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Authors Lisa Schuman, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist, and Dr. Mark Leondires, have decades of experience working with patients, as well as their own personal stories of fertility treatment and non-genetic parenthood.
Together they walk listeners through the medical and genetic aspects of donor conception, common ethical dilemmas, managing relationships with friends and family members, ways to tell donor-conceived children about their origins, and strategies to cope with the difficulties of fertility treatment.
In a compassionate and authoritative narrative, they help stressed out parents-to-be find their way forward with confidence and joy.
By YOU: The Owner's Manual4.6
2323 ratings
Authors Lisa Schuman, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist, and Dr. Mark Leondires, have decades of experience working with patients, as well as their own personal stories of fertility treatment and non-genetic parenthood.
Together they walk listeners through the medical and genetic aspects of donor conception, common ethical dilemmas, managing relationships with friends and family members, ways to tell donor-conceived children about their origins, and strategies to cope with the difficulties of fertility treatment.
In a compassionate and authoritative narrative, they help stressed out parents-to-be find their way forward with confidence and joy.

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