For many young women, being an egg donor is an exciting and fulfilling experience that allows them to help someone create a family and be compensated for their time and effort. However, if you’ve only recently begun considering becoming an egg donor, you probably have a lot of questions and aren’t sure what to expect…
For LGBT couples who want to start a family, third-party reproduction often plays an essential role in turning that dream into a reality. Same-sex male and female couples each face unique challenges when it comes to biologically creating a child, which is what makes third-party reproduction necessary.
When using an egg donor, it’s not uncommon for intended parents to feel concerned about whether they will be able to bond with their baby. Some people worry that since they have no genetic link to the child, building a connection with their baby will be difficult or impossible.
As we enter a new year, taking stock of the past year’s ups and downs and preparing for a fresh start, some couples and individuals may be thinking of growing their family through third-party reproductive services — whether through egg donation, embryo donation, surrogacy, or sperm donation.
There have been improvements in conversations about infertility, egg donation, and surrogacy, but we still have a long way to go. In an ideal world, people working through fertility issues or choosing egg donation and/or surrogacy would be able to do so free from the stress of being judged or from ignorance.
Unless you and your partner are LGBT, it is unlikely that you expected to need third-party reproduction in order to build your family. The idea of needing an egg donor, a sperm donor, or a gestational surrogate can be difficult to adjust to initially—it’s not normally what people imagine when they think of having a…
