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Donor Egg Mama
Are you considering donor egg IVF and feeling overwhelmed? For soul led women on a donor egg pathway to parenthood. Honest and heart felt conversations, diving into all of the topics around donor egg ivf and what it means to parent a donor egg conceived child.
Your host is Adele O’Connor an international educator, fertility coach, podcast host, best selling author and most importantly proud donor egg mama to her miracle son.
When women seeking to create family after years of heartbreak, grief and disappointment find themselves facing the loss of their own eggs and genetics and new challenges navigating the donor egg pathway she helps to fast track their knowledge with mind body connection strategies and a healing pathway. Her clients refer to her as a torchbearer for women on a donor egg pathway.
Adele hosts and produces a pioneering podcast lifting the veil of secrecy on all topics donor egg ivf.
Her mission is to share real stories from real women navigating family creation via egg donation.
She advocates and educates for families to have full transparency about their child’s conception story.
My wish is for these brave and courageous families to feel a sense of celebration and eradicate shame and secrecy and the stigma around donor egg third party reproduction.
Supporting families with the emotional part of this journey not only helps the parents but in turn helps our future children conceived via egg donation to feel proud of how much their parents wanted them and to celebrate their conception story.
Born in UK and living in Queensland with her loving husband and miracle child.
Donor Egg Mama
63. How to Tell Your Child About Their Anonymous Donor?
In this short solo episode Adele O'Connor proud donor egg mama and fertilty coach, discusses the best strategies for introducing donor egg children to their origin story. This episode was inspired by a question from her community: Once you have a child conceived via donor egg, how do you actually introduce this to them? My donor was anonymous and I have only very basic information about my donor. I don’t want my children to resent me.
You will learn:
- Addressing the fear of potential resentment from donor egg children due to the use of an anonymous donor.
- Providing resources and practical advice for making the conversation natural and age-appropriate.
Key Points:
- Start Early and Be Honest: Introduce your child’s story from a young age to normalize their unique origin.
- Use Resources: Utilize storybooks and professional support to help explain the concept in a child-friendly manner.
- Focus on Love and Openness: Emphasize love, validate their emotions, don't make it about you.
- Create an open environment for questions and emotions.
- Remember this is not just a one off conversation but an evolving dialogues that continues as your child grows and moves through each stage of development.
- Highlight the importance of integrating the story into family traditions and seeking professional support if needed.
- Encouragement to connect with other donor-conceived families for support and shared experiences.
Additional Resources:
Mentioned books: "The Pea That Was Me" by Kimberly Kluger-Bell, "The Search for the Magical Egg" by Becky Morrison, "The Journey to You" by Natalie Hart, the amazing series of books called My Donor Story By Sharon Le
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