Egg-donor diary, part 1
December 13th, 2007 by 
Terri
Yucky Mummy contributor Michelle is about to give her friend a priceless gift – the chance to have a baby. Michelle’s story is the first in a series, as she takes the first steps in donating her eggs.
“When I grow up I’m going to be a doctor and have four children”.
Well I am not a doctor, but at age 36 still have dreams of being one – not to mention a foreign correspondent, dancer, builder and the first person to grow wings and fly. I am also very lucky. I have two beautiful children, which is enough.
My best friend from school is an occupational therapist, and has one year left till she’s completed her law degree. She has started up a charity for orphaned children in South Africa. She is also an amazingly generous, gentle, funny, easy-going, unfussy, beautiful woman – who cannot conceive a child with her eggs. Her husband and her have had so many invasive tests for years and years, along with countless miscarriages and IVF treatments, to no avail. Read the rest of this entry »
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