We recommend that all Recipient Parents (RP’s) listen to: You Look Like Me: Season 3, Episode 2 “Now She Knows”.
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…
“I’ve got something to tell you” – when the DC jig is up!!
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.
If your donor conceived child was conceived before 1991 you are entitled to two free counselling sessions at the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. These two free counselling sessions are available to ANYONE 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.
Hayley is a late-discovery donor-conceived person and also has donor-conceived twins: All Things Donor Conception by Hayley King