Talking and Telling Part 2: How we tell our Children
Episode notes
As solo parents we are missing a very obvious part of the equation, and how we talk to our children about their origins and genetics is important.
Normalising donor conception for our children though story telling allows us to talk to our children about how they came to be, their individual family structure and the important people in their life. There are many books out there targeted at different age groups, but I have linked below some of the books we have:
The lion story, Why Don't I Have A Daddy?: A Story of Donor Conception: Amazon.co.uk: Dickerson, Anne: 9781425995874: Books
The Pea that was me: The Pea That Was Me (Volume 4): A Single Mom’s/Sperm Donation Children’s Story: Amazon.co.uk: Kluger-Bell, LMFT, Kimberly: 9781493574544: Books
Lilly's Blueprints: Lilly's Blueprints: A (IUI/IVF) Donor Conception Story for Single Moms By Choice (My Donor Story: A Book Series for Donor-Conceived Children) : Leya, Sharon, Maru, Janne: Amazon.co.uk: Books
What makes a baby: What Makes a Baby : Cory Silverberg, Fiona Smyth: Amazon.co.uk: Books
Our Story from DCN: OUR STORY - How we became a family - (sperm donation in solo mum families - single baby) - Donor Conception Network