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I'm a genuine male who would like to offer the joy of becoming a mum. There are a number of situations I could find acceptable such as donation to a heterosexual couple, a gay female couple or a woman by herself.
Here goes the cringy self advertisement: I am an attractive and healthy 29 year old male with a university education and no known genetic conditions. I am 5'9" with brown hair, blue eyes and a very athletic body (six-pack and all that jazz). I am of Scottish descent and I am white caucasian. I am kind-natured, caring, intelligent and I make people laugh a lot - like my father does : ) My mother is degree educated also. My parents who are in their 50's are a healthy weight, as of course am I. There is no history of cancer in my known family, or of lung or heart disease. Two of my grandparents have lived into their mid-90's and I feel I can offer good genes. I've been doing a lot of reading into donor insemination and have become a bit of a textbook expert! So if anyone has questions about law stuff especially - get in touch.
For the actual donation, my help would probably be to provide sperm 2 days before ovulation and the day of ovulation but I am flexible if you'd like to try different timings. As pregnancy may not be instant, I am probably more able to help someone who lives within a reasonable travel distance. However, I am happy to report I have created 7 pregnancies, with 4 recipients conceiving on the first attempt, which I think is pretty lucky. I've since found out that I have a high sperm count (on average ~90 million sperm per ml after 3 days abstinence, which means about 390 million sperm cells per donation) so it could be just that. 3 of the pregnancies are boys and we don't know about the other 4 yet.
I really want to be able to give someone the lasting joy of parenthood - even if it's not what I want personally in my life. On the issue of contact, I think it would be unfair for me to interfere with the parenting of the child and contact with the child would likely just confuse them. I would always be available to the parents of the child however. The guidelines made by the fertility organisations and government make it very clear that anonymous donating is extremely harmful to the mental wellbeing of the donor conceived person and so being a known-donor is very important to me. As per the guidelines I would make myself available to the parents throughout the child's life for example for medical questions or information about my genes. It goes without saying that I would be available for contact by the donor conceived person or their family at maturity whether this is 18 or another age. It would be up to the donor conceived person if they chose to contact me with questions or whatever. It is a basic human right to know one's biological origins and I strongly agree with the 'U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child' with regard to donor identity and of course how the UK HFEA deal with this also. So if I decided to donate to a particular person I would do everything possible to facilitate conception. If you would like to talk to me, please just get in touch - I promise to reply, even if my reply is not immediate : ) The photo is of me, taken last summer and I have lots of photos I can email.
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