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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's a good idea to check in with your nurse or donor coordinator about what is usually done.

At the out of state clinic I went to, they gave us gift guidelines (of course gifts were optional).  There was a dollar limit.  I chose a gift card to a local sporting goods store, as our donor is very outdoorsy.

We are semi-anonymous with our donor.  We've exchanged email messages (passed anonymously through the clinic), and our donor has agreed to sign up for the Donor Sibling Registry within a specified period after the clinic informs her of a live birth.

I think that a lot of the responses in this thread are from people who can't imagine being donors themselves because they would have a hard time not seeing the child as their own.  I don't think most women who actually donate feel that way.  They have to go through psych screening, and I imagine that would weed out those who have issues with the implications of donating their eggs.  I definitely got the sense from our donor's messages and her profile that she really wanted to help infertile couples have babies.  I feel good about the gift we gave her, and I feel confident that if there were some sensitive issue, the donor coordinators would have intervened.[/quote]

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