When we think about whether donors should be able to help more than ten families, we assume that this only relates to sperm donors. But one Aussie egg donor is proving that wrong. Faith Haugh is an office worker from Altona, near Melbourne. She became an egg donor 18 years ago and to date her …
Monthly Archive: September 2011
Sep
19
More Letters to our donor
Do you have a donor conceived child? Would you write an entry for a book that the NGDT is publishing – a collection of thank you “letters to our donor”? Since many donations are anonymous, people never get to say thank you in person. We know that donors really value that ‘thank you’ and most …
Sep
12
Review: Donor mum, the children I never met
by Dr Ruth Curson, Trustee The “Donor Mum” documentary was a well worked out and informative television programme. It was also warm and touching. It explained that donors before 1991 were not registered so that the offspring could not trace the donor. It explained that recipients were advised by clinics not to tell their children …
Sep
12
Donor – mum?
The recent BBC documentary Donor Mum showed the journey one egg donor took to meet the twins born from her donation. Sylvia, who has a donor-conceived son herself, was driven by a need to make contact – but is her approach representative of all donors? During the documentary she makes comments about her confusion surrounding …
Sep
05
Living on a prayer again!
Adam and Eve were grateful to receive the card and teddy bear that I had sent for Cain. They dropped a thank you card at the BCRM and took the little fella to meet the staff. The nurses tell me he is absolutely gorgeous, but I bet they say that about all the donor conceived …
Sep
02
Not so much a missing piece… more an additional piece
Today we are delighted to welcome guest blogger Olivia Montsuchi of the charity DC Network, reviewing Monday night’s BBC features on egg donation. One of the many things that struck me when watching the very sensitively filmed documentary Donor Mum: the children I have never met last night, was how openness between parents and children …