Becoming a mother
was never something I expected to be hard. I certainly wasn’t prepared for the
variety of emotions I would endure while facing infertility with my husband.
Egg donation was not something I was familiar with as I began my pursuit of pregnancy, but thanks to the marvels of reproductive
science, I can finally call myself a mommy. Here’s why I chose to use donor
eggs to start my family.
Intrauterine insemination and in vitro
fertilization did not work for me.
Like many other
couples, we tried plenty of other methods to conceive, and they were not
producing results. Each attempt had us boarding that emotional roller coaster
again: apprehension, hope, positive thinking mixed with utter fear, and
anxiety. After a while, I had to decide whether it was more important to keep
trying to conceive with my own eggs or to move forward with an option that
might finally allow me to cradle a newborn in my arms.
In my case, I had
a low ovarian reserve, which means that I did not have ample eggs left in my ovaries after 30-some years of working to achieve
career goals and meet the right partner. For other women, egg donation might be
necessary due to premature menopause or certain medical treatments that affect
fertility.
