Don’t offer unsolicited advice
Your friend or family member has probably already investigated all the options. They don’t need advice like, “Have you thought about adoption?” And they don’t need to have anyone question their judgement about which clinic or procedure to use. What they do need is to be heard and understood.
Kim Kluger-Bell, LMFT
Kim Kluger-Bell is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She consults with major fertility clinics nationwide and provides counseling and assessments for egg donors, gestational carriers and patients using these procedures. She is the author of Unspeakable Losses: Healing from Miscarriage, Infertility and Abortion, as well as a series of books for donor conceived children entitled The Pea That Was Me and a surrogacy series called The Very Kind Koala.
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