Donor-Conceived Children

I’m a mama to donor-conceived children – here’s my sperm bank story (& 5 things that surprised me the most)

Five children later and ten years on from the start of her journey, TRB Founder Eloise recaps her sperm bank story and shares the five things that positively surprised her about her experience.

Emma Harpham

18 August, 2025

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Doing family life as one and done - is it okay?

13 Nov 2024

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How to create a wider support network for your donor-conceived family

17 Oct 2023

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The Original Birth Connection

The Original Birth Connection was founded to train and support trauma informed doulas who could support all families who birth in our communities.

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WholeNest

Founded by Lital Bernstein, WholeNest is a line of all-natural products based on the body-mind balancing philosophy and our body's own healing abilities.

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The Mindful Birth Group®

The Mindful Birth Group® prepares you for birth, postnatal recovery and caring for your baby with their award-winning courses.

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Baba West

Optimum nutrition for babies and children, backed by science and loved by parents

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The thorny (& emotionally charged) topic of comparing your kid to someone else's

Having a baby via donor-conception? Bookmark these 5 resources

Our Father, DNA testing & what do we mean by ‘parentage’?

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Help them take pride – 5 ways to empower donor-conceived kids

20 Jun 2022

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Living as a donor-conceived adult: Alice's story

1 Jun 2022

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Embryo Donation - ‘You Were Made For Me’

25 Feb 2021

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Donor egg pregnancy success – hear Jennifer’s story

20 Jun 2022

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How a peri-menopause diagnosis led us to egg donation

This week, on the The Ribbon Box podcast, we had the great pleasure of speaking with Natalie Hart about her egg donor conception journey. Natalie met her fiancé late in life and, while she knew it would be difficult to conceive naturally, she didn’t expect to have less that 1% of her eggs remaining. When she began to show signs that she was peri-menopausal at 41, using an egg donor was one of her limited options to become a mother.