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Sullivan Family
Same-sex parents through open embryo donation.
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Keira
Apr 27, 20203 min read
The Costs of EDA
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...
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Keira
Apr 25, 20203 min read
What I've Learned About Grants
Over about an 18 month period, I applied to seven separate fertility grant programs. I picked up the following while navigating that world.
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Keira
Apr 20, 20203 min read
Our Act of Hope
"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."
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Keira
Apr 18, 20204 min read
Bitterness, Queerness, and Pregnancy
Another day, another pregnancy announcement on Facebook, another “are you expecting?” postcard from my insurance provider in the mail....
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Keira
Apr 13, 20202 min read
10 (Non-TTC) Facts About Me
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...
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Keira
Apr 11, 20203 min read
The Trap of Over-Planning
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...
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Keira
Apr 4, 20203 min read
Embryo Donation Terminology
The following are a few common EDA terms I use (and some I don't)! Every family (and every donor-recipient relationship) is different....
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Keira
Mar 30, 20203 min read
Grief in Queer Conception
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.
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Keira
Mar 27, 20202 min read
The World is on Fire. I Still Want a Baby.
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...
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Keira
Mar 22, 20202 min read
Private Embryo Donation - When is it a Match?
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...
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Keira
Mar 17, 20203 min read
Timeline of an Embryo Donation
As always, each situation and each family will be different. However, I wanted to catalogue the timeline of our donation and conception...
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Keira
Mar 8, 20203 min read
Deciding to Become Embryo Recipients
Sometime in the late Spring of 2018, my spouse Sami and I started talking more seriously about having children. Like most couples, it was...
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Keira
Mar 1, 20203 min read
WTF is EDA?
“We’re going to conceive our child using privately donated embryos.” This statement is often met with a blank stare. My friends and...
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