Putting own dna in donor egg

[Kismet_x]

My friend believes if you use another womans egg it can be a shell whereby the woman deciding to carry the baby can have her dna put in that egg. I said I don't believe this is at all possible. Please can you advise x

[Monkeywap]

it is possible but it is only available for women who carry mitochondrial disease. Google 3 person ivf

[Kismet_x in reply to Monkeywap]

Oh wow. Just googled it and found this google.com/amp/s/news.sky.c...

[Hidden in reply to Kismet_x]

Yes but this is not for parents with donor egg babies and is not the DNA that is responsible for passing on the characteristics that make a baby look like us. It’s for making sure babies aren’t born with diseases or disorders of their genetic parents.

All donors are tested to make sure that there aren’t any genetic disorders to be passed on so this treatment wouldn’t be necessary in DEIVF.

However, do look up epigenetics and donor egg ivf. Epigenetics are shaped in the womb and the woman carrying, while she didn’t pass on DNA, does have an influence on that 🥰

Love from a DEIVF mother to twin girls

[Tryinglate in reply to Hidden]

Thank you for this. A bit of a different question but how did you handle telling the girls? And the world, if at all? What did you do and what helped?

[Hidden in reply to Tryinglate]

Well my girls are only 18mo so they don’t know yet. But there’s a lot of resources an about this. The first place I’d to look at the Donor conception network. They have books to help with telling family and story books for reading to the children. We read a book called our story to them and we hope that reading these and talking about it very openly from a young age will mean it’s just part of their story growing up and not some huge secret or surprise… just a fact if life of you will. In terms of other people, we have limited out to close family and a few choice friends. The counselling that we did at our clinic (compulsory) helped us to see that this is really their story (the IVF part is ours but the donor part is theirs) and it’s not a secret but private and is really up to them who they tell. I caveat this will of course children talk about things so the open approach might mean that they talk about this as school and I guess I’ll have to navigate that at the time. I suspect I’ll be giving the teachers a heads up!

With family and friends at th beginning I was very clear about language that I was comfortable with and only refer to the donor as the donor and not a ‘genetic parent’ because they aren’t a parent and I’m sensitive about this. Also, regardless of genetics, the one who carry’s the baby is the legal mother, including surrogates! So they aren’t the mother! But now my children are here in less precious about it because it’s clear we are bonded and I’m mummy! 🥰 feel free to ask any questions xx

[PinkCat22 in reply to Hidden]

Hi Lana. This is such a lovely post. X

[Hidden in reply to PinkCat22]

Aww thanks! 🥰