Insider's Guide to Egg Donation (eBook)

A Compassionate and Comprehensive Guide For All Parents-to-Be

Erika Napoletano, Wendie Wilson-Miller (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
145 Seiten
Springer Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-61705-104-3 (ISBN)

Infos

2013 Gold Medal Winner IPBA Benjamin Franklin Award, LGBT CategoryEach year, over 7.3 million Americans face infertility. In their search for answers and alternative means for building a family, they turn to the nearly 500 reproductive specialty clinics across the US. Same-sex and single-by-choice parents are more prevalent than ever in the fertility industry and there is no definitive, up-to-date guide to help families of all types approach egg donation. Resources are fragmented, and thatIs true regardless of your family "e;type."e; Insider's Guide to Egg Donation, is the first how-to-handbook that helps families of all types navigate the less talked about but widely practiced egg donor landscape with a warm and friendly tone, giving those in need of a different kind of stork the answers and information they need as they begin to research family-building options. The Insider's Guide to Egg Donation Answers: What do I need to know about the medical process of using an egg donor? What are the latest reproductive medicine technologies that we should know about? What should I consider when choosing a fertility clinic? How should I evaluate potential egg donor agencies?

Inhalt

1. Egg Donation: The Basics
2. Filling Your Nest: Considering Ovum Donation
3. Beyond the Nest - When Hearts and Science Collide
4. How to Choose a Reproductive Clinic
5. How to Choose an Egg Donor Agency
6. Choosing Your Donor: Another View on "Natural Selection"
7. Circling the Nest: The Ovum Donation Cycle
8. Readying the Nest: Transfer
9. Leaving the Nest: Recipient Parents
Donors and Honest Questions
10. Everybody Builds a Different Nest: Issues Facing Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Single Parents, and International Recipients
11. The Nest of the Future: Emerging Technologies in Reproductive Medicine
Appendices

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.4.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
• ISBN-10: 1-61705-104-7 / 1617051047
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61705-104-3 / 9781617051043