Download or read book Let s Talk About Egg Donation written by Marna Gatlin and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Talk About Egg Donation was written by, for, and about families built through egg and embryo donation. It takes the reader on a journey--from infertility diagnosis, to pregnancy, to how to talk to your child about egg donation. Let's Talk About Egg Donation tells true stories of real families who are parenting via egg and embryo donation. Their stories are woven throughout the book to craft an informative, easy-to-read narrative that focuses on positive language choices. This is the first book written by parents through egg donation that gives you age-appropriate scripts for how to take the scary out of talking to your kids about the special way in which they were conceived.
Download or read book Before You Were Born Our Wish for A Baby Embryo Donation written by Janice Grimes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story book written in age-appropriate, loving language and tells the story of how a child came to be via Embryo Donation. The book is written for 3-5 year old children. Using bears as characters, the illustrations depict the typical day in the life of a child interacting with their parent. The text describes a baby conceived by in vitro fertilization using the egg and sperm of another man and woman. The embryo is then donated to the mother and father. The embryo is placed into the uterus of the mother, who then carries and delivers the child. This child is not genetically related to either the mother or the father. This book does not use the terms sperm or egg. It does use the term embryo donation.
Download or read book The Gift of Embryo Donation written by Irene Celcer and published by Graphite Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As outspoken in his day as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens are today, American freethinker and author ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL (1833-1899) was a notorious radical whose uncompromising views on religion and slavery (they were bad, in his opinion), women's suffrage (a good idea, he believed), and other contentious matters of his era made him a wildly popular orator and critic of 19th-century American culture and public life. As a speaker dedicated to expanding intellectual horizons and celebrating the value of skepticism, Ingersoll spoke frequently on such topics as atheism, freedom from the pressures of conformity, and the lives of philosophers who espoused such concepts. This collection of his most famous speeches includes the lectures: [ "The Gods" (1872) [ "Humboldt" (1869) [ "Thomas Paine" (1870) [ "Individuality" (1873) [ "Heretics and Heresies" (1874)
Download or read book Before You Were Born My Wish for A Baby SMC IVF Using Donor Sperm written by Janice Grimes and published by . This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gift of Sperm Donation written by Irene Celcer and published by Graphite Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope and Will fall in love, get married, and try very hard to have a baby before their doctor tells them that they need special baby-making seed from a sperm donor before Hope can become pregnant.
Download or read book Finding Our Families written by Wendy Kramer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive book that offers invaluable step-by-step advice for families with donor-conceived children. Wendy Kramer, founder and director of the Donor Sibling Registry, and Naomi Cahn, family and reproductive law professor, have compiled a comprehensive and thorough guide for the growing community of families with donor-conceived children. Kramer and Cahn believe that all donor-conceived children’s desire to know their genetic family must be honored, and in Finding Our Families, they offer advice on how to foster healthy relationships within immediate families and their larger donor family networks based on openness and acceptance. With honesty and compassion, the authors offer thoughtful strategies and inspirational stories to help parents answer their own, and their children’s, questions and concerns that will surely arise, including: How to support your children’s curiosity and desire to know about their ancestry and genetic and medical background. How to help children integrate their birth story into a healthy self-image. How to help your children search for their donor or half siblings if and when they express interest in doing so. Finding Our Families opens up the lives of donor-conceived people who may be coping with uncertainty, thriving despite it, and finding novel ways to connect in this uncharted territory as they navigate the challenges and rewards of the world of donor conception.
Download or read book Before You Were Born written by Janice Grimes and published by X, Y, and Me Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child conceived for female partners via intrauterine insemination, using donor sperm. This child is genetically related to the partner that uses her egg and the sperm donor. The story does not contain the words sperm, egg, or have any reference to sexual preference. The term donor is used.
Download or read book A Tiny Itsy Bitsy Gift of Life written by Carmen Martinez Jover and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A touching children's story of how a happy couple of rabbits have their own baby by means of egg donation"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Your Future Family written by Kim Bergman and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world’s leading authorities, a practical resource guide filled with the essential information you need to know about assisted reproduction Third-party reproduction is now easier, more accessible, and more successful than ever before, yet it is still a complex process. Before you start down this path to parenthood, there are important questions to consider such as, “How are sperm, eggs, and embryos screened?”, “How do I find a donor?”, or “What are the legal issues surrounding surrogacy?” Here, psychologist Kim Bergman—an expert in the field and a mother herself through assisted reproduction—provides the answers you need and more. Your Future Family provides a roadmap for navigating the journey of building a family through assisted reproduction. It outlines the very first steps you should take, the options available to you at each turn, and includes essential advice and tips to help set you up for success. Filled with personal anecdotes from Bergman’s own life, as well as the lives of her clients, this book brings the human element of creating a family this way to life. The definitive primer on assistant reproduction,Your Future Family provides a foundational knowledge of the entire process, includes essential facts, as well as a list of resources to help you along the way. Kim Bergman’s expertise and her open, honest approach will inspire confidence to fulfill your dreams of creating a family.
Download or read book The Pea That Was Me written by Kimberly Kluger-Bell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggling with how to tell your child about their egg donor?This acclaimed children's picture book (3-5 years old) makes it incredibly easy to start talking with your child about the special way they came into the world. Your child will want to hear about "the very kind egg donor" over and over again!Join parents worldwide who use The Pea That Was Me as a way to begin the on-going conversation about donors--reading and re-reading its extremely positive message about how much they were wanted by their parents and how lucky they were to find such a wonderful "helper."Psychotherapist and reproductive specialist Kim Kluger-Bell uses age appropriate language and clear but simple concepts that refers to the basic fact it takes an egg, a sperm and a "tummy" to make a baby; that Mommy's eggs weren't working quite right, and that's why Mommy and Daddy needed the help of "a very nice Lady who had lots of extra eggs and was happy to help."Why wait any longer? Start reading The Pea That was Me with your child today!
Download or read book Embryo Culture written by Beth Kohl and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this marvelously unconventional account of her struggles to bear children, Kohl leads the reader on an up-close tour of fertilization in America, and the ways in which science and miracle, technology and faith, converge to create life in the 21st century.
Download or read book Wish written by Matthew Cordell and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A parent's ode to "anticipatory joy," by Caldecott Award-winner Matthew Cordell. The sweet companion to Dream and Hope. As an elephant couple embarks on their life together, thoughts of children are far away -- at first. But as the desire for a child grows, so do unexpected challenges. And it's only after thwarted plans and bitter disappointment that their deepest wish miraculously comes true. This "deceptively simple" story celebrates the profound joy of becoming a parent.
Download or read book A Mother for Choco written by Keiko Kasza and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-03-19 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not. Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn't meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn't even think of asking Mrs. Bear if she's his mother-but then she starts to do just the things a mommy might do. And when she brings him home, he meets her other children-a piglet, a hippo, and an alligator-and learns that families can come in all shapes and sizes and still fit together. Keiko Kasza's twist on the "Are you my mother?" theme has become one of the most highly recommended stories about adoption for children.
Download or read book Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation written by Evelina Weidman Sterling and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation is a helpful, authoritative guide to negotiating the complex and emotive issues that arise for those considering whether or not to pursue egg donation. It presents information clearly and with compassion, exploring the practical, financial, logistical, social and ethical questions that commonly arise. This fully updated second edition also includes recent developments in the field, including travelling for egg donation and the emerging field of epigenetics. This book will be valued by all those considering or undergoing donor conception, as well as the range of professionals who support them, including infertility counsellors, psychologists, therapists and social workers.
Download or read book What Makes a Baby written by Cory Silverberg and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geared to readers from preschool to age eight, What Makes a Baby is a book for every kind of family and every kind of kid. It is a twenty-first century children’s picture book about conception, gestation, and birth, which reflects the reality of our modern time by being inclusive of all kinds of kids, adults, and families, regardless of how many people were involved, their orientation, gender and other identity, or family composition. Just as important, the story doesn’t gender people or body parts, so most parents and families will find that it leaves room for them to educate their child without having to erase their own experience. Written by a certified sexuality educator, Cory Silverberg, and illustrated by award-winning Canadian artist Fiona Smyth, What Makes a Baby is as fun to look at as it is useful to read.
Download or read book Recipes of How Babies Are Made written by Carmen Martinez-Jover and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the analogy of how a cake is made, this text explains how a baby is conceived, clearly explaining all the different forms of conception that exist. The text can also help parents introduce sexuality to their children at a young age.
Download or read book Three Makes Baby written by Jana M Rupnow Lpc and published by Rupnow & Associates. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
