As a woman, would you consider donating your eggs?

Or, perhaps as a male, your sperm?

Just a totally random thought I had a little while ago. I have no idea whatsoever where is came from, it just did.

How do you feel about it? Do you feel that you would have a difficult time thinking of a child out there somewhere that was conceived because of you, yet having no real involvement? A child that you would more than likely never meet?

And what if, in the future, you were to come across this child...how would that make you feel? Would you want to be a part of their life?

Honestly? I've at times thought about donating. I'm fertile, I'm healthy, I've got three children, which puts me at an even more desirable candidate. I could possibly give someone a child that couldn't have had one of their own. I could make a difference, I could help. I know what joy my own children have brought me, and the thought of someone desperately wanting it yet unable to do so makes me feel really sad.

I remember when my SIL was trying to conceive and having a very difficult time. I felt horrible for her. I felt guilty that I had no problem whatosever conceiving. I actually thought about being her surrogate (that is, before I had the complications I did with the twins). My heart just ached for her. Finally, after many years, she was able to have her second child. My sweet little nephew!

Also, and I'm sure this affects the thought on donating...on the lines of compensation, do you know, you can actually receive $5,000-$10,000 donating eggs? Can you believe that? It seems like such an easy thing, but it must not be, if fertility centers are willing to pay like that.

I don't know, like I said, a totally random thought. Wish I knew where it came from.

 

Sure. What would you like me to put it in?

 

I’m guessing you saw the interview with the california woman who had octuplets giving her a total of 14 children


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I wouldn't do it, unless I got a free hand job from one of the nurses.

 

I hear it's an extremely painful process.
That being said, desperate times call for desperate measures.
I don't need my eggs, and I don't really think anyone else does either, but perhaps I will really need the money someday soon. I've thought about it.
I don't really have any moral quandaries with knowing that someone somewhere would have came from one of my eggs. afterall, we all come from the same source anyway

 

Short of slipping her a Benjamin; not going to happen


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A benjawotsit?

 

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Oh, one of those.... LOL

 

I wanted to awhile back...
Yes.I would.
I am not sure my eggs are the most desirable, but I am young, have a child, don't want more , I don't really consider my eggs "my babies" nor would I worry much about that- and would like the money- So theoretically a good candidate.
- but genetically perhaps not, they run a lot of tests to check that So I do still think of applying and going through all the testing, if only hubby would get a vas I would.

Yes, It is pretty invasive, takes months of treatments and lots of hormones(with those yucky side effects,and worse possible side effect) which is why the comp is so high.
-just like any bodily "donation" you are being paid for your time, not the actual eggs.

 

I'd donate my sperm

 

they won't let me donate my sperm.

 

I think I would... but then again who knows how I will feel after the baby is here.

 

No, my awesomeness needs to be kept in check. Having babies born with so much awesome but no one to guide them could prove potentially fatal for the Earth. Better not risk it. Not only that but too many of these awesome children and the balance between awesome and sucky could be irreversibly damaged.

I'm all about the greater good.

 

I'd actually feel utterly repulsed by me having anything to do with that.
I wouldnt really pass judgement on others doing it.

But why cant people adopt orphans etc first , before bizarre things like donors etc?
And as for the idea of gay men becoming "mothers" to babies... well words fail me...

 

No I would not do it.

 

Only reason I'd be afraid to do it is what if I had a kid and then they fell in love with someone and that someone turns out to be biologically their sibling? Messed up!

 

No.

 

Looking back on family history, nearly ever single member on both my maternal grandmother's and grandfather's has serious psychological issues. And then you get into the topic of addiction and other physical health concerns. I have no clue what sort of crazies my paternal side has. I just wouldn't feel right doing it.

 

Every military based fertility clinic in this country would love to a hold of my (once-in-a-generation) sperm to create an entire army of super-soldiers


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