Many parents and parents-to-be choose to give their egg donor a gift after the egg retrieval. They feel that their egg donor should be recognized as the compassionate woman she is, donating her eggs to help the recipient parent achieve a pregnancy that they could not otherwise achieve. For many recipient parents it’s a way…
The definition of Consanguinity is: of the same blood or origin; specifically: descended from the same ancestor. Many intended parents who embark upon the path of family building through egg donation have asked the question: “Is it possible my child could meet, fall in love with and marry his or her half-sibling?” And the answer…
When we embark upon creating our families via egg donation there are so many things to consider and decisions to be made. As we pour through egg donor profiles we look at the following and decide what’s important to us.
Q : My clinic offers egg donors for a nominal fee. Why should I work with an egg donation agency and pay more when I can use an egg donor that my fertility doctor or IVF center recommends?
It’s the beginning of the new year! That means typically new starts and fresh starts! Unless you are suffering from infertility, and that means we’ve been there–done that more times than we care to remember. We’ve all read the blogs around the internet – “The holiday season can be exceptionally stressful” – You think? Well…
We always knew that Vitamin D was important. We also learned as recently as a couple of years ago that the majority of the population was Vitamin D deficient. According to a study published in the May issues of the journal of Epidemiology as well as appearing in the NY Times — low levels of…
