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...
by AllPaths Family Building | Jun 7, 2023 | Donor Conception, Fertility Treatment, LGBTQ+, Surrogacy
Join Dr. Mark Leondires, medical director of IllumeFertility and founder of GayParentsToBe for this overview of biological family building options for LGBTQ+ people. This discussion covers clinical options for lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer people that are seeking...
by AllPaths Family Building | Jan 9, 2023 | ART, Donor Conception, Fertility Treatment, Surrogacy
Join family building counselor Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW and explore how potential parents and parents of children through egg, sperm, or embryo donation and/or gestational surrogacy can become proud and confident storytellers who look forward to conversations with their...
