Strollerderby
It Takes Three Sisters To Have One Baby
I never had a sister, but I used to vaguely wish for one. I say vaguely because while a part of me yearned for the intimacy that a sister supposedly would provide as opposed to the brother I was issued, another part really liked being left alone.
But if I had had a sister, I wonder whether I would have offered, say, my eggs to her? Or my womb?
Hard to say, really.
So yes, I’m a bit freaked out by the odd trio across the pond there in England who conspired to have a baby. One to provide the egg, one to grow it, and the third gets to keep the baby. Alex Patrick, 34, has a two-year-old son, Charlie, conceived from an
egg donated by her twin, Charlotte Pestell, which was carried by her elder
sister Helen Ritchie, 37. And now they’re doing it again.
So if I had had a sister, or two actually, I think I would have liked to be the egg-donating one. I hate pregnancy with a passion (which is likely why I did it 4 times), so I wouldn’t want to be the surrogate one. All the hellishness of pregnancy and you don’t get to keep the baby. Wait. Maybe that could work out, actually. Anyway. And I wouldn’t want to be the recipient, because, how do you reconcile yourself to this? Knowing me, there’d be this weird guilt/worthiness issue that plagued me. So that one’s out.
Unless maybe I could be the baby. That might work.
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Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amMy brother and SIL are trying, without success. If they asked me to be a surrogate, I’d do it in a flash. My H is the one who would need convincing. The idea of me carrying my brother’s baby is weird to him, even though the baby wouldn’t be genetically mine.
mnijtnc commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI don’t think I could donate an egg–I think I’d always feel like the baby was at least partly mine. But I would certainly let my sister borrow my uterus for nine months. I don’t enjoy being pregnant either, but I’d incubate my sister’s baby if she couldn’t do it herself.
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