Parents Via Egg Donation Celebrates First Year

Main Category: Fertility
Article Date: 06 Mar 2009 - 5:00 PDT

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Parents Via Egg Donation (PVED), a global non-profit organization that has served over 5000 individuals over the past year celebrates its first year of operation. Marna Gatlin founder of Parents via Egg Donation couldn't be more pleased at the positive reception and rapid growth of this much needed organization. "Our organization is growing by leaps and bounds! And we couldn't be happier." Commented Gatlin, in regards to her first year of business.

Fertility treatment is often complex, difficult, and often a painstakingly private journey - even more so when couples or singles are not able to have children using their own eggs. However, PVED is helping change all that. PVED is offering information, resources, and a sense of community to those considering or attempting to create or grow their family using donor eggs.

PVED's members are made up of couples and singles of various religions, races and sexual orientations. "Many of these individuals didn't feel like they had any means of receiving support, getting educated, becoming empowered, or had a voice," said Founder Marna Gatlin, who conceived her son with egg donation. "Often they felt isolated."

"I decided to create an organization that would embrace every parent who had chosen egg donation to grow their family," said Gatlin. "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."

The organization offers "how to" information: How to select a donor; how to select an egg donor agency; how to select an infertility clinic; as well as information on the step-by-step egg donation process, information about disclosure, and resources and links where readers can learn more. Gatlin also offers information regarding agencies, legal and medical professionals, treatment centers, mental health therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and other resources.

For more information about Parents via Egg Donation, please visit their website at: http://www.pved.org .

The Parents via Egg Donation 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. 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.

"Wherever you are in the process, there is a place in our community for you."

Marna Gatlin
Founder
Parents via Egg Donation
http://www.pved.org
marna@pved.org
503.987.1433

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