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There are many egg donors who have experienced hair loss, thyroid and other hormone imbalances such as weight gain, sciatica pain, muscle loss, infertility, PCOS, endometriosis, cancers. Ovarian Hyper Stimulation Syndrome (OHSS) is a complication of fertility treatments, particularly IVF, where the ovaries become enlarged and release fluid into the body. It can range from…

This is an outright lie that historical fertility clinic “doctors” and staff told historical Recipient Parents. We are seeing, as the number of Donor Conceived People in the UK who KNOW they are DC rises, that nearly all historical Recipient Parents of DC children who were conceived using anonymous sperm, were told that the anonymous…

Regulated Gamete Donations The Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority (HFEA) advises that there are now more than 85,000 Donor Conceived People (DCP) who have been conceived through UK licenced clinics since 1st August 1991, when the HFEA was created. This number doesn’t take into account those DCP who were conceived before the HFEA was created in…

The psychological distress of large sibling groups/pods The Guardian Aug 2024: ‘You feel a bit mass-produced’: donor-conceived people on the export of UK sperm Listen to: You Look Like Me, Season 1, Episode 3 “Memories Missed” Listen to: You Look Like Me, Season 1, Episode 5 “The Adventure Continues”

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 child even further. Listen to: You Look Like Me: Season 3, Episode 2 “Now She Knows”.

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. Listen to: You Look Like Me: Season 1, Episode 2 “Does She Look Like Me?” Listen to: You Look Like…