About PVED
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.
We plan to offer information regarding agencies, legal and medical
professionals, treatment centers, mental health therapists,
pharmaceutical companies, and other resources.
First, a little background on how PVED came to be. After many years of
struggling with infertility, I discovered that the technology to have a
child through egg donation was available. I 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 I began my quest to learn about egg donation, I quickly became
frustrated by the lack of information available about this particular
assisted reproduction technology. What I needed was education and
support, but it seemed I was on my own. Finally, while scouring the
Internet, I happened to find a small e-mail listserv called Mothers Via
Egg Donation, or MVED. It was this group that became my lifeline
throughout the process of conceiving my son, and eventually I 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 were approached by traditional parents, single mothers,
and single fathers, as well as gay and lesbian couples who wanted to
know where they fit into the arena of people who choose egg donation.
Many of these individuals didn’t feel like they had any means of
receiving support, getting educated, becoming empowered, or had a voice.
Often 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—I decided to create
an organization that would embrace every parent who had chosen egg
donation to grow their family. And I 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.
Parents Via Egg Donation Organization is not affiliated with any IVF clinic, embryo donation agency, independent egg broker or law practice. PVED is a non-profit independent organization.
Warmly - Marna Gatlin, Founder PVED
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