Making the Child Mine: Mothers’ Thoughts and Feelings About the Mother–Infant Relationship in Egg Donation Families

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This paper was presented at the conference Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology, York, United Kingdom in September 2017. This research was supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award [097857/Z/11/Z] and a CHESS-ESRC studentship. We thank all the families who took part in this study, Sophie Zadeh, and Sarah Evans who provided research assistance. We also thank CARE Fertility, Bourn Hall Fertility Clinic, The London Women’s Clinic, Bath Fertility Centre, Oxford Fertility, Edinburgh Fertility & Reproductive Endocrine Centre, GCRM, Wessex Fertility, and Aberdeen Fertility Centre.