Mel is a solo mother and has used her experience to help others on this journey. She can be found on social media @the_stork_and_i and is The Solo Parenthood Coach ™ Mel is an experienced Life Coach, with a coaching qualification from CoachMatch and over 15 years of personal development and leadership coaching, with the last 6 years focusing solely on Solo Parenting. She uses the blended approach of coaching, research based information and resources, and personal insights from her own journey to provide support to explore options and to help support those who are deciding to go down the same path. She has grown a like minded community full of amazing women who are all here to help and support each other, and through the content she shares, 1:2:1 coaching, group coaching programmes and through her membership, she supports women from around the world to feel empowered and in control of their route to parenthood. Mel talks about why she decided to become a solo mother, what her friends and family thought about it, and the biggest challenges she has faced. For solo mothers – there are various ways to obtain donor sperm such as through a fertility clinic, with a friend, or through meeting someone on line. The latter option can be problematic as highlighted in the Netflix series – The Man with 1000 kids. Most solo mothers are honest with their children from the start and tell them that they were conceived using donor sperm. The donor conception network produces excellent books called Our Story which help different types of families explain how they conceived to their children. Mel explained that it can lead to problems if families are not open. Further information can be found at https://www.dcnetwork.org/ and https://www.eshre.eu/irhec Date of episode recording: 2024-07-04T00:00:00Z Duration: 00.45.55 Language of episode: English Presenter:Professor Joyce Harper Guests: Mel Johnson Producer: Joyce Harper

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