Confessions of a Serial Egg Donor

[Delphinium20]

Have any of you read this? I'm curious to read it because in the U.S. egg donation is not regulated and there are ads for egg donors (my daughter and her friends get them as well...very frustrating). If any of you have young adult daughters studying in the states, make sure they know not to do this for easy cash!

www.amazon.com/Confessions-Serial-Donor-Julia-Derek/dp/0974907901/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8

Weird and I saw some posts yesterday from a gay couple extolling the virtues of egg donation, good for whom exactly...

Show them this instead:

m.imdb.com/title/tt2278933/

@Delphinium20 you might like to listen to this podcast interview with the author/serial egg donor.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/venus-rising/id1481872967?i=1000500918674

It's rather an odd podcast, she seems rather snarky and getting informed from her is like pulling teeth. For someone who did it twelve times she seems remarkably ill informed.

She thinks spare eggs have been frozen and she might be able to use them one day if she got the urge (she doesn’t want children anyway).
Then she got quite cross with Jennifer Lahl, suggesting that her excess eggs would probably have been sold on.

I’d be interested to know more about the market in eggs, especially eg in USA where IPs choose an egg donor and contract her and want those eggs for personal use.
Why would they want 50???
Why not use less hormones and get 10-15?
What do they do with the excess? Are they even their personal property? Or does the clinic just get to do what they like with the spares - research or sell them on and recoup $$$??

And when she started ranting about male sperm donors, claiming they donated up to 1000 times a year...!! I mean, that would be wanking as a full time job. As much as many men may fancy the job I'm pretty sure it's not a realistic option!

Oh yes, and her final advice seemed to sum up as:
Make sure you go to a decent hospital.
Don't do it so often.
Charge a decent price.

i've got a friend who had fertility treatment in the US. if you want donor sperm or eggs, the doctors show you a catalogue of the donors including baby photos, school grades, sporting / music achievements, family genetic history etc. and you can take your pick. eggs from donors at top universities (Harvard / MIT etc) are more expensive than regular ones. It is just like shopping.

I’d be interested to know more about the market in eggs, especially eg in USA where IPs choose an egg donor and contract her and want those eggs for personal use.
Why would they want 50???
Why not use less hormones and get 10-15?
What do they do with the excess? Are they even their personal property? Or does the clinic just get to do what they like with the spares - research or sell them on and recoup $$$??

There's not clear information on WHAT the US market is and consistency varies with each clinic.

50 eggs could theoretically be 50+ (if some divided into identical twins) children. Government regulations include screening donors for infectious diseases, which seem to only impact sperm in semen.

Some people give fertilised eggs to their mates apparently: www.facebook.com/18468761129/posts/10159017590131130/

Non Facebook link: www.huffp.st/Y8jmszE?fbclid=IwAR2U5dLytsrWqpkFHYT6m6BXZwqPWR-FZUL3GR5IV_NiQveTaSH59wCqVsI

It's about 3 gay men who are in a 'throuple' who got some spare embryos from a friend and now have two surrogate children. All three of them appear on the birth certificate. Is the name under mother left blank in these instances?

The language around the difficulty of getting a surrogate..."it's cruel" that it's difficult to hire a woman to breed for you.

I either read an article in a baby magazine or saw a video of the TwoDads explaining how much these paid for the eggs for their first child, Michael thought it was crazy what you could charge for (if they work for NASA or are a lawyer or whatever, I'm paraphrasing) but you know if you want the top quality beautiful and clever babies you have gotta pay top dollar 🙄

The language around egg donors makes me think of chickens and the author reveals how naive she is in the podcast Fanny shared.

In addition to giving away your spare fertilised embryos you can also 'adopt' them.

The Gibson family adopted their children as frozen embryos through the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), a self-styled Christian organization operating out of Knoxville, Tennessee. The center says that IVF is the answer to “prayers” from families struggling to conceive and that their business offers a solution to the resultant “surplus of frozen human embryos.”
This “surplus” is no small number either, with the center positing it is “estimated at roughly 1,000,000 [embryos] in the United States.”
According to the NEDC, “Many biological parents store their frozen embryos for future use. But when those parents have completed their families, they must decide what to do with their remaining embryos. Donating them to another infertile couple is an increasingly popular option.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/embryo-frozen-for-27-years-now-born-illustrates-ethical-challenges