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Donors

• Donors, Egg Donation, infertility

  Let’s Talk About Genetic Half-Sibs

  07.28.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• Donors, Egg Donation, Premature Ovarian Failure

  I Need a Donor, Now! or How Cancer can Change a Donor Search

  07.13.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• Donors, Egg Donation, infertility

  Prospective Families, an Independent Egg Donation Agency Supporting Patients at a Dozen + Clinics across the North East

  07.05.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• Donors, Egg Donation, infertility

  I was not donor conceived!

  05.21.10 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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 […]

• Donors, Egg Donation

  Prospective Families talks Donor Compensation

  05.12.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• Donors, Egg Donation

  More on Egg Donors and Compensation…

  04.19.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]