Egg Donation. Really want to do it, but scared to!

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I've posted about this before, but it was ages ago. I really want to donate my eggs. I have thought about this for ages.....and I think that apart from serious illness (of you or a loved one) being told you can't have children must be up there with the worst news ever if you want children.

I would love to help. I heard yesterday that the waiting list is 3yrs for donated eggs. And that the younger the donor is the better. Well I'm only 27 and would feel so priveleged to help even just one person have the baby they so yearn for.

I know how it feels to long for a baby..... but the only thing stopping me was circumstances (money, house etc). But I was SO lucky in that when we decided to have a baby.... we just did. How much do we take that for granted.

I would ove to hear of any MN'ers experiences of either donating, or receiving a dontated egg.

Would I need lots of time off work? How long does the whole process take? Would it jeopardise my future fertility.

Any advice/experiences would be fab.

TIA

Coincidentally, I came across this yesterday after reading your thread National Gamete Donation Trust I agree that it's a fabulous thing to want to do.

Thanks for the link Sparks

Have e-mailed them and they sent me a list (been considering for years), will wait until settled at Uni then proceed.

Speaking as the happy mother of a 21 month old DD via ED....what a wonderful thing some of you are considering.

Not easy (I've been through IVF myself, so know what it involves - plus have several friends who have donated in the past) but wonderful. I wrote to our donor on the day she had her eggs harvested, but sadly - as this was pre the anonymity laws changing - thats that. I hope she chose to ask the clinic if her donation resulted in pregnancy (she had that choice) but can only wish she knew what joy DH and I were experiencing as parents (yes, along with all those other feelings! we're grateful, but normal...) and what a happy, bright little girl she has helped give life to.

As far as I'm concerned, she (donor) is a part of our family via DD: like a distant relative we've never met, but who we think of often and who is important to us all. Who knows, maybe one day we will be able to meet her - there may be a register set up for past donors willing to be 'known'.

Meantime, since I can't thank her in person...just wanted to acknowledge her gift by thanking those of you in this thread who are considering donation: even if it doesn't turn out to be the right thing for you, its great that you thought about it.

Claire5