Currently a great story is going around – about how a 55-year-old woman and her husband in London took things in their own hands. They were trying to become parents for years and finally resorted to advertising on 50 public busses to find an egg donor. Here’s what they wrote:
‘We’ll never be Mummy and Daddy unless a wonderful woman aged 36 or under can help us by donating some of her eggs. You are our only chance of happiness.’
See the ad for yourself:
Thanks to one of the women who responded to the ad, Linda and Richard Weeks are now happy parents of little Katy.
You can read more about this story on BBC, ThisIsLondon, on KentNews, The West Australian, Kent Online, TopNews, Daily Mail, and other places. I wish all the best for their family.
"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."
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As long as all parties involved are happy, then this is certainly a success story. It makes me a little sad, though, to think that this couple couldn’t have found joy in adopting one the many unwanted children in the world.
Adopting a child isn’t always as easy as one imagines. Also, there was a great discussion going on about this topic where one of the participants said that it’s not the duty of the infertile to take care of the unwanted children. You can read more about this here: http://robyn.eggdonationagency.com/?p=6
It’s a really insightful post and an interesting disuccion, so check it out.