The anonymity of a big city where, at the time, I did not have as much as an acquaintance, helped me muster up the courage necessary to click that "send button" and submit that information form to the donor agency, along with a few pictures. It read something like this:
Age: 24
Education: Ivy League graduate
Height: 5-9
Weight: 135
Medical history: virtually none.
Smoking: never
30 pages of paperwork, an in-person interview, and a personality test later, I was matched with a couple who liked my profile. Between the day I submitted my profile and the moment I learned I had been "matched," less than 10 days had passed.
I didn't expect things to move so fast but thought, let's do it. I was too excited and scared to tell anyone.
Two years and three donations later, I essentially still haven't told anyone.
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I've been reading your blog because I have just been accepted to start the medical review and interview process for egg donation. Maybe you mention in it your golden goose site, but I was wondering how much you were compensated for your first time. For me, I was planning on going through Shady Grove Fertility Center which pays 6,000 upon completion of the process, in addition to the small pre-injection compensations for initial tests. On top of that I have to pay taxes.
There are a few other reasons besides money that I'm considering this, but I wanted to know from someone who has done it through multiple agencies what seemed like a good compensation.
Also, I've read about the donor's symptoms through the process and I know that you had OHSS after the retrieval. Once your body was "healed" persay, did you lose the weight that was gained from bloating? I'm not obsessed with body image, but as a fit person and lifeguard working in a bathing suit, people would notice if I suddenly gained ten pounds and I don't know how I could respond to their, well, responses.
If you have a minute, I'd love to hear about your post first-donation feelings and if your body got back to its original state. Thanks!
-Katie
I have PCOS, so my only chance to become a mother was ed ivf. The greatest fear was that I will not be able to love child, who is not genetically related to me. It's much more easier for man to accept this procedure, because a baby will be from him. As it was my only way out, I decided we should try. It was a difficult, but the result changed our lives! One more problem was prices. Costs for this procedure are very high in USA and Greece. It was hard to find clinic with professional doctors, quality service and affordable price. Also we've read so many reviews about scammers! Those people know nothing about empathy and understanding. After a couple of months of thorough search, reading of hundreds reviews and contacting clinics directly we've found Ukrainian biotexcom. I wanted a baby who I will carry and give birth by myself. I wanted to be with him from the moment of his birth, from his first breath. Of course, I wanted baby to look like us. But as soon as the doctor made an embryo transfer, the only thing I was thinking about was pregnancy to be successful and my baby to be born healthy! Now, when I remember how I suffered and couldn't bear the thought that I have to resort to donor eggs, I cannot help laughing. My child is at home right now and every time I look at him, I see that every day he more and more looks like me. I raise healthy and, of course, the most beautiful baby in the world! We asked our doctor to find egg donor, who will have same features as I have. Now I have absolutely no feeling that my son is not mine genetically! No one can ever tell he is from donor egg. We decided not to tell our parents the whole truth. For them we had ivf with my eggs and my husband's sperm. If you have firmly decided to become a mother, no difficulties will stop you. I'm not going to tell my son that I used donor egg of another woman to get pregnant. I'm sure he doesn't need to worry about this in the future. This fact will change nothing for him. We are very happy that we addressed to biotexcom for this procedures. Thanks to their doctors I was able to get pregnant using egg donation program and I've never regret about my decision!
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