ArticleJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)2020
"Making the child mine": Mothers' thoughts and feelings about the mother-infant relationship in egg donation families.
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- Donor-conceived adolescents' interest in obtaining information about their identity-release oocyte or sperm donor-results from the Swedish Study on Gamete Donation.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- The Impact of Embryo Donation Technology on Child Psychological Adjustment and parenting styles: A Comparative Study.International journal of fertility & sterility · 2025Article
- 'It's all settled on the right page' surrogates' feelings and reflections of surrogacy two decades on.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- A longitudinal study of families created using egg donation: Family functioning at age 5.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
- Families created via identity-release egg donation: disclosure and an exploration of donor threat in early childhood.Reproductive biomedicine online · 2023Article
- Women's needs in their journey towards motherhood via oocyte donation: A mixed methods systematic review.International journal of reproductive biomedicine · 2023Review
- 'I'm the only mum she knows': parents' understanding of, and feelings about, identity-release egg donation.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- An exploration of parental age in relation to parents' psychological health, child adjustment and experiences of being an older parent in families formed through egg donation.Reproductive biomedicine online · 2022Article
- Perceptions of Fertility Physicians Treating Women Undergoing IVF Using an Egg Donation.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Parent-child relationship quality and child psychological adjustment in families created using egg donation: children's perspectives at age 5 years.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2022Article
- Good practice recommendations for information provision for those involved in reproductive donationHuman reproduction open · 2022Article
- Not just carriers: experiences of X-linked female heterozygotes.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2021Article
- Positioning the donor in a new landscape-mothers' and fathers' experiences as their adult children obtained information about the identity-release sperm donor.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Love and Truth: What Really Matters for Children Born Through Third-Party Assisted Reproduction.Child development perspectives · 2021Article
- Characteristics of Early Mother-Infant and Father-Infant Interactions: A Comparison between Assisted Reproductive Technology and Spontaneous Conceiving Parents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- The perspectives of recipients and their partners conceiving through oocyte donation on counselling and healthcare: A qualitative study.Women's health (London, England)Article
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Abstract
The number of families being created through fertility treatment with donor eggs is increasing yearly. Women who conceive in this way share a gestational but not genetic relationship with their child, yet there is limited understanding of how mothers experience the mother-child relationship during its formative period, infancy. This study explored heterosexual mothers' thoughts and feelings about the mother-infant relationship in families created through egg donation. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a sample of 85 women who had conceived following egg donation treatment at U.K. fertility clinics. Mothers had at least 1 infant (6-18 months) and were living with the child's father. Interview data were analyzed according to the principles of thematic analysis. The results showed that egg donation mothers used a range of strategies across the transition to parenthood that enabled them to establish their identity as the child's mother and facilitated the process of helping them feel that the baby was their own. This process was individual to each woman, with the absent genetic connection varying in significance between mothers. The strategies employed enabled most mothers to adjust successfully to parenthood and manage any ambivalence and uncertainties associated with nongenetic parenthood. Most mothers felt secure and confident in their position as the child's mother by the end of the first year. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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