The use of donated eggs and sperm has long been an option for family building for both individuals and couples. For many recipients, the use of a donor can often follow unsuccessful IVF treatments and for others, it may be a reproductive choice as a solo parent or as a same sex couple.
Deciding to have a child with the help of donor sperm, donor eggs or donor embryos involves many considerations. The choices you make along the way can have lifelong meaning and implications for you and your child. Having the opportunity to discuss and explore your individual thoughts and feelings about door conception with a Specialist Fertility Counsellor, can help build confidence and clarity in your decision making, whether that’s deciding if donation is right for you or if you are preparing to start sharing your family story with you child.
Fertility Counselling Care provides a number of specialised, personal, and confidential consultation sessions for you depending on what stage you are at in your donor conception family story. They consist of a blend of psychoeducational content and supportive specialist fertility counselling.
Implications Counselling
Implications Counselling is a consultation where you can explore the legal, ethical, and emotional implications specific to donation for you as intending parents and for your potential child. Implications Counselling is greatly beneficial in helping individuals and couples decide if donation is right for them.
Starting Your Family Story of Donor Conception
This specialist service provides a comfortable and confidential space to explore your personal thoughts and feelings as you prepare to start your family story of donor conception with your child. Through identification and exploration of how and when to tell your child, this space and time is about helping you grow in confidence and to practise what you might say to your child, family, and friends.
Fertility Counselling Care has the knowledge and experience of working with individuals and couples who have explored and conceived using a donor for over 10 years. We understand that you will have many questions about donation and what it means for you as individuals, as a couples, for your potential child and as a family. Talking to a specialist fertility counsellor can help you explore all these questions, and it can help you develop a different perspective about donation.
You may have many questions in relation to donation you would like to ask. Our Egg & Sperm Donation Counselling provides a safe and confidential space for you to ask and explore such questions as:
What is egg donation and sperm donation?
What is the difference between anonymous donation and identifiable donation?
How do I choose an egg donor or sperm donor?
Will my egg donor or sperm donor look like me?
How many donor egg or donor sperm cycles will it take before success?
Will my baby look like me?
Where do egg donors and sperm donors come from?
Do egg donors and sperm donors get paid?
How do I tell others?
How do I tell my child?
.At Fertility Counselling Care we provide Implications Counselling and Supportive Counselling for anyone;
Considering Egg Donation, Sperm Donation, Double Donation, Embryo Donation
Receiving treatment with egg or sperm donation
If you have conceived, are pregnant or have a child with the help of egg donation or sperm donation.
If you are thinking of adding to your family with the help of egg donation or sperm donation
If you have had unsuccess with egg or sperm donation
If you have had a diagnosis specific to male reproduction or female reproduction
If you are thinking of using a donor and are receiving treatment in an Irish clinic it is mandatory for all donor recipients to meet with a Specialist Fertility Counsellor for Implications Counselling. At Fertility Counselling Care we provide this service for anyone who requires it for their treating clinic. If you are considering treatment abroad, Implications Counselling is still a relevant and valuable consult to have as an additional support for you.
At Fertility Counselling Care we understand Egg Donation and Sperm Donation and the implications of this treatment for you and your potential child. We have the knowledge, experience, care, and compassion to help and support you in a safe and confidential way.