Since 2003, I’ve been communicating with single women in many countries who are choosing to build a family on their own. This website will help you find the podcasts, articles, resources and events specially designed for our Choice Mom community.
Read more →Reproductive technology is offering us amazing new abilities to build families. Single women, LGBT couples, infertile couples, gay men. Surrogates, gestational carriers, sperm donors, egg donors, embryo donors. Birth families…
Read more →When we’re creating life using reproductive technology, it is nice to think that our carefully selected sperm, combined with egg thanks to the help of a fertility doctor and/or lab…
Read more →When you are feeling isolated, angry, depressed or confused about the Choice Mom path, the discussion boards have become a good place to vent and share. But sometimes we need…
Read more →I haven’t written lately about the wonderful resources that Dawn Davenport provides at her Creating a Family website — but she is a good colleague. She is the only one…
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Announcing the first-edition of the 2015 Choice Moms E-Guide: All About Eggs — a 47-page compilation of insights and Q&A on egg freezing, emotions of the donor egg journey, questions to ask before selecting an egg bank, and much more. Available for immediate PDF download using PayPal. This guide is for you if: you are…
Is there a right time, and a wrong time, to freeze eggs for future fertility? In this Choice Chat podcast episode, I talk with long-time Choice Mom-friendly psychologist Joann Paley Galst about the important window…
If adoption is an option you’d like to consider, there are many resources throughout this website. Here are a few: Profiles Marynell: saving for adoption Monica: my single parent adoption story Lorie: adopting from Russia…
The 2014 Choice Mom E-guide: All About Sperm (35 pages) offers everything you need to know about sperm and sperm banks, but might not know to ask. Such as: BIG PERK: a comparative chart of…
Jodi offered her story for the Choice Mom E-Guide: All About Eggs. — our new 47-page guide that covers everything from debating egg freezing and embryo donation to questions to…
Hello World! It’s me, little Lillia, writing to tell you the story of how I came to be. Mommy had her cancer surgery four years ago. Part of her decision-making…
by Rachel Lehmann-Haupt @rlehmannhaupt excerpted from DIY Mom: A Solo Parenting Adventure (Shebooks, 2014) On my 39th birthday, two years after I froze my eggs, I decided that if I…
