Let’s talk about egg donor conceived children and the very real expectation that a child whose parents relied on an egg donor for family building is likely to have a significant number of genetically related half-siblings. Let’s talk about what we can be doing, as professionals, to learn from sperm-donor conceived children. How can we […]

 
As professionals involved in the field of fertility, we often hear our clients say, “I just didn’t know”. They didn’t know about the age at which fertility begins to decline, they didn’t know how expensive advanced fertility treatments can cost, they didn’t know how difficult it can be to adopt, they just didn’t know how […]

In the summer of 2008, a young woman called needing assistance in finding her ideal egg donor. The woman was in her mid-thirties, her husband not much older. The diagnosis was Premature Ovarian Failure. The woman had very specific and quite detailed criteria, she would settle for nothing less than a donor who offered all […]

In a piece I recently wrote for Fertility Ties, an on-line community of reproductive professionals who provide expert advice on all things ART, I addressed with the reader (most likely IVF patients considering collaborative reproduction for family building) information about “agencies” and the role such an entity can play in a prospective parents family formation […]

It occurred to me this morning when posting a reply to the American Fertility Associations latest blog on disclosing to one’s child his or her conception story and after having posted a reply to Andy Vorzimer’s blog on  inappropriate speculation about Kelly Preston’s newly announced pregnancy that I had a thing or two about my […]

Last night, World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer aired a story about egg donation compensation; unfortunately, the story was the same we see perpetuated by so much of the media, the ever-present story about the high demand for and big bucks offered to donors of certain physicality and/or academic status. One ABC News staffer, posing […]

The post below was a comment that I added to a blog post from colleague Pamela Madsen, The Fertility Advocate, entitled The Egg Donation Dilemma – Compensation Vs. Enticement. Her original post can be found on her website, www.thefertilityadvocate.com
Amy Demma 4.19.10: Thanks for writing on such an important topic, Pam. To clarify, according to ASRM Guidelines and […]

Sometimes, with all of the focus and commitment and determination that is required of family building efforts, we lose the perspective that our journey is worth sharing and that the experiences of others struggling with infertility just may have something to offer the next Intended Parent…..and sometimes, we just need to have a little fun with this […]

In the January 25th edition of The Boston Herald, a side-bar to two articles for which I was interviewed discusses a West Coast couple advertising at MIT for a donor and offering her a compensation of $35,000.00. I am not sure where to begin my commentary on this couple’s determination to recruit a “genius Asian egg […]

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