…after each interview, the ova obscura team drafted a brief “narrative summary” to make sure we captured the experiences of egg donors in the ways they wanted to be heard. The narrative summaries were then shared with (and sometimes revised by) our interview participants.

Below, you can access the narrative summaries of a few of our participants. These narrative summaries were selected to highlight some of the very different kinds of experiences with egg donation heard about in the interviews.

Click on the audio file to hear the narrative summaries as read by some of the research assistants from the ova obscura team.

(Or click on the relevant image to download an accessible .pdf transcript of the text from the audio file)



Natalie's story -- as read by Anya Johnson Poon