Best Practices for telling your adult Donor Conceived child that they are DC
Recommendations for how to support your late discovery donor conceived loved one
Some of the challenges of being Donor Conceived…
What NOT to say to a Donor Conceived Person!
Other Support for Recipient Parents
If you are a UK Recipient Parent, regardless of when, how or where your Donor Conceived child was conceived, we recommend reaching out to the Donor Conception Network.
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust provide two free counselling sessions to ANYONE (including Recipient Parents) impacted by historical donor conception practices pre 1991: https://www.uhliverpool.nhs.uk/services/service-finder/donor-conceived-register (the counselling link is at the bottom of their web page, under the “More Information” section).
Donor Conceived Best Practices and Connections: This is an excellent Facebook group for donor conceived people, donors, recipient parents and those considering donor conception.
We recommend the following book for historical recipient parents ‘Experiences of Donor Conception: Parents, Offspring and Donors through the Years‘ by Caroline Lorbach, ISBN 1 84310 122 X (Jessica Kingsley Publishers Limited)
We also recommend that recipient parents read or listen to Brave New Humans by Sarah Dingle.