Tell us about your donor

We are looking for comments about your egg donor selection. It’s going in the book we have been promising to write for a very…

Your DE Journey: Were you angry, pissed, resentful, or terrified?

Question of the day:

Have any of you when you began the journey of DE angry or resentful? Did you begin the process kicking and…

Do I Want an Open Identity Egg Donor?

By Diana Thomas
Founder & CEO, The World Egg Bank

The World Egg Bank consents all of our donors for open identity because of my own…

A Family is Anchored in Relationships, Not Genes

“I love personal stories about how intended parents make that leap to become parents via egg donation. Diana Thomas, Founder & and CEO…

Why you should sign up for a paid membership to the forums

Our already private forums have recently taken a new step to move to a paid subscription base. With a community of 3,200, this was…

Parenting after becoming a parent via egg donation

My son is almost 15 and a half. He is a classic teenager. Gone are the days of wanting to hang out with mom,…

What is it like to be a parent of a donor egg child? Taking the fear out of the experience.

I was recently asked to write an article about what it means to be a parent via donor eggs and to specifically address the…

Let’s get it right – Once and for all WE are our children’s mothers, not our egg donor.

This is an open letter to all of the amazing and terrific medical personnel that we depend on daily to help keep ourselves and…

Information Sharing: Privacy vs Secrecy

“I’m just not going to tell him. How he got here is not important. What’s important is that he’s here.”
“I am just going to…

A different approach to a frozen egg bank puts patients first

Our friends in Seattle at Pacific NW Fertility & IVF Specialists have shared with us a lovely article they wrote regarding their thoughts on…