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Making Joy

A Journey to Finding Joyful Meaning & Purpose in Life

Category: Fertility

The fertility journey is a tough one for everyone who embarks on it. After a difficult 4 year period filled with many disappointments, we were blessed with our miracle baby conceived via an egg donor IVF cycle in 2019. I’ve written various posts to address questions specifically pertaining to egg donor IVF cycles as there was little to no information I could find as a potential egg donor recipient parent in 2017.

I’ve divided my fertility posts into Egg Donor IVF specific posts and General Fertility Support posts. The Egg Donor IVF posts are listed from an introduction of the egg donor process to more specific questions prospective egg donor parents may have.

If you have a question or suggestions for additional fertility related topics, send me a message! I love interacting with readers and writing about what YOU want to read about.

Best of luck on your fertility journey.

Egg Donor IVF Support

  1. My article published in Your Tango! Why (And How) We Chose To Use Donor Eggs To Conceive Our Miracle Baby
  2. Is an egg donor cycle right for you in your IVF journey?
  3. How to select your egg donor – elements to consider when you are deciding which donor eggs to proceed with.
  4. Reservations about the egg donor IVF cycle/your egg donor
  5. Sharing your egg donor IVF story with your child, friends, family, public
  6. How I am telling my son his special egg donor IVF story

General IVF Support

  1. Pursuing your career and IVF
  2. Marriage & Infertility
  3. Coping with the emotional roller coaster that is IVF – Fertility Life Coaching as a Coping Mechanism

Latest Fertility Blog Posts

Fertility / July 27, 2023

Does Manifesting Your Miracle Baby Really Work?

Hello, friends! I have taken a long hiatus from blogging, but I’m back and I’m so excited to be writing…

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Fertility / May 16, 2023

Fertility Life Coaching as a Coping Mechanism in your Infertility Journey

Knowing how to mentally cope during the infertility journey is half the battle. Have you found yourself in any of…

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Fertility / May 4, 2023

Marriage & Infertility – How to have a strong & thriving marriage during IVF

If the infertility journey weren’t already challenging enough, there is another critical element to take care of during the arduous…

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Fertility / April 15, 2023

How I am telling my egg donor conceived son his special story

A few months ago, I wrote a blog post about telling your egg donor IVF story to others – friends,…

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Fertility / April 1, 2023

Why I am glad I didn’t quit my career while persevering on my IVF journey

My fertility journey began in 2017. Every year of the infertility long haul journey sucks and each will have its…

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Fertility / February 17, 2023

How much will you share about your egg donor story to friends, family, the general public, and eventually your egg donor conceived child?

I decided to write this post after someone, who is also using donor eggs and is early in their journey,…

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Fertility / January 20, 2023

Worried you may not feel connected to your baby if conceived from a donor egg versus your own egg? I had the same reservations & other doubts. It’s normal.

My husband was the one who really advocated buying donor eggs after our epic failure of a first cycle, and…

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Fertility / December 15, 2022

Egg donor selection: How to select which donor eggs to purchase for your donor egg IVF cycle

Have you made the decision to pivot and do a donor egg IVF cycle for your next round? Or are…

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Making the difficult and wonderful decision to purchase frozen eggs for a egg donor IVF cycle
Fertility / November 3, 2022

Is an egg donor cycle right for you in your IVF journey?

Are you considering going the egg donor route? It is not an easy decision. There are so few resources out…

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I'm Gemma, and this is my creative space outlet where I share things I am energetic about. This will mostly be recipes inspired by my childhood, heritage & travel experiences, and occasionally include other musings on mom & lifestyle things and my personal mission to live a joyful life everyday!

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