Parents Via Egg Donation Organization
Released
on: August 12, 2008, 3:33 am
Press
Release Author: Marna Gatlin / Parents
Via Egg Donation (PVED)
Industry:
Healthcare
Press
Release Summary: The Parents Via Egg Donation Organization, or
PVED, a non-profit organization was created to provide an informational
and supportive environment where parents and parents-to-be can
come together to exchange information about all facets of the
egg donation process.
Press
Release Body: The Parents Via Egg Donation Organization,
or PVED, was created to provide an informational
and supportive environment where parents and parents-to-be can
come together to exchange information about all facets of the
egg donation process.
Our
mission and purpose is to educate, support, and empower families
and individuals at any stage of the process who choose to use
egg donation to build a family.
PVED
offers information regarding agencies, legal and medical professionals,
treatment centers, mental health therapists, pharmaceutical companies,
and other resources.
We
are asked how PVED came to be – after many
years of struggling with infertility, our founder, Marna Gatlin,
discovered that the technology to have a child through egg donation
was available. Marna was curious, excited, and above all, hopeful
that this process might be the conduit to finally achieving my
lifelong dream of becoming a parent.
As
she began her quest to learn about egg donation, Marna quickly
became frustrated by the lack of information available about this
particular assisted reproduction technology. What Marna needed
was education and support, but it seemed she was on her own.
Finally,
while scouring the Internet, Marna happened to find a small e-mail
listserv called Mothers via Egg Donation, or
MVED. It was this group that became her lifeline
throughout the process of conceiving her son, and eventually became
its primary moderator.
MVED
now has over 1,100 members who share clinic, donor agency, medication,
mental health, and other information about egg donation on a daily
basis. Members discuss Society of Assisted Reproduction (SART)
success rates and statistics as well as American Society of Reproductive
Medicine (ASRM) guidelines in order to gain a better understanding
of the procedures and protocols involved in this complex infertility
treatment.
In
addition—and perhaps most importantly—MVED
provides a much-needed forum for emotional support among people
who find themselves faced with the overwhelming and often difficult
prospect of needing third-party help to conceive a child.
Over
time, we began to be approached by traditional parents, single
mothers, and fathers, as well as gay and lesbian couples who wanted
to know where they fit into the arena of people who choose egg
donation. These individuals didn’t feel like they had any
means of receiving support, getting educated, or becoming empowered.
They felt isolated.
Taking
into account these concerns—as well as the realistic fact
that MVED, while an important resource, is simply
a group of people sharing anecdotal information in order to help
one another—Marna decided to create an organization that
would embrace every parent who had chosen egg donation to grow
their family. And she took the idea a step further: this resource
would be a global resource for unbiased, timely, and accurate
information about egg donation, eliminating the need to search
far and wide for piecemeal information and answers.
PVED
was born.
Web
Site: http://parentsviaeggdonation.org
Contact
Details: Marna Gatlin
PVED
Post Office Box 597
Scappoose, Oregon
97056
503.543.9900
2009
