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Everything you need to know about the egg donation process, supporting your donor-conceived child, and navigating your family-building journey.
A Complete Guide to Understanding Your Egg Donor’s Genetic Testing Results
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A Complete Guide to Understanding Your Egg Donor’s Genetic Testing Results

Choosing an egg donor? Understanding their genetic testing summary is key. Here’s what you need…

5 Things No One Tells You About Using Donor Eggs
Featured

5 Things No One Tells You About Using Donor Eggs

Using donor eggs to build your family can stir up more than just excitement—it may…

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Featured

​​The Shift Toward Openness: New Research on Talking to Children About Donor Conception

This article summarizes the findings from a 2024 comprehensive review of research on how parents…

Cofertility’s Fresh Vs. Frozen Egg Donation Program: Which is Right for Me?
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Cofertility’s Fresh Vs. Frozen Egg Donation Program: Which is Right for Me?

If you’re embarking on the donor egg IVF journey as an intended parent, one of…

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Featured

A Comprehensive Guide to Egg Sharing IVF

Egg sharing programs exist worldwide to help make fertility care more accessible. Egg sharing generally…

How gay dads decide on sperm choice when building a family
LGBTQ+

Whose Sperm Should We Use? How Gay Dads Can Decide What’s Fair

Deciding whose sperm to use can be an emotional and complex part of LGBTQ+ family…

Hopeful Gay Dads Deciding Whose Sperm to Use
LGBTQ+

How Hopeful Gay Dads Decide Whose Sperm to Use

For gay dads growing their families through egg donation, deciding whose sperm to use is…

Shared vs. Separate Egg Donor Cycles for Gay Dads
LGBTQ+

Shared vs. Separate Egg Donor Cycles: A Guide for Gay Dads

For gay dads pursuing egg donation, one of the first big decisions is whether to…

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LGBTQ+

8 LGBTQ+ Friendly Fertility Doctors

We created this curated list of LGBTQ+ Friendly Fertility Doctors across the U.S. who not…

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LGBTQ+, Infertility, IVF

Best Fertility Podcasts: Our Top Picks for IVF, Donor Conception, and LGBTQ+ Shows (2025)

Cofertility’s 2025 top picks for general IVF and trying to conceive, third-party reproduction, and LGBTQ+…

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LGBTQ+, Parenting, Surrogacy

“Who’s the Real Dad?” How Two-Father Families Can Respond to Nosy Inquiries

This article will explore why people ask two-father families nosy questions, how to handle them…

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LGBTQ+, Genetics

Understanding Genetics and Egg Donation: A Guide for Gay Dads-to-Be

For gay men embarking on the journey to fatherhood, egg donation and surrogacy offer a…

Dads
LGBTQ+

Parental Recognition: What Gay Dads Need to Know About Birth Certificates

Can a gay couple put both names on the birth certificate? Who is on the…

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LGBTQ+, Parenting

Preparing for Parenthood as a Gay Couple Using Donor Eggs: Tips from a Fertility Psychologist

If you are a single cis male or in a same-sex male relationship, you will…

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