After years of failed IVF cycles with your own eggs, you have now gone through the long (and expensive) process of using donor eggs to create embryos. You are full of hope for your next embryo transfer; after all, you’ve done everything you can to set yourself up for pregnancy. But your transfer isn’t successful. 

The despair of a failed transfer - or several transfers - of your embryo created with donor eggs is hard to overstate. For many people, the standard explanation of “bad luck” doesn’t cut it, and continuing to use precious embryos with the same transfer protocol seems, as the old adage goes, to be the definition of insanity. After this long journey, women facing unexplained infertility and recurrent implementation failure may find their way to a subspeciality that they didn’t know existed: reproductive immunology.

Welcome to Building Asian Families, a dedicated resource for Asian intended parents navigating the journey of third-party reproduction. Our mission is to provide high-quality information and support to help you make informed decisions and achieve your dream of starting or expanding your family.

The decision of whether or not to discuss your choice to pursue third party reproduction with your family is a major one. Here are our top 7 tips for talking to your parents.

Everyone who is considering using an egg donor will eventually need to decide whether they want their child to have the option to know the identity of their donor when they get older. While there is no right or wrong answer, intended parents need to learn about their options and make an informed decision about their preference early in the process.