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[quote=Anonymous]I (single woman) have done it twice. Once for when I was a patient at SG and once after I was pursing DE and had switched to an OOS clinic that had their own in-house person. For SG they handed me a piece of paper with a list of recommended people and I chose the one closest to my house.

Both times I found it helpful and fine. There was no aspect in which I felt like they were screening my viability bc they never really asked hard or follow-up questions to anything I said. Nor did they challenge any of my statements. I feel like if they were testing you they would actually make it more interactive than ask a question, get an answer, move to the next topic. In reality the way these sessions are set up I would imagine you would have to be a severely trouble person to not be able to hold it together enough for a 60 minute meeting.

They asked me about myself, I talked to them about why I wanted to have a child, a little about my own family and background. I was very new to the whole process when I did the SG one and after the fact I read an article about the types of people who pursue single motherhood by choice and I realized the background questions all went to the typical traits which I have. (Ie that single moms tend to be highly educated, professionally successful and have close ties to their family).

Both focused on how to talk to the child about their donor origins and stressed the importance of it being an often repeated story that the child will alway know about and never a wrenching surprise. In my case the child will not have a father so it will be all the more necessary to talk about it all. The 2nd person recommended I practice telling them when the child is an infant and doest really know what you are saying bc it will help you get the story down and that all kids love to hear their birth story so just incorporate it into any of those tellings.  I thought that was good advice.  Echoing what someone posted above the second person who was in-house at my current clinic also talked to me about their interactions with the donor egg candidates (in general, not my donor). 
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