What do I need to consider when considering using a donor to start my family?
Donor Conception and Surrogacy9 Feb 2022

What do I need to consider when considering using a donor to start my family?

Donor Concierge finds egg donors and surrogates and helps people with all that comes with it. I wanted to hear from Gail Sexton Anderson about how the 12-year organization works and it's pretty special the lengths they go to to find a match.

Gail talked to me about how when she first started working with Intended Parents (IP's) she could see how it was such a big leap to go from being able to have a biological child to working with a donor that they needed a good support network along the journey and she created her organization to provide just that.

She describes how she wanted people to feel comfortable moving forward, especially if they were from a particular ethnic group and wanted a specific match. There was no reason or them to feel marginalized as to what was available

Gail is passionate about educating people, saying how 'people don’t know what they don’t know' IP's will go into it with certain assumptions and there are so many hills and valleys and pitfalls that people run into, we can help navigate those pitfalls"

Donor Concierge has a toolbox of how to deal with it. Gail explains how they advise IP's to not get their heart set on one person. She explains how there’s always going to compromise…

Her staff is trained to talk through the process. Obviously, as Gail explains 'We can’t make the decision for them but we can help them to answer some of the questions or find out more information to help make a decision

It's important to know that donor databases don’t change dramatically there will always be new candidates and it takes the Donor Concierge about 2 weeks to go through over 80 agencies and share the possibilities with IPs.

To follow Donor Concierge on Twitter follow them here

The Agency of All Agencies - Gail Sexton-Anderson by I Want To Put A Baby In You via #soundcloud https://t.co/MvFx2DsuWz— Donor Concierge (@DonorConcierge) February 28, 2018

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