Valerie Bauman describes “Inconceivable: A Memoir” as part memoir and part investigative journalism, leading readers through her own journey to motherhood while looping in interviews from donors, recipient parents, donor conceived individuals, and reproductive professionals.
Before deciding to donate, it is important to ask the right questions to ensure that your contributions are used ethically and in accordance with your expectations.
A future recipient parent wonders about advice and resources available for entering into a known donor arrangement.
Casey Duncan is the recipient parent to two donor conceived people. One of them was “switched before birth.”
A recipient parent wonders how to fix a strained relationship with her child after failing to respond to the child's curiosity about the donor while growing up.
A recipient parent wonders how to discuss their child's donor siblings and when to establish a relationship.
USDCC joins others to express concerns about the potential implications of the Supreme Court of Alabama’s opinion in LePage v. The Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C.
When Victoria Hill took a commercial DNA test, she not only learned she was donor conceived but that her mother was the victim of fertility fraud. And that her high school boyfriend was her half brother.
A recipient parent wonders how and when to share donor information with young children who seem disinterested.
A parent wonders how to convince their wife that they should reach out to their sperm donors for the sake of their children.