Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation

By Evelina Weidman Sterling, Ellen Sarasohn Glazer, Elen Sarasohn Glazer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849059012
• ISBN13: 9781849059015
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A well needed book!

Finally ~ A book for people deciding about egg donor. When I went through egg donor 5 years ago, there was VERY LITTLE info available, so this is wonderful to finally have a resource. Also, a woman commented on who in their 30's need egg donors. Actually, I was in my 20's and needed an egg donor. Many women have POF (Premature Ovarian Failure) and cannot have their own children, so this is the next best option.

Everything prospective parents need to know about using modern technology to create children through

Clinical social worker specializing in adoption, parenting, and fertility-related issues Ellen Glazer and certified health education specialist Evelina Sterling present Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation, a thoroughly practical and informative guide that provides, in lay terms, everything prospective parents need to know about using modern technology to create children through donated eggs. Chapters address the circumstances in which egg donation is an option; the laws, rules, and ethics for recruited-donor programs; common emotional issues and problems associated specifically with a pregnancy from egg donation; issues to deal with during parenthood of a child conceived through egg donation; and much more. A list of organizations and on-line resources rounds out this valuable, absolute "must-read" for anyone considering participation in an egg donor program or becoming parents through such a practice.

This is a terrific, highly readable book.

The authors are a wealth of knowledge, answering many questions while raising others. For anyone considering egg donation, this book is sensitive, hopeful and empowering. It will be a continuous reference and guide through every step of the process.

Wonderful & Informative for Those Suffering from Infertility

I highly recommend Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation to anyone who is going through the pain of infertility. The book is incredibly helpful and informative. I am planning on passing it on to my friends who are suffering from infertility with the hopes that this compassionate book will offer them guidance and inspire them to continue their journey to have a child.-- WENDY S.