Author name: Jana M. Rupnow, LPC

About the Author Jana M. Rupnow, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and consultant specializing in fertility and family building. Jana has helped hundreds of people facing the challenges of infertility as well as those preparing for third-party family building and adoption. Jana works independently in private practice in Dallas, Texas. She has built relationships with fertility doctors across the country to help their patients with the psychological challenges of donation conception prior to medical intervention. She works with couples, parents, donors, agencies, and endocrinologists across the nation in her Dallas offices and via Skype or FaceTime. Jana also helps parents learn to communicate with their children about donor conception and serves as a liaison for communication between donor-conceived or adoptive families and genetic or birth parents. She is a speaker and a member of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine’s Mental Health Group and a professional member of the National Infertility Association, Resolve. Jana has a clinical background in physiology and has published articles through Baylor University Medical Center. Jana is also an adoptee and adoptive mom. She and her husband, Scott, live in Dallas with their son, Caden, and daughter, Jade, and two goldendoodles, Oliver and Chloe. For consultation, counseling, training for professionals, or a speaking engagement, email Jana@JanaRupnow.com or learn more on JanaRupnow.com. Follow Jana Rupnow on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @janarupnowlpc.

Will I Feel Like the Real Parent?

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wwvdt-11b70a7   Will I feel like my child’s real parent? Nongenetic parents commonly report to me that they are worried they will not feel like the legitimate parent. They fear their child will feel as if they aren’t the “real mom” or “real dad” and will reject them as a parent for being genetically different. […]

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Dan’s Experience with the ”Unthought Known”

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-9htpf-11a1bf0 Dan provides a male perspective of being donor conceived and experiencing infertility, touching on toxic masculinity that perpetuates reproductive secrets. Dan shares how being different felt like it was bad in his family and how his late discovery of his biological father helped him understand his truth.

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My expert testimony for Washington Bill 5348

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jum3y-1197931 The vote is tomorrow‼️ Can you help spread the word in the DC (parents, DCPs and donors)community to email Washington senators to pass bill 5348? Here’s a list of Emails:  Chair: Manka Dhingra (D, District 45) – manka.dhingra@leg.wa.govVice Chair: Yasmin Trudeau (D, District 27) – yasmin.trudeau@leg.wa.govRanking Member: Mike Padden (R, District 4) – mike.padden@leg.wa.govAssistant

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Peter, author of Uprooted, shares his personal story

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p4kuv-118b8a5 Uprooted offers a personal view of the consequences of secrecy in the practice of donor conception. A prominent CEO, Peter Boni, uncovers a family secret that both validates and disrupts his life. Combing his extensive research of the early practice of donor insemination with his own genetic discoveries, Boni reveals the questions, uncertainties and

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Jana‘s Reaction to Donor 9623

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mdk5f-110b33f Jana’s Reaction to Donor 9623 MUST Listen Dov Fox (Author, Narrator), Audible Originals (Publisher) When scores of aspiring parents turned to the fertility industry to start families, they chose a remarkable young man to be the biological father of their children. He was a music prodigy and gifted athlete who had a genius IQ,

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