by AllPaths Family Building | Dec 17, 2024 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Podcast, Support
Danielle shares her story of trying to conceive over 40, navigating fertility treatment, donor egg IVF, and the anxiety of becoming pregnant after years of failed cycles. Over the course of the conversation we chat about navigating boundaries while family building,...
by AllPaths Family Building | Dec 3, 2024 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Infertility, Podcast, Surrogacy
A born and raised New Yorker, social worker Jen Rachman shares her family’s story from an ovarian cancer diagnosis that sadly left her infertile in her 20s, to the decision that surrogacy was the best route for her and her husband to grow their family. With the help...
by AllPaths Family Building | Nov 12, 2024 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Podcast, Surrogacy
CEO and Founder of Family Source Consultants (FSC), Staci Swiderski shares her personal journey as an intended parent, welcoming a son via gestational surrogacy in 2005 and her experience as a known egg donor. Her own fertility challenges led her to found FSC in 2007...
by AllPaths Family Building | Aug 21, 2024 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Support
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 2 By Sonja Klug In mainstream books, films, and ads there is a very dominant narrative of how families happen: Usually, a man and a woman fall in love, have children and live happily after. From a young age, that’s how we...
by AllPaths Family Building | Jun 6, 2024 | Donor Conception, Parenting After
Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 1 By Max Tang Growing up biracial in an all-Chinese American family, I often felt like an oddity. I wasn’t the only mixed kid in my world – I didn’t know anyone else who was mixed like my twin brother and I. My...
by AllPaths Family Building | Sep 28, 2023 | Donor Conception, Family Building Story, Footsteps for Family Building, Infertility, IVF
Guest Post by a member of the 2023 Footsteps for Family Building Walk Committee The hardest battles are given to the strongest soldiers. A story I’ve never fully told publicly even to some of our closest family members, started with our wish for a baby. We thought...
