ogilberry
17-04-2007, 12:59
I am located in Brisbane and have wanted to donate for some time however you get busy with your own life...i have three children youngest just turned four and was reading the brisbane child and saw an add for the fertility group in Brisbane city for a couple that needed an egg donor...
This is it. this is the couple that i want to change their lives. so i contacted the fertility group and was welcomed by the most friendly staff full of information and willing to answer my million and one queries...
So off i went in did the blood tests, psyc test with hubby etc and off we went on hols. i told them i wanted to wait til i got back from melbourne..which the recipient and the staff were fine with. so came back and off we went i went in to see the doctor had my implenon removed went a bit hormonal for couple of days then went on the nasal spray...which i was like a 1 in 1000 that was allergic to it..i came out in hives...the doctor said we could swap over to a needle version or we could end it...nope on we went...so had the needles for two weeks. in the second week also had to have the hormone needle for two weeks. so basically once youre ready to go from the date they say go it is really only three weeks...then pick up day is after you inject a hormone release...
i am an egg making machine..on average my doctor said about 18 or so eggs.i had 26 well 25 as one wasnt mature enough to use...
her first go she place three eggs and got pregnant right away.
the pick up was quite simple really..i went in got to wear a stunning outfit matching hat and booties and all hehe...i then hopped on the table and went for a snooze.woke up and didnt even feel slightly different...i did have to have an additional drip due to the overstimulation (having more than usual amount of eggs) but wasnt an issue...i got some lovely flowers and some yummy food and drinks and then hubby and i went out for lunch on the way home as we didnt have any children with us...so nope not a problem no bloating no pain nothing...i cant understand why more women dont donate. I know everyone donating is not the same but most donations do not have any complications..and some people ask but they are like your children...and my response to that is well yes but so are all the undeveloped children that have gone to waste over my lifetime but i dont think of them as my own...and others ask bu t dont you want to know anything about them...and again my response is "well no i am sure they look like a baby....i do hope they have a happy life and are told about where they have come from etc. I hope they are healthy and in the end i know i have made a humongous change in someones life that a dollar amount cannot be placed on." I am wrapped she got one of each so that she may not ever have to go through it again and that she was successful her first transfer to skip the heartache that you read about so often. i have received a few letters and i can just read that she just doesnt even know where to begin to thank someone for doing such a thing and that is what is why i chose to do this in the first place.
so in march her little twins were born..a little boy and a little girl...
and she still has all those eggs to use if she wanted anymore children...shame you cant split them up in to two families...
i opted to not allow them to pass on my eggs as i dont want too many mes running around brisbane you just never know whom youre children might end up falling in love with when they are older was my basic reasoning behind this. although if you could opt to have them sent interstate then i think perhaps i would have been fine with donating the unused eggs on but that just wasnt an option....
i had a call from the lovely ladies at the queensland fertility group to inform me of the successful birth and that the recipient was just over the moon...but the comments that really affected me and gave me that warm fuzzy feeling inside was "Fiona do you realise that you have now changed the lives of a total stranger with your donation'
Now that just makes it all worth it...
mmmm happy feelings...
SO IF EVER YOU HAVE CONSIDERED DONATION OF YOUR EGGS...LOOK INTO IT FURTHER OR CONTACT DENISE AT QLD FERTILITY GROUP...THERE CAN NEVER BE TOO MANY DONATIONS...AND WHAT COULD IT HURT TO INQUIRE...
THEY WERE WONDERFUL THEY LOOKED AFTER ME WITH GENIUNE CONCERN. THEY EVEN PHONED ME SEVERAL TIMES ON TOP OF THE NURSES AND DOCTORS FOLLOW UP CALLS TO MAKE SURE I WAS FINE HEALTHY ETC..
THESE WOMEN AND THIS SERVICE CHANGES PEOPLES LIVES AND ASSISTS IN PEOPLE SUCH AS MYSELF TO DONATE TO PEOPLE WITHOUT HAVING TO KNOW THEM..ANON
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This is it. this is the couple that i want to change their lives. so i contacted the fertility group and was welcomed by the most friendly staff full of information and willing to answer my million and one queries...
So off i went in did the blood tests, psyc test with hubby etc and off we went on hols. i told them i wanted to wait til i got back from melbourne..which the recipient and the staff were fine with. so came back and off we went i went in to see the doctor had my implenon removed went a bit hormonal for couple of days then went on the nasal spray...which i was like a 1 in 1000 that was allergic to it..i came out in hives...the doctor said we could swap over to a needle version or we could end it...nope on we went...so had the needles for two weeks. in the second week also had to have the hormone needle for two weeks. so basically once youre ready to go from the date they say go it is really only three weeks...then pick up day is after you inject a hormone release...
i am an egg making machine..on average my doctor said about 18 or so eggs.i had 26 well 25 as one wasnt mature enough to use...
her first go she place three eggs and got pregnant right away.
the pick up was quite simple really..i went in got to wear a stunning outfit matching hat and booties and all hehe...i then hopped on the table and went for a snooze.woke up and didnt even feel slightly different...i did have to have an additional drip due to the overstimulation (having more than usual amount of eggs) but wasnt an issue...i got some lovely flowers and some yummy food and drinks and then hubby and i went out for lunch on the way home as we didnt have any children with us...so nope not a problem no bloating no pain nothing...i cant understand why more women dont donate. I know everyone donating is not the same but most donations do not have any complications..and some people ask but they are like your children...and my response to that is well yes but so are all the undeveloped children that have gone to waste over my lifetime but i dont think of them as my own...and others ask bu t dont you want to know anything about them...and again my response is "well no i am sure they look like a baby....i do hope they have a happy life and are told about where they have come from etc. I hope they are healthy and in the end i know i have made a humongous change in someones life that a dollar amount cannot be placed on." I am wrapped she got one of each so that she may not ever have to go through it again and that she was successful her first transfer to skip the heartache that you read about so often. i have received a few letters and i can just read that she just doesnt even know where to begin to thank someone for doing such a thing and that is what is why i chose to do this in the first place.
so in march her little twins were born..a little boy and a little girl...
and she still has all those eggs to use if she wanted anymore children...shame you cant split them up in to two families...
i opted to not allow them to pass on my eggs as i dont want too many mes running around brisbane you just never know whom youre children might end up falling in love with when they are older was my basic reasoning behind this. although if you could opt to have them sent interstate then i think perhaps i would have been fine with donating the unused eggs on but that just wasnt an option....
i had a call from the lovely ladies at the queensland fertility group to inform me of the successful birth and that the recipient was just over the moon...but the comments that really affected me and gave me that warm fuzzy feeling inside was "Fiona do you realise that you have now changed the lives of a total stranger with your donation'
Now that just makes it all worth it...
mmmm happy feelings...
SO IF EVER YOU HAVE CONSIDERED DONATION OF YOUR EGGS...LOOK INTO IT FURTHER OR CONTACT DENISE AT QLD FERTILITY GROUP...THERE CAN NEVER BE TOO MANY DONATIONS...AND WHAT COULD IT HURT TO INQUIRE...
THEY WERE WONDERFUL THEY LOOKED AFTER ME WITH GENIUNE CONCERN. THEY EVEN PHONED ME SEVERAL TIMES ON TOP OF THE NURSES AND DOCTORS FOLLOW UP CALLS TO MAKE SURE I WAS FINE HEALTHY ETC..
THESE WOMEN AND THIS SERVICE CHANGES PEOPLES LIVES AND ASSISTS IN PEOPLE SUCH AS MYSELF TO DONATE TO PEOPLE WITHOUT HAVING TO KNOW THEM..ANON
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