kpierce
25-12-2010, 00:01
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum, just need to know a few things. I am a lesbian and in a loving relationship with a girl whom I would love to have kids with someday. I am a little confused about how we would go about this. We have both definitely ruled out sleeping with a guy to get pregnant, and we DO want insemination but we want the child to have genes from BOTH of us. Is this possible? I mean yes, still have a sperm donor obviously, but is there a procedure in which they can take some dna/genes/etc from me and also from my partner?? It just seems to me like if one of us just had normal insemination, then it wouldnt techinically be BOTH of our baby, it would be me/her (whoever carries) and the donors... I would love nothing more than to have some of my genes and my partners genes in our baby, and call it officially ours.
Or would it be easier to do the egg exchange?? I can plant my egg and the donors sperm in HER and vice versa. So we would be carrying each others child? Does that make sense? I dont know Im really confused. I wish we didnt need sperm!!! I wish they could create an artificial sperm thats like the BASE of the baby, and my genes and my partners genes can do the rest.
Mind you, we wont be doing this until we have the money. I know its a costly procedure... It wont be for years. Im just thinking about it now though, maybe start planning it.
Can anyone offer any advice? Thank you so much!
I'm new to this forum, just need to know a few things. I am a lesbian and in a loving relationship with a girl whom I would love to have kids with someday. I am a little confused about how we would go about this. We have both definitely ruled out sleeping with a guy to get pregnant, and we DO want insemination but we want the child to have genes from BOTH of us. Is this possible? I mean yes, still have a sperm donor obviously, but is there a procedure in which they can take some dna/genes/etc from me and also from my partner?? It just seems to me like if one of us just had normal insemination, then it wouldnt techinically be BOTH of our baby, it would be me/her (whoever carries) and the donors... I would love nothing more than to have some of my genes and my partners genes in our baby, and call it officially ours.
Or would it be easier to do the egg exchange?? I can plant my egg and the donors sperm in HER and vice versa. So we would be carrying each others child? Does that make sense? I dont know Im really confused. I wish we didnt need sperm!!! I wish they could create an artificial sperm thats like the BASE of the baby, and my genes and my partners genes can do the rest.
Mind you, we wont be doing this until we have the money. I know its a costly procedure... It wont be for years. Im just thinking about it now though, maybe start planning it.
Can anyone offer any advice? Thank you so much!