This can be an upsetting day when you're trying to conceive. I’m not upset, but my feelings are more complicated than in years past.

Want to match with donors? There’s a group for that. Want to get advice from someone who's been through the process? There’s a group.

Sheltering in place is like driving a car. Hear me out. A few years back, I had a job in a city almost 2 hours away from where I lived.

I should start this post by saying that every medical and legal situation will be different, so the costs of EDA (or Embryo Donation) for...

Over about an 18 month period, I applied to seven separate fertility grant programs. I picked up the following while navigating that world.

"Loving a child and endeavoring to raise them into a good person seems like the ultimate act of hope. This is our act of hope."

Another day, another pregnancy announcement on Facebook, another “are you expecting?” postcard from my insurance provider in the mail....

Hi there! I’ve written before that TTC (especially for a researcher and planner like me) can turn into an all-consuming task. I am so...

I am a problem solver. A planner. If there is a question that needs to be answered, I want to address it immediately, usually by doing...

The following are a few common EDA terms I use (and some I don't)! Every family (and every donor-recipient relationship) is different....

Our journey to parenthood wasn’t undertaken on a whim. But moral superiority is a cold comfort when all I really want is to be a mom.

It's March 27th, 2020, and my spouse and I are getting ready to celebrate our 5th anniversary. It's Friday, and the much-needed end to a...

My spouse and I consider ourselves an online dating success story - so it only makes sense that we turned to online matching to build our...

As always, each situation and each family will be different. However, I wanted to catalogue the timeline of our donation and conception...

Sometime in the late Spring of 2018, my spouse Sami and I started talking more seriously about having children. Like most couples, it was...

“We’re going to conceive our child using privately donated embryos.” This statement is often met with a blank stare. My friends and...