Marna Gatlin is an egg donation and embryo donation industry professional, and a patient advocate with a specialty in open egg donation and open embryo donation. She works to educate, support, and empower individuals in forming or adding to their family. With over 20 years as an infertility and donation professional, many refer to her as the “go to” person regarding all things egg donation and embryo donation.

Marna works with an amazing network of third-party experts. Her peers and professional colleagues would describe her as a creative-strategy problem solver and a detail-oriented team player with the proven ability to lead. “Facilitator” is her middle name! Regardless of whether you are an intended parent or an industry professional, she is always willing to roll up her sleeves and assist with the challenge at hand.

Listen to Marna as she discusses with Ellen and Jenn:

• The origination story of Parents Via Egg Donation.

• Her hopes and dreams of becoming a mother, but nothing going as planned.

• Meeting a parent who conceived through egg donation.

• Getting her dream doctor by pure luck!

• Having a difficult and scary pregnancy, but delivering a health boy at 39 weeks.

• Her original expectations as to her donor.

• Her son asking to meet the donor, and working to support his request.

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