Are You Considering Embryo Donation or Embryo Adoption? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
11/19/23
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The Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine has stated that the correct term for donating unused embryos to another couple for family building is embryo donation rather than embryo adoption. But since many people looking for information on this option continue to call it embryo adoption, we sometimes use both terms to aid in finding our materials. Further, there are a few adoption agencies that have an embryo donation program; they follow an adoption model, and they call it embryo adoption.
Resources:
- Embryo Donation
- Disclosing Donor Conception to Our Kids
- Suggested Books for Kids Conceived Through Donor
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Previous Episode
Triplets Separated at Birth
November 15, 2023
•51m
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You're really going to want to tune in to hear the story of triplets separated at birth through adoption. It is particularly interesting to hear how they have processed the experience differently and how they feel about adoption.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Kathleen’s (the birth mom) experience. Why did she decide to place two of the babies for adoption?
- When did you find out you were triplets?
- What was the agreement at the time of adoption about the degree of openness?
- Was this openness agreement followed, and how do you feel about that?
- The podcast focuses on the loss of the sibling connection. How did the separation affect each of you?
- How do/did Kendall and Julianne feel the loss of your birth mom and not being parented by her?
- Primal Wound?
- The focus in the podcast, understandably, was on the reunion of the three sisters. However, I’m curious about the reunion between Jules and Kenny and Kathleen, their birth mom.
- Feeling the odd one out?
- Donor conception? Who was the driving force behind finding the sperm donor?
- Did connecting with the donor fulfill anything for you?
- What are the lingering impacts of having been separated at birth?
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Next Episode
Sticky Situations That Arise During the Holidays
November 22, 2023
•55m
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Join us as we talk about various holiday-related situations that can arise with foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Our guests will be Janice Goldwater, MSW, the CEO of Paths for Families; Courtney Tierra, a birth mom, educator, and storyteller; and Christa Hefel, MPH with the State of Iowa Four Oaks Foster and Adoptive Family Connections, and foster mom and mom of 10 children through birth and adoption.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Incorporating very different traditions around the holidays. Differences in gift-giving styles.
- Managing expectations of gifts
- Incorporating birth family
- How do we handle grandparents/older relatives who are very vocal about current affairs, race issues, politics, government systems (foster system) in earshot of kids?
- Child is of a different religion or no religion. If the holiday is religious, how to handle with adoption or fostering?
- What do you do when grandparents show a clear preference for biological grandchildren?
- And we answer some of our listeners questions.
This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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