Monthly Archives: January 2012

Spanish fandango

Posted on January 31, 2012 by oliviasview

A lot of DC Network members have children conceived at clinics in Spain…a country that must derive a huge amount of it’s foreign income from cycles of fertility treatment.  The laws are liberal in this country.  Much more so than … Continue reading →

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The difficulties of talking with friends and family

Posted on January 27, 2012 by oliviasview

It’s interesting how talking with family and friends about donor conception now seems to be much more of an issue than sharing information with the child concerned.  That is with DC Network members anyway.  I still get very frustrated with … Continue reading →

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We were promised sex, we got fertility

Posted on January 24, 2012 by oliviasview

So who saw How Sex Works last night on BBC3?  Tipped off by Laura Witjens of National Gamete Donation Trust http://www.ngdt.co.uk I decided to watch as she said it would include something about egg donation.  The trailer in the Guardian … Continue reading →

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Why are some clinics restricting information about donors?

Posted on January 22, 2012 by oliviasview

Choosing a donor is a big deal.  This has nothing to do with trying to create ‘designer babies’ and everything to do with stacking the odds so that a child is likely to broadly ‘fit’ in a family.  It is … Continue reading →

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Who is a parent?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by oliviasview

On Monday we sent out from the DC Network office invitations to our members for the national meeting on 17th March.  The title of the main session is Nature/Nurture: What do we really know?   This seems to have struck … Continue reading →

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Feel the fear and do it anyway guys

Posted on January 16, 2012 by oliviasview

Just because I wrote the Telling and Talking booklets six years ago and thousands have been downloaded or sold via DCN, I sometimes delude myself into thinking that no-one now fears sharing information with their children about donor conception.  I … Continue reading →

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Giving birth…to a booklet!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by oliviasview

To continue on the theme of new beginnings, I have just given birth to a new baby!  No, this is not my wonderful grand-daughter whose big blue eyes and chubby cheeks look out at me every time I open my … Continue reading →

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The real New Year starts here

Posted on January 10, 2012 by oliviasview

It’s funny how this week feels more like the beginning of the new year to me than last week did.  Apart from fun and festive time spent with family and friends the holiday period was dominated by working on our … Continue reading →

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Impact of culture on thinking about genetic connections

Posted on January 7, 2012 by oliviasview

It’s very odd being accused of not caring about genetic or biological connections when a lot of my time over the past twenty years has been spent fighting for the ending of donor anonymity in the UK.  This was so … Continue reading →

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Helping troubled families and thoughts on God and America

Posted on January 4, 2012 by oliviasview

Back in the office for the first time this year.  Not that I’ve been slacking, just working from home over most of the holiday period.  Seems like some people have been having a difficult time over Christmas as Nina and … Continue reading →

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