emptiness by ruling that the children of anonymous sperm and egg (gamete) donors have the same rights as adoptees to access the identity and medical history of their unknown biological parents.
The court gave the province 15 months to enact appropriate legislation. In the meantime, no gamete donor records are to be destroyed or transferred outside of the province.
Mind-Body Programs Boost Pregnancy Rates for IVF Patients
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011TIME: Infertility treatment is stressful: everyone else seems to be getting pregnant; why can’t you? So what if there were an evidence-based method that could dramatically increase the success of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF?
A new study published online in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that women who participate in mind-body training have a significantly higher pregnancy rate than women who don’t undergo training: 52% compared to 20%.
New Jodi Picoult novel addresses infertility, frozen embryos
Monday, March 28th, 2011The celebrated American author Jodi Picoult, who wrote My Sister’s Keeper has tackled another subject that women face in modern society, infertility.
The plot of “Sing You Home” centers around Zoe, who is 40 years old, female and has suffered through several unsuccessful cycles of IVF, divorce, cancer, finding true love with a same sex partner, followed by a court battle over the custody of her frozen embryos and she must also go up against her ex-husband’s powerful church which preaches intolerance.
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Fertility Source Companies Affiliates with Prospective Families
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010Fertility SOURCE Companies (The Donor SOURCE and The Surrogacy SOURCE) is proud to announce its affiliation with, Prospective Families, an egg donor agency.
By affiliating, with Prospective Families, Fertility SOURCE Companies obtains the benefits of the connections and contacts of Prospective Families while Prospective Families obtains the benefits of The Donor SOURCE’s data base of over 1,200 egg donors and Fertility SOURCE Companies’ large and growing surrogacy division, The Surrogacy SOURCE, as well as the technical resources of Fertility SOURCE Companies’ specialized employees.
Read the full press release: http://www.fertilitysourcecompanies.com/fsc_news_122010a.htm
Egg Donors Happy They Helped Out: Study
Friday, October 29th, 2010Most women who serve as egg donors retain a positive take on their experience a year later, new research indicates.
Researchers polled 75 egg donors at the time of egg retrieval and one year later, and found that the women remained happy, proud and carefree about their experience.
“Up until now we’ve known that donors are by and large very satisfied by their experience when it takes place,” said study lead author Andrea M. Braverman, director of complementary and alternative medicine at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey in Morristown. “And now we see that for the vast majority the positive experience persists.”
Read the article: http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/644959.html
