Live With Joy = Joyful World

The focus on Japanese and other Asian egg donors may seem like an unlikely combination upon which to build an egg donor agency, but not when you know the backstory of Michael Lacoe and Kenji Saito. Michael is Jewish and Kenji is Japanese and even though they come from very different backgrounds they soon discovered they shared a similar dilemma that was to become a common cause and the motivating factor behind the establishment of J baby as the egg donor agency of choice for Jewish and Asian egg donors.

In 2011, Kenji began taking the tentative steps of putting together the team of doctors, egg donor and surrogacy agencies, and lawyers to make real his dream of creating a family for himself. Navigating the IVF gauntlet would be intimidating and stressful to anyone unfamiliar with the IVF process. Factor in the language and cultural differences and these difficulties are compounded significantly as Kenji was soon to discover. But though challenging it was well worth the effort and soon he had assembled some of the smartest and most talented professionals in the business. It wasn’t long before he was assisting friends from Japan who similarly wanted to come to Los Angeles and take advantage of IVF treatment options to support their dreams of having a family.

So personally fulfilling did he find this work that in 2012 Kenji decided to formally launch J baby as a full-fledged concierge service providing access to IVF clinical services and complete turnkey logistical solutions to Japanese Intended Parents who wished to utilize treatment options that were not available in their home country. in addition to the practical expertise, perhaps even more importantly J baby was able to become a sort of Ambassador of Goodwill offering a nurturing joyful experience while acting as an effective bridge between two very different worlds to their valued parents-to-be.

Unfortunately a missing link soon emerged in the challenge posed in finding qualified Japanese egg donors at any of the established egg donor agencies. Out of necessity J baby began recruiting quality Japanese egg donors for their Intended Parents who were not able to use their own eggs to conceive a child. Soon Kenji was being approached by frustrated Japanese-American Intended Parents who had heard about J baby through the grapevine and were in desperate need of help in finding Japanese egg donors.

Simultaneously, Michael was hitting a similar brick wall trying to find an appropriate Jewish egg donor in his own early efforts to start a family. It turns out that the two hardest-to-find demographics are Jewish and Japanese egg donors. Who knew? So in 2015, built on a sincere desire to want to fill this void ease the burden of others who were facing a similar conundrum, Michael and Kenji decided to join forces and turn J baby into a full service egg donor agency specializing in Japanese, Jewish and other Asian egg donors.