Egg Donation

Where to Start:

• Check out the following Creating a Family radio shows:

  • January 18, 2012: Choosing an Egg or Sperm Donor: Medical and Genetic Considerations

  • August 17, 2011: Legal Issues with Donor Egg, Sperm, and Embryos

  • May 25, 2011: Egg and Ovarian Tissue Freezing

  • February 16, 2011: What Every Patient MUST Know About Eggs and Embryos

  • Feb. 24, 2010: How to Choose an Egg Donor

  • Feb. 11, 2009: Are you Ready to Move to Donor Eggs or Sperm?

  • Sept 9, 2009: What 3rd Party Reproduction Can Learn from Adoption

  • Dec. 19, 2007: Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation

•  Other Creating a Family Resources:

  • Resource page for Avoiding Egg Donation and Surrogacy Fraud/Scams

  • Creating a Family Blog post titled To Know or Not to Know- That is the Question with Donor Egg or Sperm

  • Top Ten Questions to Ask Before Choosing an Egg Donor Agency

  • Top Ten Tips for Selecting a Donor

  • Creating a Family video on How to Choose An Egg Donor  

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Information and Resources:

• A fantastic video interview with a 16 year old that was conceived through donor egg.

• How to Select an Egg Donor Program

• How to Select an Egg Donor Agency 

• Tips for Choosing an Egg Donor 

• How to Select an Egg Donor 

• Donor Sibling Registry helps children conceived as a result of sperm, egg, or embryo donation to find and connect with half-siblings.

•  I saw this article on the front page of the New York Times and sighed.  The title, Meet the Twiblings, promised in my mind another one of those articles focusing on the new fangledness of third party reproduction: Gosh darn, look what they've done now.  I was sure it would start tongues wagging of designer babies.  Well, I was wrong.  This one is worth the read. A real story of a real mom through egg donation and surrogacy.

• What do I need to know about egg donation agencies? By: Amy Demma, Esq for Fertility Ties

• Attorneys, Contracts and Baby Making: What Donor Egg Recipient Parents Need to Know.  By Amy Demma, Esq for Fertility Authority.

• Using a Donor, You Need an Attorney by Amy Demma, Esq for The Fertility Advocate.

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Blogs:

• Hard Boiled: A Donor Egg Blog (When your ovaries don't know that 40 is the new 30) Her kids via egg donation are preschoolers.

• The Donor Diva  Expecting her baby via egg donation March 2010

• Out, Damned Egg! Out I Say!

• Golden Goose: An Egg Donor Blog- This is a blog by an egg donor, which I think is particularly good. She doesn’t blog often.

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Support Groups:

• Parents via Egg Donation is a great forum and internet community. Very active.  

• Looking to Be a Mom Thru Egg Donation

• Pregnancy and Parenting after DE IVF

• Inciid: Egg Donor Support Board

• IVF Connections Boards (Log in required)

• Carolyn's Boards: Third Party Reproduction

• Egg Recipient and Donor Board

• Surro Moms Online Egg Donor Board

• Egg Donation at IVFworld.Com

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