Tips to improve your lining and self-care during your DE IVF cycle. So it's a super exciting time in your Donor Egg IVF journey, you've found your  wonderful donor, you've synchronised your cycles, her eggs have been collected and possibly tested and you are super happy and grateful that you have some wonderful healthy looking embryos to transfer. So of course you want to do everything and anything that you can to best prepare your womb lining for embryo transfer. So what helps?...

Think you can't get pregnant over 45? You're wrong. Let me tell you why you’re wrong! When you opt for a donated egg from a wonderful egg donor, your chances of pregnancy as a maturer mum increase dramatically. In fact I know many women who have become first time mums at 50 too. There are a myriad of reasons why rounds of IVF using your own eggs didn’t work, often for women tying in their 40’s the decline of egg quality is the main factor. When you opt for a donor egg pathway, you will be the...

Fears and insecurities when considering using a Donor-Egg Pathway. "I'm worried that I won't bond with my Egg-Donor conceived baby? I get asked this question a lot. Many women feel really worried about whether they will bond in the same way with a baby when conceived by donor eggs/ and or donor sperm versus own eggs/sperm. This worry can surface strongly when a woman is going  down an egg donor pathway for reasons of secondary infertilty. She has a child already with her own eggs and then has...

Fears and insecurities when considering using a Donor-Egg Pathway. But am I the ‘real’ Mum?   As a Fertility Coach specialising in supporting women considering a donor-egg pathway, I’ve heard this question voiced by many women.   This often links in with the fear of ‘will I bond with my donor conceived baby?’.   Does this one donated cell have the power to stop you feeling like the mum of your child?   The simple answer is no.   You are the Mum/Mom/Mama and will be...

When negative thoughts get in the way. Here’s a sneak peak into some of the panicky thoughts running through my head when I was in the thick of my donor-egg journey. Yep my hubby caught me in full worry mode one day during our donor egg cycle in Cape Town back in 2016. “What if Donor Egg IVF doesnt work?” “I can barely afford the costs of IVF, what if it doesn’t work?” “What if my child bares no resemblance to me or my husband, will my child feel like they belong in our family?” “What if even...