..and I invite our colleagues, clients, the donors we work with, friends and all others with commentary about egg donation to blog along with me as I share my perspective on collaborative reproduction. The canvas is blank not only for me but for the practice of egg donation, generally. In a field that is widely unregulated, ever-changing with advances in medicine and technology, forced by social standards to embrace an evolving definition of “family”….there is much to ponder, much to comment on and much that should provoke thought and response. Where shall I start?? Our recent mention in a Chicago Tribune article on the shortage of ethnic donors seems like an appropriate blog topic….except I really want to talk about a shortage of donors, ethnic or not, not only in the United States, but globally!   ….or how about the expanding definition of collaborative conception, a term that used to be synonymous with third-party reproduction but can, these days, include an egg donor,  a sperm donor and perhaps a surrogate resulting in, if we are counting….five party reproduction. Donor recruitment, now there’s a topic I have much to say about! A Donor Registry??I am meeting with colleagues in Chicago later this month to talk about the demand and the downside of tracking donor activity. Independent matches, donor concierge services, shared cycles, shared risk financing….there is so much to discuss and much more, I hope, to respond to as Prospective Families blog goes live.