Sep 23, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 12 segments
Egg donation may begin with a decision someone makes today but what could that decision mean years from now? In this episode of Create A Happy Family, psychotherapists Kristin Maljean and Leslee…
Leslee MurphyGuest
Whitney HallHost
Kristin MaljeanGuest
Before we like just continue to dive into the details, can you help listeners understand what the ASRM is and why their guidelines matter when it comes to egg donation and the psychological evaluation behind it? And how, I mean, I think we, when I think egg, when I think donation in general, I think a lot of people just think, you know, people walk into a clinic, and most of the time-
Um, it is the multidisciplinary, um, organization that seeks to advance, um, reproductive care.
... and also educating about reproductive rights and, um, and, and really one of the big things that they do is establish standards of care, um, for all of these procedures, um, all of the things related to infertility.
Um, and specifically with third party, you know, wanting to make sure that, that because we know evaluations are both, you know, subjective and objective, right? There's a combination of-
Before we like just continue to dive into the details, can you help listeners understand what the ASRM is and why their guidelines matter when it comes to egg donation and the psychological evaluation behind it? And how, I mean, I think we, when I think egg, when I think donation in general, I think a lot of people just think, you know, people walk into a clinic, and most of the time-
Um, it is the multidisciplinary, um, organization that seeks to advance, um, reproductive care.
... and also educating about reproductive rights and, um, and, and really one of the big things that they do is establish standards of care, um, for all of these procedures, um, all of the things related to infertility.
Um, and specifically with third party, you know, wanting to make sure that, that because we know evaluations are both, you know, subjective and objective, right? There's a combination of-
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