1. Don't miss these ChoiceMoms.org articles:

• Our donor "egg" keyword
• Our "IVF" keyword
• Paula's story
• My life as an egg donor
• Learning about egg donor options in Europe

2. Don't miss the great resources at CreatingAFamily.org, including the radio show "What Every Infertility Patient MUST Know about Eggs and Embryos." It is Dawn Davenport's interview with Dr. Michael Tucker, embryologist for Georgia Reproductive Specialist and Shady Grove Fertility. Description: Healthy eggs and embryos are the key to success in fertility treatment, but most of us know very little about them. Dr. Tucker has been a full-time clinical embryologist since 1983. His list of first’s is impressive: first intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) birth in the United States, first birth resulting from a testicular biopsy in the US, the first birth in the world from frozen donor eggs, and the first pregnancy in the world from immature eggs that were matured after thawing in the IVF lab.

3. American Fertility Association continues to build an excellent library of information. No need for ChoiceMoms.org to reinvent the wheel here, when AFA.org does such a good job. Most are geared toward married couples, of course, but for medical insights their article library here covers many great topics. Some recent articles:

• Legal complexities of egg donor contracts
• When is it time to move on to another option, video from Dr. Jim Toner, an Atlanta-based RE who has worked with ChoiceMoms.org in our "Ask the Fertility Expert" series
• Understanding your IUI vs. IVF choices (video)
• The slightly older women's guide to getting pregnant (video)
• How many is too many? Video advice on embryo transfers.
• Transitioning from IVF to egg donor (video)
• Single embryo transfers: fact sheet from Bill Petok, Maryland-based therapist who talked with women at our 2009 D.C. event
• Excellent fact sheet on choosing an IVF center
• Does insurance cover this?

AFA, and several other great sources (Creating a Family), offer wonderful resources about adoption as well. These resources will be covered in a different post under our "adoption" keyword. They also have wonderful fact sheets about surrogacy, much more on egg donation, and growing information for the LGBT community.

I'm hoping to work with AFA and other organizations on marketing Choice Motherhood as an option for the many single professional women in their mid-30s who don't yet realize that this journey can be a powerful step to take toward their goal of building a family. As Dr. Benjamin Gocial, of RMA Philadelphia, said at our Choice Mom networking event in Philadelphia in April 2011, he really wishes more women would consider Choice Motherhood before they do, so they can achieve their goal of conception before it becomes so difficult physiologically to do so.

-- Mikki