This extremely informative and sensitively written book updates and expands on core material produced by the same authors in Beyond Infertility (1994). Its intended readers are professionals and those who need to use assisted reproductive methods in order to have a family.

Susan Cooper is a psychologist and Ellen Glazer a clinical social worker Both have many years experience of working with couples experience infertility and seeking solutions through assisted conception or third party parenting.

The book is divided into Nine Chapters, those most obviously of interest to Network members being on DI, Ovum Donation and Telling the Truth: Why, When and How to do so. The opening chapter on the Emotional and Ethical Considerations of the Assisted Reproductive Technology sets the scene by acknowledging the multiple losses and tortuous choices facing would-be parents today and discuses the Right to Reproduce Vs the Rights/Best Interest of the Child. All the chapters have fascinating insights into aspects of gamete donation and reproductive technology that are rarely addressed elsewhere. For instance, there is a section of Pregnancy after ART - thoughts, feelings and responses with family and then when carrying a child conceived with donated gametes, and also several pages on the range of emotions gone through following pregnancy loss following gamete donation.

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