its not a couple

the intended father is a single gay man! YES! finally.

i wonder who will be carrying his baby?

confirmation

i got a call that my selection has been confirmed today. i dont know who the infertile couple is yet, my file is being transferred to a case manager who will work out the details of scheduling screenings for me. blood work and all that. i'm guessing i'll get a bunch of blood drawn again. probably the same thing as last time. i have to tell my work i'll be needing time off.

i hope the donation happens soon. i'd rather do it before work gets really busy because of summer.

round 2?

i had a false alarm last month. somebody was looking at my profile but decided not to chose me. probably because of the goofy faces i made on the interview video. HA. i'm so embarrassed about that. i guess it would be a pain to rerecord that stuff. its hard enough updating my pictures with the agency.

but i think somebody is really choosing me this time. i got a call from my former case manager, she asked my availability and all that. she said that they're going to reassign me with another case manager for the infertile couple. i really hope they're gay.

its funny 'cause i was just recently thinking that maybe i wouldn't donate again. my husband and I want to have kids sometime before i'm in my 30s or definitely by mid 30s (i'm 26), and i was thinking about doing that within the next few years? and it takes a good 6 months for the cycle to get back to normal, and i wouldn't even want to try to conceive just after all those fertility drugs, so i'd want to wait a couple years. i dont want to be an older parent. the risks for baby and mama go way up after 35. i guess in the end if i ended up unable to have kids, we'd just adopt.

and then i was thinking - maybe i'll get back on chemical birth control (the pre-natal kind) now that my cycle is totally normal and predictable again - and then the egg donor agency called me to tell me a couple wanted my eggs. so that made up my mind. i love planned parents.

should i keep the second donation on this blog? or should i start a new one? i'm thinking i should add the second donation to this blog and just change the name to Egg donor, or something.

its crazy. kid #1 is still in utero. i hope someday he/she meets me. that would be neat. unlikely, cause they live out of the country, AND they wanted an anonymous donor.

i've been thinking a lot about Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tail" its about the future, when the feminist movement takes a nosedive and women are used for making babies for the infertile elite. except they're more like slaves, and they dont get paid. i'm going to read that again. I also want to read that book by that insane woman who donated too many times. 'memoirs of an egg donor?" or something? its not at the library. i'm not going to buy any books about some crazy gold digger egg donor. but i do want to read it.