If you are considering Donor Conception, read this
July 13, 2009 by Christina
Filed under single by choice
Sometimes, I stumble across women I instantly admire. Women whose ability to make gutsy choices and stick with them seem to doom my “see every side of it” personality to the dustbins of second-best.
Women like Emily Caston who, fed up with looking for Mr. Right and not willing to settle for Mr. Right Now, she chose a path of in vitro fertilization and wound up with a button-cute little girl and a debt of gratitude to the man who unknowingly helped her. Well, he knew he was donating sperm. He didn’t know which mum would end up with his genetic material. The article is beautifully written:
I was 40 when I had Adrienne, and the whole process had taken three years. I would be lying if I said it was easy. It was hugely emotionally and physically exhausting. There were lots of tests, internal investigations, examinations and scans, necessitating endless time off work. There were so many difficult decisions to be made, all the home injections of hormones, the worrying watching for signs of ovarian over-stimulation syndrome, the agonising wait for the date on which I could do the pregnancy test and the tears over the first early miscarriage; but my desire to have a child was so great that I never once considered giving up.
Get yourself a cuppa and curl up for a good read: Donor conception: The mother of all decisions is worth it.
or see the UNICEF approved link >
http://needing-fathers.blogspot.com