My Donor Story is a short-form animated YouTube series in which donor conceived children encounter everyday situations — building a fort, going to the beach, getting ready for bed, sharing at school — that naturally open into conversations about donor conception. Each episode centers a different theme: sibling relationships across families, origin story as bedtime ritual, navigating peer curiosity in a classroom. Each episode includes a biological explanation of donor conception — eggs, sperm, embryos, DNA — anchored primarily to physical appearance. The series is consistently warm and curious. All episodes are animated, run under two minutes, and are set in a contemporary context.
DCP Stories Collection
- Other
- Ages 3-8 (e.g., picture books), Ages 5-8 (e.g., early readers)
- Sharon Leya
- Egg Donor, Embryo Donor, Sperm Donor
My Donor Story (YouTube Series)
Review
What This Does Well
- Donor conception is a detail that comes up because life brought it up. A friend asks a question. A baby arrives. A teacher assigns a project. The children in these videos aren’t processing a revelation; they’re explaining something ordinary.
- The series represents family structure and donor diversity across the episodes: two-parent heterosexual family, two-mom family, solo mother, sperm donation, egg donation, and embryo donation.
- Episode 4 (Family Tree Day), where a character explains donor conception in a classroom setting, could be a meaningful mirror for children navigating how to talk about their family outside the home.
What Bothers Us
- The series has an emotional ceiling: a child experiencing feelings like confusion, anger, ambivalence, or loss won’t find a mirror here.
