egg donor

This podcast discusses who are typical egg donor candidates and also describes the screening process to be an egg donor and give the gift of life!

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Katie and Sarah catch up about freelancing, how social media is transforming the creative industry. Then Sarah gives a detailed account of her experience with fertility clinics, choosing a donated egg, and in vitro fertility. 

Sarah’s on a classic Lady Journey: becoming a Mom! Join us for an update on Sarah’s progress through the first trimester, including some of the pregnancy details that no one ever talks about!

For the first time, the average age to have kids has surpassed 30. Children are getting more expensive, people are living longer, and potential parents are focusing more on their careers. This poses a unique, but severe personal problem. The older people get, the more likely they are to have pregnancy complications. The solution is to freeze the eggs, but that’s expensive, and not top of mind for those in their 20s. CoFertility is creating an ecosystem that lowers the cost and increases the accessibility of egg donation. In todays episode we talk with Lauren Makler, the co-founder of CoFertility, about:

👶 Why doctors are twice as likely to face infertility as the general public

👶 Launching Uber in States Across the Country

👶 How CoFertility is Reducing the Cost of Egg Donations

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and CEO of Surrogacy Mentor , along with Marielle Schuberth, Intake Coordinator for Surrogacy Mentor and 3 time surrogate, as they share their personal experiences as surrogates and 5 Awesome Reasons to Become a Surrogate.

Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion!

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Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and CEO of Surrogacy Mentor , along with special guest, experienced gestational surrogate, Nasharra Matthews, as they discuss: 

• What first interested Nasharra in gestational surrogacy?
• How did her partner and family feel about her becoming a surrogate?
• Why she feels working with an agency is crucial for a successful journey
• Why she feels surrogacy is still taboo in the African American community
• What is it like being pregnant with someone else's baby?
• What is her relationship like with the parents?
• How the experienced surrogates at Surrogacy Mentor navigate these questions and more 

Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion!

• Follow Surrogacy Mentor on Instagram , Facebook, YouTube and TikTok
• Take our easy 2 minute surrogacy quiz to see if you qualify!
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• Contact us with questions or comments at hello@surrogacymentor.com

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and CEO of Surrogacy Mentor , along with special guest Stephanie Levich, Founder and President of Family Match Consulting, as they discuss: 

• Stephanie's personal origin story as an adoptee and how her parents shared her story with her (and how she later connected with her biological family).
• Why it's so important to be honest and transparent with children about their origin story.
• Why Stephanie wrote a book for children about this important topic
• How Stephanie helps prospective parents down the family building path that is right for them.
• How the experienced surrogates at Surrogacy Mentor navigate these questions and more. 

Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion!

• Follow Surrogacy Mentor on Instagram , Facebook, YouTube and TikTok
• Take our easy 2 minute surrogacy quiz to see if you qualify!
• Share this podcast with the hashtag #NormalizeSurrogacy
• Contact us with questions or comments at hello@surrogacymentor.com

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How they knew they might face fertility issues and what they were willing to do in order to create a family.
2. This family’s tips for getting through the fertility process intact as a couple and sharing the hardships and celebrations with one another.
3. What they did to support each other in this journey and why they didn’t allow outside stressors to deter them from their goal of children.
4. How they sustained the romance and intimacy in their relationship in the midst of their fertility process.
5. Their suggestions for dealing with their individual grieving processes and why supporting one another through them was absolutely crucial.
6. Why avoiding assumptions about one another’s feelings allowed them to solve problems together.
7. This family’s advice for facing infertility and the reason you should never give up.

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This week the Mocha SMCs speak with Mocha SMC Domonique who is both an egg donor and a new mom herself. Domonique describes what it was like to donate eggs in her 20s while she was in school, how this has impacted her feelings on being an SMC herself, and her thoughts on contact in the future from the children conceived with her donor eggs.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. What biotransport is and how it is used in the fertility world.
2. Why timing and safety are crucial to the fertility process.
3. The most important thing to remember when it comes to transporting samples and embryos.
4. How biomaterial is transported and why hand-carrying it is preferential to cargo shipment, specifically when transporting internationally.
5. The step-by-step process of transporting the biomaterial.
6. Peter’s background with biotransport and how he landed in the industry when it was just beginning.
7. The reason it’s so important for biomaterial to be handled with care and the numerous mistakes he’s seen over the years.
8. The story of how his company began and why there was such a need for its services.
9. Peter’s list of questions you need to ask at the start of the process to avoid tragic mistakes.
10. Why you should undergo infectious disease testing before embryo creation.
11. The questions Peter recommends asking when speaking with a biotransport provider.
12. The reason you want the expertise of a reputable biotransport company and why the expense is worth the cost.

Connect with Maria Feekes here:

mariafeekes.com

facebook.com/mariafeekes

instagram.com/mariafeekes

youtube.com/channel/UCWSEMH4ce2qkzW4mf4o0I6A

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