Learn more about the perspectives of people connected to donor conception through guest posts and other content featured on our blog.
Mary Sue Findlater shares her journey of using and selecting an egg donor and explains why she has always been transparent about her son’s origins.
Continue Reading Why I’m Grateful I Didn’t Have Any Orange M&Ms: Our Egg Donor Journey
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.
Casey Duncan is the recipient parent to two donor conceived people. One of them was “switched before birth.”
Continue Reading Switched Before Birth: How a mislabeled vial upended my family’s world
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.
Continue Reading My Donor Conception Nightmare: Fertility Fraud Leads to Accidental Incest
Commodification of donor conceived people is rampant in egg donor recruitment ads. One agency’s Barbie movie memes sparked outcry from the DCP community.
Continue Reading I’m a (Donor Conceived) Barbie girl, in a (Donor Conceived) Barbie world.
I cannot remember a time in my life that I did not know I was donor conceived. I was raised by the most amazing single mother and never lacked anything, but I was constantly reminded I did not have a dad.
Continue Reading My Journey of Discovery after Early Disclosure
I was born in London to two mums who used an anonymous sperm donor to conceive me. I was raised knowing my conception story, as it was talked about casually, and all my questions were answered to their best ability as I grew up.
Continue Reading Celebrating My Family as a Queer, Donor Conceived Recipient Parent
I’m sure I said, “It’s actually a ‘donor’ not a father.” I can remember my voice saying, “Our daughter doesn’t have a dad. She has two moms.” But much of that changed for me when I found out about my own donor conception experience.
“I joke with people that my first thought was, ‘I’ve been diluted.’ And as humorous as it may be to joke that finding out I was half white contributed to a sense of identity or cultural ‘dilution,’ it simultaneously created an incomparable sadness that took years to deconstruct.”
Continue Reading Incredulity, Anxiety, Yearning, and Other Emotions of Late Discovery
Eric turned to DNA testing to learn more about his complicated family history but his results yielded more surprises than answers.
Continue Reading Untangling the Vine: The Perspective of a BIPOC DCP
Guest blog by Peter J. Boni, author of Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination
Gratitude and grief are not mutually exclusive. It is not necessary to be grateful for your method of conception if it is intertwined with trauma or loss.
Continue Reading Gratitude and Grief Are Not Mutually Exclusive
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