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Egg Donation

• 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 […]

• Egg Donation

  I’ll ask again, are those in need of ART wandering around uneducated?

  10.26.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Well, my last few posts have generated quite a bit of empassioned feedback from “infertility consultants” defending the need for “professional educators” to fill the void they feel left by clinical teams, attorneys, mental health providers etal in giving patients/clients a solid understanding of alternative family building options and issues.
  I returned yesterday from the RESOLVE of the Bay State […]

• Egg Donation

  Fertility Tourism???

  10.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Over the past 12-18 months there has been a buzz, made all the more loud by a recent episode of Oprah, regarding American couples going abroad, mostly to India, to pursue family building at what is being billed as a cost savings. At both the American Fertility Association conference and yesterday’s American Academy of Adoption Attorneys […]

• Egg Donation

  A Call to Colleagues: Will independent Professional Organizations Over-burden Prospective Parents with too much Choice??

  10.08.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This past weekend I had the pleasure of meeting with and advising more than several prospective parents about the choices they are faced with when pursuing alternative family building. Even though many of these folks came to hear me talk about egg donation, we began one round-table discussion comparing the choice of collaborative conception over […]

• Egg Donation

  Donor Compensation: What’s a Recipient Parent to think?

  03.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I recently read a beautifully written and perfectly balanced essay on donor compensation at: http://www.docshop.com/2007/11/13/miracle-or-madness-the-light-and-dark-sides-of-donating-eggs-for-money/. Often when clients first contact me they are concerned, perhaps even worried about the costs of family building through egg donation, even in my state of Massachusetts where often the clinical fees for the In Vitro Cycle, itself is covered by […]