Using an Egg Donor to Have Our Baby
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2021
- A wonderful chat for International Donor Conception Awareness Day with lovely Keeley.
Hear how she had 8 rounds of IVF before moving onto donor egg IVF. We chat about considerations when selecting a donor, feelings during pregnancy and what speaking to our donor conceived children may look like 🧡
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I think it's important that the donor resembles you,because if it's your own genetics,you have an idea what the children might look like. Intelligence,and buildt also matters.
I really appreciate your openness and honesty. It made me feel less alone on this journey.
thank you both for this video. Much love x
I dont understand why mothers that have egg donation just accept that child can get look from them. Let me explain, the kid is created combining two sets of genes at the end the child will have around 20,000 genes. WHAT will be active and turn on depends also from various epigenetic influences in uterus, some of the genes WILL be activated only in certain mother uterus but not in another women uterus. And influence of epigenetics to donor eggs are just starting to be researched. So when someone say "Maybe this kid got this from you." answer should be "Maybe".
I won't tell anybody,not even the child/children who where conceived. In the end it's your child,and yours alone. I think it creates uncertainty for your children if they know that they were donor conceived
They've done research on this and if children grow up with the knowledge they accept it well, however if they learn later in life it can create an identity crisis and also a huge trust issue in your relationship. It's naive to think that in the era of dna tests they would never find out.
actually it does the opposite and can damage them further because the secret it what makes it seem bad. using donor gametes isn't bad or wrong so why hide it? usually the kid doesn't care anyways and they're more just curious about the dna aspect
I am very happy for Keeley becoming a mum. I think egg, sperm and embryo donation should never be anonymous. I think Keeley hasn’t thought deeply enough about how her little boy will feel growing up. Also with ancestry gene testing sites anonymity will be a thing of the past anyway. Openness and honesty is the best way, no doubt.
I don’t think donor shudnt hv anything to do with the kid coz they donated that’s all after all it’s ur flesh n blood so wats the use to make it complicated
Thank you so much for this informative video. As we embark on considering this option it all just blows my mind!
I’d be interested to know how open you were with other people such as friends, family, colleagues during the pregnancy itself. Ie, whether you told everyone it was a donor conception from the start, or whether you kept that more to the ‘inner circle’ initially?
better keep it to just you and your husband
@@thg_physics5477 I disagree. There should be no shame in being donor conceived, similar to adoption. Secrets hurt the child.
@@MsChitterchat there should be no secrets with the child but whom from outside world should they tell its totally on them
Thank you for sharing your experience. We really need to make a big change in society I think. Young women spend their most fertile years working, travelling, and often not taking relationships seriously (as do males). How do we change this? I see this as the unintended consequence of feminism / equality, sex education (strong messaging for not getting pregnant) and sexual liberation. It’s a cruel fact that fertility for women drops drastically after 35 years of age. Women especially need to talk to younger females more about this. We are also stopping children from having grandparents and great grandparents because first time mothers are much older than they were in previous generations. This all seems like a big societal loss to me. Too many traumatic fertility stories out there. Wish all women out there trying to become mothers well.