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[quote=Anonymous]Our criteria, roughly in order of importance:
- proven donor. Prior cycles with good egg numbers and quality, healthy/live birth results, and/or their own children. Also the age of the donor factors in.
- least amount of clinical history in their family tree (heart disease, cancers, mental illness, longevity, etc...)
- could plausibly look related to us. This was the best piece of advice I got (as the mom) - to not look for someone who looked like me (because that won't happen) but to look for someone whose coloring and features could plausibly be a relative.
- openness to being contacted by the kids in the future
- education. We ended up choosing who didn't have the level of education we wanted. However, our doctor knew her and also had met her child and she vehemently assured us we had nothing to worry about in terms of intellectual ability.

We ended up w/ twins. Neither of them looks remotely like me. My son is a clone of his dad and my daughter doesn't look like any of us - so it will be fascinating to see if they ever connect w/ the donor and see a resemblance. My daughter is very much a clone of me in temperament and attitude though. :-)

FWIW, both of my kids are very bright. So I'm glad we didn't get too hung up on the education thing.

Good luck OP!!![/quote]

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