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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After multiple failed IVF treatments, the doctors have told my sister that there is no way she will have a biological child. She is devastated. Her fertility specialist recommends she use a donor egg. She asked me if I would be the donor so that she could have a genetic connection to the child. I feel for her and want to help, but I’m not entirely comfortable with the idea of being the egg donor. Has anyone been there, done that? How do you navigate the whole, “my mom is my aunt and my aunt is my mom” thing? Is it weird seeing a child who is genetically yours but who you are not directly raising? How does that change your family relationships? [/quote]

Kind of like grandparents? 25% rather than 50%, but otherwise the same…[/quote]

That's not how it works at all. You would directly share DNA with that baby, not just be part of the same family genetic pool. [/quote]

You don't really understand genetics, do you?[/quote]

Explain how you are a distant aunt or mere special friend to a baby born from your egg.[/quote]

I'm saying that someone who doesn't understand that grandparents "directly share DNA" with their grandchildren does not understand genetics, which may get to the root of many threads on this forum.[/quote]

Still waiting for an explanation.[/quote]

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