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Please be warned that some elements of these leaflets could be triggering for a DCP, especially the “Telling the Child” section. The leaflet is below, in pdf format:

1953: The first successful human pregnancy with frozen spermatozoa was reported in 1953.

The term “Snowflake baby” was coined in reference to unused frozen embryos (left over from other couples’ attempts to conceive through in vitro fertilization) that have been embryo “adopted” by families. These embryos are donated by couples who have completed their families and are seeking to “help” others build their families through embryo adoption.

Recipient Parents: What to do when your DC child tells you they’ve found out they are Donor Conceived… DO NOT CONTINUE TO LIE!!!! You will damage the relationship between your Donor Conceived son/daughter even further.

Consanguinity describes relationships between blood relatives, such as first cousins or closer. Consanguinity is important in genetics because close relatives share a greater proportion of their genes, increasing the risk of inheriting certain genetic conditions.

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It is widely understood that in UK licensed fertility clinics: