Accepting Your Donor Conceived Child

Picture it: you planned to meet someone at a party, only to arrive and realize they are not there. Do you go from room to room looking for them? Or step back outside to wait for them? Does it make you feel uneasy being amongst others who clearly know each other at...

Why the Secrecy?

There are many adults and children living in the U.S. and the world who are a secret. No, they aren’t spies, nor are they hidden away. What is secret being how they came to exist. Donor conception has been around since the 1880s, and there are no signs of it slowing...

Talking with Your Child about Embryo Adoption

Adoptive parents are often anxious about how to talk to their adopted child about his or her adoption story. Even if parents have been very intentional to always speak of adoption in a positive light, there’s always a nagging worry in the back of their minds: Are we...

Embracing Differences in Your Donor Conceived Child

Embryo adoption allows families to experience pregnancy and give birth to their adopted child. However, because you are carrying someone else’s embryo (in other words, a donor embryo) your child will have genetic differences. This reality often scares potential...

How Safe is Your Secret?

What are the two primary ways people think about conception secrecy? 1. How does secrecy help or hurt your child’s development as a person? 2. Everyone believes their secret will always remain a secret – but it doesn’t! Today, let’s focus on the likelihood of your...
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