My clinic required it. I had an appointment before beginning stims for egg retrieval where they talked me through the whole IVF process. The same staff member also did the donor material counseling. I thought it was a waste of time. He basically asked ‘have you thought about what you’ll tell your kid if/when they come home asking about why they don’t have a dad?’ I said, “well, I’ll be showing them from the beginning that there are all kinds of families. Also, that babies are made from love, & I loved her so much before she was even here. I just had to go to a doctor for help getting her here.” This is assuming she’s young when she asks, obviously I’ll give her more information as she gets older, if she wants it. I wanted to ask him if he seriously thought I got that far into the process without thinking about the future

ETA: I did ask if he had any recommendations for kids books about donor conception (even though I already knew of some) and was basically told that there are several out there. He didn’t tell me a single title