Read stories from:

• Donor Conceived
• Adoptee
• Donor/Surrogate/Birth Parent
• Fertility Industry Professional
• Parent
• Partner/Friend/Other

Recent stories:

• Pregnant with a donor baby and feeling scared
• Emotional Overload
• My Story
• Not all bad
• Do WE Even Have Rights?
• Happy but curious
• In response to the dc person
• Let's Unite!
• A single moms wish
• Who am I?
• Parents accept their undying love for my other sibling
• INTERNET CONVERSATION ON A DONOR CONCEPTION DISCUSSION SITE
• Guilty Of Being Selfish
• Be careful
• Why?
• Dear,
• A Dad is Not a Father.
• Question for the reciepts about communication after
• Dear Mom: The Things I Will Never Have The Guts To Ask
• I already regret this.
• Thanks
• Confused
• Taking life day by day
• I have two moms. Is it wrong to wish i had a dad?
• Wronged
• I'll get through it
• To the Mystery Father that is Probably Better Off Without Me as I Write This.
• A Different Side to the Story
• Missing Links
• You can choose your friends, not your
• Had kids both ways
• Whatever you do for me without me
• Did Not Having a Dad Ruin My Life?
• So, so confused
• Lost.
• Response to Donor Father: Another DC Perspective
• YOU are not alone. YOU are not a freak.
• I've read your stories... I'm a MOM.
• My very own father
• To be Known
• I'm sorry, what?
• No one who was created from donor conception was ever wanted
• Casting Call for HBO documentary
• I have met my Donor Dad and I have 5 half donor siblings Western australia feb 2015
• Father's Day
• RE: Would you rather?
• @kids who have gay moms on this site, just like me!
• Just figured out my uncle is actually my father, and my mother is my aunt
• A message from an egg donor to the donor-conceived
• Would you rather?
• Today I Found Out.
• Science Owns Me
• Maybe one day you'll read this and know i was thinking of you all along.
• The Similarity I See to Fredrick Douglass
• I have two moms
• I See Myself in the Mirror
• Bittersweet Mystery
• wishing things to be different
• 1st donor cycle
• Choice & Knowledge
• With love, 120S
• Father N/A
• Response to re Donor Father
• RE: Response to What Would You Do?
• Response to second thoughts
• second thoughts - question
• Re Donor Father
• Response to What Would You Do?
• What would you do?
• Letter to my son
• The beautiful story of J and L
• Donor Father
• Blessed being a Donor!
• Collateral damage
• To My Daughter
• Massive Recall of Parental and Donor Consent
• Tiptoe-ing around the truth
• Too soon, and too fucking late.
• Re a concern like my donor
• Re Re just like my donor
• A concern re: Just like my donor
• Re: Just Like My Donor.
• Re In Re just like my dad
• Visibility
• In Re to Just Like My Donor
• just like my donor
• What I've found out at 14
• Telling Early and Often is Best
• To
• Single mom by choice
• Fatherless is a non-issue?
• To Adoptee vs donor child
• RE: RE: Deep thoughts for the donor conceived
• Response to: "Understanding the Infertile Perspective"
• Understanding the Infertile Perspective
• Re Re: To
• I've Never Known, and Now I Don't Care ...
• For: I feel scared and alone and confused from
• In response to "Is this my relative?"
• Is this my relative?
• I feel scared and alone and confused
• RE: To
• Thank you
• Grandparent of Donor children
• To
• RE: Deep thoughts for the donor conceived
• Deep thoughts for the donor conceived
• Driven Confusion
• Lets start a discussion
• Words of advice
• I'm the product of a my mother's egg and a sperm donor
• Passed down
• I have come to detest questions
• remaining anonymous isn't an option
• Confusion
• Adoption tore my family apart.
• The uncertain, unknown, and uncaring.
• No Progress
• I donated my semen -experiences and reflections
• Brood parasite
• So lost now........
• Result of love?
• RE:Thinking of Donating Sperm
• Dear Father
• RE: Maybe the Grass is Greener....
• Maybe the grass is greener...
• Rethinking fatherhood
• Donors have feelings too
• Love is Hate
• Using brother-in-laws sperm!
• I have a biological niece out there
• Being a donor was the biggest mistake of my life
• Searching for Ghosts
• Messed up sense of entitlement
• Opening the door
• my story :)
• It's been a long day
• I feel so alone in the world.
• Thinking of using Open Donor Insemination
• Egg Donation Documentary and Research
• To give life
• A Risky Decision
• Tree pose
• Thinking of Donating Sperm
• the other half
• Biological Father Unknown
• Survey
• Wondering
• More from 'An Almost SMC'
• Donor Sperm
• Regarding Cryo donor 7042 aka
• Adoptee v Donor Child
• Re: To: To: Future Authors: A message
• To: To: Future Authors: A message
• Proud to be a donor
• To: Whoever Wrote
• Turned out Ok, but..
• I want to be a mother.
• To: Future Authors: A message
• the truth revealed
• All men are created equal endowed with rights by their creator
• I am a new breed of bastard
• Identity
• I don't want to meet him, sorry
• RE: Positive Story, from a Real Dad
• RE: Raised by a single mother
• Raised by a single mother
• RE: Tell me donor children, what you think I should do?
• RE: Positive Stories?
• Positive Stories?
• Tell me donor children, what you think I should do.
• From an anonymous egg donor
• How can I find my dad?
• Ambiguity of Identity
• DE for 2nd Child right?
• Anger
• Don't lose hope
• Parent to be?
• Feelin weird....
• To: Parents of Donor Conceived or those thinking about it
• I wish I had thought this through
• Thanks to all of you for the raw but necessary truth...
• The Business of Humanity
• Am I ready for this?
• Too Many Parents
• COMMERCIAL SURROGACY EXPLOITS AND COMMODIFIES WOMEN AND CHILDREN
• Re: Before I do this
• Re: I am a *Would be* Grandparent
• Re: Before I do this-
• Re: Before I do This
• Re: Before I do This-
• After reading some of the stories here, I completely understand why my parents did not tell me.
• Re: Before I do this
• Before I Do This
• intended parent
• unwanted
• Who Am I?
• 30 is too late to find out
• Looking for Advice
• Embryo Ad & DC Parent
• Everyday
• Why is it ok for you to donate your own children in exchange for profit? Why?
• Nothing wrong with egg donation
• I wish they told me
• Letter to all parents - especilally to An almost 'SMC'
• I am a *Would be* Grandparent
• Hope
• @ Curiosity + My Story! and @ I HAVE A QUESTION
• My Story!
• Get on board and do what is right
• Curiosity
• @I have a question
• I have a question
• fraud
• My life is a lie
• Untitled
• Almost there..
• A gift is a gift - you don't take it back
• Pregnant with donor baby - mixed up and scared
• I Don't Agree
• Don't Romanticize Bio Fathers
• Story from birth parent of donor conceived child
• Responding to Backfire
• Appreciate Your Input
• Indian Biological Mother
• An 'almost' SMC
• Responding to Wonder
• Wonder
• Mom's Bad Meal
• I Just Want To Know.
• Never ending
• Lost
• Figuring Out
• Across the Ocean and Back
• Donation can backfire
• Egg Donor Regret, and what I didn't know at the time
• @ "Puzzling", a response
• donor father seeking children
• Puzzling
• There are other options, people...
• Child of lesbian parents
• Be a good parent!
• New BBC Documentary on Donor Conception
• Real Dad Part Deux
• Intentional Parenthood - Lessons in Logic
• Still on the search (LWC conceived 1985, born Aug 1986)
• My Unsaleable Semen
• Infertile Couple & Donor Sperm
• But i have my brother
• To All of My Progeny
• Synthesis of Loss
• Egg Donor
• Single mother in St.Louis Mo
• Anonymous Donor, Lost at Sea
• Feeling betrayed
• Seeking A Future Sperm Donor
• I donated eggs.
• To my child I will never know - I made a mistake
• Not knowing.
• Looking for Sperm Donors for Study
• The gift of family
• Unchanged
• Wondering
• I was conceived because of convenience.
• Mom of a donor egg child
• Twins
• Adopt, Don't Shop For Your Child!
• Build-A-Baby Workshop
• Proud, loving donor daddy... . .
• Getting a Life
• More than enough
• I'm WANTED.
• Primal luv: from a book wright
• Pretty Normal
• Update to
• So lost
• I feel so....alone...
• Ishmael
• A letter to Dad on Father's Day
• I found out a little too late
• Access Denied
• Don't
• Wanted Child
• Optimism and Confusion
• A lifetime yearning
• Proud to have donated
• My Forgotten Half
• OK
• Wondering
• Re: Italian Donor 13 Nov 2011
• History and Genes
• Meeting my donor-conceived half-brother
• A response to "donor"
• donor
• Perspective
• Telling the Truth Without Redefining Words
• Searching for Yehoshua
• Uncertainty is Killing Me
• Health of IVF Adults
• The many different feelings of different donors (answer to' spermdonor)
• Yesterday I got a phone call from the fertility institute
• My story for you...
• We have children...
• A Letter To My Father.
• The concern of a Donor for the Italian Cryokids
• Kids are our future! Proud to be a sperm donor.
• Did you know you were suppose to be equal?
• The Cup
• I have never met my donor 'father' and I have no desire to do so.
• I am a spermdonor
• My letter to the chairman of the inseminatincommitte
• Happy Egg Donor
• I worry about my daughter
• For 19 years now....
• Growing Up Without a Father
• Phoney Bastards and Quasi Marital kids
• It's scary to need a donor and read these stories.
• We used a donor and a surrogate to have twins
• Thankful for My Donor
• Proud donor wanting to offer info to children
• Happily ever after�
• A happy solution
• The Deception
• The best policy
• We Have to Change
• Concern for Potential Parents-to-be
• I love my Daddy
• Possible sources of children's discomfort.
• So wonderful!
• Choosing a known donor, a friend
• A positive story - for a change
• It all started out with lies-sperm donor story
• DI is never a good option
• Endocrine Disruptors
• Relief from the Real Problems: Followed by Regret
• Joys of being a Surrogate
• Years of Feeling Conflicted
• Joyful Egg Donor
• Contacted Donor
• Donor conceived child who is now able to trace the man who is supposedly my 'father'
• Finding the right balance
• What my mother told me
• Desperate for Child
• They said it was the best placement they'd ever had
• Isolation
• It was about truth
• Lies and Betrayal
• Don't drive yourself crazy
• The Dream
• Thankful to You
• Completely shocked!
• It's not a perfect world but it's my world
• Jaws of Life
• How My Mother Told Me
• I could not be a donor...
• The Missing
• Missing pieces.
• reproductive choice
• Alone
• Proud to say
• Why We Chose Donor Egg
• Beginnings And Ends ~ A Matter of Parental Choice
• Safety in Biology
• An Unselfish Act Of Love
• A Real Dad Speaks
• I have a right to know
• The politics of donor conception
• Thank you Ben and Jerry!
• Dear Anonymous Sperm Donor
• Filling Out The Story
• Finding Me In The Bathroom
• Dear Fertility Industry
• What it feels to be the partner of a sperm donor
• Oops, I sold my kid away...
• Chaos of Emotions
• Silence
• Lies