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[quote=Anonymous]PP 23:21 again.  We have decided that we'll tell our children in age appropriate ways as they grow up.  As the other PP said, we will tell them both truths, that they did not come from mommy's egg and that she loves them as much as if they did come from mommy's egg.  We spent a lot of time during our very long (nearly 5 year) journey to parenthood, meeting other families on-line that have dealt with this (on an on-line ARTS forum) and the general consensus from those many families is that you do not want the child(ren) to think that there is anything wrong or embarrassing or that needs to be hidden about their creation.  They are normal children who are loved by normal parents (well, almost).  If you treat is as if it is worth knowing, but not wrong, then they'll learn to understand it that way as well.  If you hide it and they find out, then they will feel that it was something that needed to be hidden and not discussed and there is something wrong with it.  For the families that we spoke with, it was emotionally healthier for the children if the parents treated this as a normal part of their lives.  So that's how we'll try to handle this.[/quote]

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