Would You, Could You With A Mouse?

[Homicidalheathen]

Or serve them with ham?

But seriously you can get 6,000 bucks compensation for this if your healthy, wpth and dont smoke and stuff.

http://www.arr1.com/home.html

[sass_in_the_pants]

You know what? I wouldn't do it for 6K but if my sister asked me to do it for her I would. And I wouldn't charge her a nickel.

[pomba gira]

I thought about it at one point but it sounds like the fertility drugs you have to take cause all kinds of unpleasant & uncomfortable side effects. Plus I had a major drug habit at the time which I didn't think would go over too well in the screening process. Now, alas, I'm too old... I'd sell a kidney in a heartbeat tho, given the chance.

[Crazed Vampyress]

i wouldnt have a problem donating eggs since i dont plan on ever using any. but i have heard such scary things about what can happen....

[Sybil]

I dont think I could.

I have stopped/started back up smoking TOO many times..

and back in the day i had some vices that might have messed something up..

wouldnt take the chance for those reasons..

[Onyx]

I believe I would worry about the child/children and always wonder.

There are so many unwanted kids too. Makes me want to suggest adoption to people who consider this. I know adoption's a long difficult process, but so is IVF.

[freydis]

If it didnt involve the fertility drugs, maybe. I'd actually be more likely to donate them for stem cell research.....

[glc]

I would not could not with a mouse

[pomba gira]

I believe I would worry about the child/children and always wonder.

There are so many unwanted kids too. Makes me want to suggest adoption to people who consider this. I know adoption's a long difficult process, but so is IVF.

This would be an issue for me, also. I try not to be judgmental... figure it's something I just can't understand since I've never had the desire to bear a child... but spending thousands of $$ trying to have a child "of our own" seems extremely selfish to me. There are so many children out there in need of loving homes.

[BrassFusion]

i would totally do it if i kept enough of my eggs to make sure i could conceive one day, and i was "htwp" or whatever fancy way you had of saying "skinny."

only thing is... even if i WAS skinny... that wouldn't really change the eggs, would it? if my weight problem was genetic (well, a genetic predisposition perhaps, if not a glandular problem), the eggs would still carry that. is that why they include that factor, or are "big lady" eggs inferior in some other way not influenced by genes?

[Kit Kat P]

I've thought about it, called a couple of places, I have been offered up to $10,000 but I'm still not sure how I feel about a little running around out there; especially since I can't meet mini-me.

[Homicidalheathen]

..and you have to be in your 20's. I have been kinda sick since age 22 so it is never been an option for me.

I too, would wonder where my offspring is.

Know I try to seem hardcore but I am sorta attached to my stupid little eggs lol.

Still have one ovary so if the Government or powers that be ever realize just how wonderful and one of a kind I am maybe they could harvest them.....

LOL

No way would I care or want anyone to pay so much to get my eggs out though seriously. Too many people here and I already cloned myself once......well twice lol.

[sass_in_the_pants]

i would totally do it if i kept enough of my eggs to make sure i could conceive one day, and i was "htwp" or whatever fancy way you had of saying "skinny."

only thing is... even if i WAS skinny... that wouldn't really change the eggs, would it? if my weight problem was genetic (well, a genetic predisposition perhaps, if not a glandular problem), the eggs would still carry that. is that why they include that factor, or are "big lady" eggs inferior in some other way not influenced by genes?

I don't think the difference is in the eggs themselves. I'm sure your eggs are lovely, Brass.

I think it's the process for getting them out of you - they stick a huge needle into your abdomen to get your eggs out and I think that additional weight makes the process more difficult or cumbersome to put the needle in. And they shoot you up with a bunch of hormones before they do all of this, and the hormones are fat-soluble, so it might just be that certain risk factors increase as the weight of the donor increases.

I've thought about it, called a couple of places, I have been offered up to $10,000 but I'm still not sure how I feel about a little running around out there; especially since I can't meet mini-me.

10 grand! Damn girl, you must have some good eggs!!!

[Kit Kat P]

10 grand! Damn girl, you must have some good eggs!!!

No my family is just really good at breeding. I may not have had children before, but no one in my family has miscarried and the number of siblings in each family is at least 4. And then throw in fair skin and red hair and you get a little extra. I hate to say it, but I was told that it was mostly white families so a little mo' dough.

[BrassFusion]

No my family is just really good at breeding. I may not have had children before, but no one in my family has miscarried and the number of siblings in each family is at least 4. And then throw in fair skin and red hair and you get a little extra. I hate to say it, but I was told that it was mostly white families so a little mo' dough.

heh.

now, this is TOTALLY OFF TOPIC... but i think it's hilarious that people would care about the race of the person they got donated eggs from instead of considering only factors like health, intelligence, personality, etc

[freydis]

I don't think the difference is in the eggs themselves. I'm sure your eggs are lovely, Brass.

I think it's the process for getting them out of you - they stick a huge needle into your abdomen to get your eggs out and I think that additional weight makes the process more difficult or cumbersome to put the needle in. And they shoot you up with a bunch of hormones before they do all of this, and the hormones are fat-soluble, so it might just be that certain risk factors increase as the weight of the donor increases.

10 grand! Damn girl, you must have some good eggs!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all you had to say was big needle.

OH, HELL NOES.

[pomba gira]

heh.

now, this is TOTALLY OFF TOPIC... but i think it's hilarious that people would care about the race of the person they got donated eggs from instead of considering only factors like health, intelligence, personality, etc

No different from people who only want to adopt caucasian infants when there are hordes of non-white kiddies waiting for loving families. Like, what- you want to be able to lie & tell errone you actually gave birth to the crumbsnatcher? I totally don't get it. I can understand not feeling able to deal with a special needs child but rejecting a child just because of her skin color or because she's a toddler?

I know I tend to harangue on this topic but when I worked for Carmen Harlan I was very involved in her segments for getting kids adopted... and it's absolutely heartbreaking how many sweet babies are in need of homes. Growing up in the foster care system is generally not a real positive experience. And I don't care how much "red tape" you have to go through to adopt- it can't possibly be any more harrowing or time-consuming than the whole infertility routine.

[Homicidalheathen]

I actually had some guy tell me once when I was younger......you should have kids. Your family is so pure and your of good breading. The blacks are outnumbering the whites......ect......ect.....

I would have smacked him but he was this huge big tough biker guy.

[BrassFusion]

No different from people who only want to adopt caucasian infants when there are hordes of non-white kiddies waiting for loving families.

Yep. That's crazy, too.

[Kit Kat P]

No different from people who only want to adopt caucasian infants when there are hordes of non-white kiddies waiting for loving families. Like, what- you want to be able to lie & tell errone you actually gave birth to the crumbsnatcher? I totally don't get it. I can understand not feeling able to deal with a special needs child but rejecting a child just because of her skin color or because she's a toddler?

I know I tend to harangue on this topic but when I worked for Carmen Harlan I was very involved in her segments for getting kids adopted... and it's absolutely heartbreaking how many sweet babies are in need of homes. Growing up in the foster care system is generally not a real positive experience. And I don't care how much "red tape" you have to go through to adopt- it can't possibly be any more harrowing or time-consuming than the whole infertility routine.

My parents used to run a foster home I really hope to do the same one day. I learned so much both good and bad. So many good kids in bad situations.

[Homicidalheathen]

...I still wonder if when a celebrity adopts an infant of another race and from a poor country if it is not just self promo.....

Hell you get tired of the kid, just call the nanny.