Egg and Sperm Donors (baby, support, pregnancy, girl)
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No Kudzu, in a way you are having your own answers living with you every day. Someone genetically linked to these girls you have adopted doesn't know them. Does it make you sad for them? (both your girls and their genetic parents)? Or the chance the girls get to be born at all and have a loving family undermines the genetics?
No Kudzu, in a way you are having your own answers living with you every day. Someone genetically linked to these girls you have adopted doesn't know them. Does it make you sad for them? (both your girls and their genetic parents)? Or the chance the girls get to be born at all and have a loving family undermines the genetics?
Of course- how short sighted of me. Thanks...I needed that.
You misunderstood me. I did not mean to tell you to feel the way I felt. You asked how people woudl fee. That is how *I* would feel.I certainly understand yours.
Let me try that again. That is to say that I am sorry that my cold, atomoton reaction was hurtful to you if it was. That was not my intention.
Of course it wasn't meant as I took it. I shudder to think how some of my posts could be interrupted as being really snarky when actually I only meant them to be a teeny bit snarky.
too much can be misinterpreted without tone and faces. We're good.
Of course it wasn't meant as I took it. I shudder to think how some of my posts could be interrupted as being really snarky when actually I only meant them to be a teeny bit snarky.
too much can be misinterpreted without tone and faces. We're good.
I did not mean to be snarky at all! Of all the people that bring forth the snark in me, you are not one of them! My husband tells me I am a robot often. Glad we are good.
Part of my sadness is that he has always talked about how much he wants to be a Dad. and he would be a great Dad... with the right partner. I'm afraid he might be thinking this is as close as he will come to being a father.
Why on earth would he think that? Isn't he pretty young?
Oddly this is my story too. I was approached to be an egg donor and I was impressed because of the money (I think it was around $5,000). As a broke college student in my 20s that money would have come in handy but the more I read about it the risks just seemed not worth it. Not to mention it will actually put someone in menopause much earlier.
Where on earth did you read that?? The biggest risk with being an egg donor (or for anyone going through egg retrievals for IVF) is ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. Your body retains dangerous amounts of fluids and you are at a higher risk for stroke. In the history of IVF, exactly one person has died from OHSS.
I'd consider egg donation and I think my parents would be perfectly happy with that (but then again, my father is a fertility doctor). I don't think I would be bothered knowing I have genetic children out there, mostly curious to see what they would look like.
Someone told me that menopause happens earlier which makes sense if you think about it. Women are born with all the eggs she needs so one less one is closer to menopause. So if they take out 10 that means probably 10 months closer to menopause.
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