We just talked about how there aren’t enough egg donors in the UK – but the same is true for the Gold Coast in Australia.
The Gold Coast website featured a story about Willem and Tracie Roozendaal:
”I put an advertisement up in a childcare centre and the lady at the front counter just threw the paper back at me … and asked me to leave,” she said.
”What’s offensive to them about someone being absolutely desperate to have a child?
”It’s devastating for us because we’re hanging on by a thread and these people are just really blase and taking their time.”
The couple also thought their advertisement in the Gold Coast Bulletin had been successful.
”We had one positive email response from the advert and we emailed her right back, then never heard from her again,” Mrs Roozendaal said.
"I was devastated and so was my husband after being told by my fertility specialist at age 38 that I had no option but to consider adoption or donor eggs (according to my doctor I was out of eggs and gave me 4% chance of getting pregnant and a 2% chance of carrying a baby to full term). After much research and dozens of hours reading infertility related articles and posts online, I have found your book! [...] After one month of trying I became pregnant and had a beautiful healthy boy. Nine months after that I did everything in your book again and after 2 months of trying I got pregnant again and gave birth to another perfect little boy."
