Fertility treatments can be stressful and emotionally draining for couples who are trying to conceive. Failed stimulation cycles, failure to fertilize, repeated failed IVF cycle and miscarriage can cause serious emotional fatigue and before you know it you are touching the boundaries of depression, maybe you have already stepped over that line. Family gatherings, such as holidays, baby showers and…
With the rise of increasingly sophisticated technology – such as facial recognition and DNA testing (23&Me, Ancestry, etc.), these innovations have almost eliminated the possibility of anonymous egg donation. If you think about it, if anyone in a donor’s family or extended family does a test and registers on one of these DNA testing sites, chances are good that a…
Journey Counseling Ongoing or journey counseling is the situation where a counselor starts from day 1, i.e. from before a pregnancy occurs, throughout the entire pregnancy and for a period after the pregnancy. The counselor frequently offers services to the intended parents and the surrogate. Essentially her job is to support all parties via counseling in order to keep the case on track. By predicting potential…
