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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]If it makes you feel better, OP, the gestational mother’s DNA does indirectly contribute to any embryo implanted within her, as it’s her genes that determine whether or not certain genes in the fetus get “switched on” or not. MicroRNA is what you’d want to google if interested[b]

In short, you’ll have a biological connection to the baby regardless. I’m not sure it would even be “fair,” then, to try to ensure your husband doesn’t have one.[/quote]

Sorry but this isn’t a big deal. Epigenetics gets blown way out of proportion in the infertility world in order to make women feel they have more impact on the baby than they actually do. [/quote]

Agree. And I think men tend to use that argument with women to have them use donor eggs. The fact of the matter is that it is my fertility that was ruined - not his - by his actions - delaying years. [/quote]
+1 Everyone seems to accept that it's utterly natural for men to be uncomfortable going the route of donor sperm, yet somehow women are callous for not wanting to play surrogate for their husband and another woman? I find the conversations around this so intellectually dishonest. Poll 20 men if they would go for their wives impregnated by donor sperm. Then ask yourself why you already knew exactly how they would answer.[/quote]

At least infertile men who want another child (a position in which OP finds herself) would not contort themselves into silly pretzels exclaiming "if not my sperm, then not her egg either!"  I mean does a man want his wife impregnated by donor sperm just for the hell of it? no.  But an infertile man who wants to have children would not kid himself about what his options are: donor sperm or bubkes.[/quote]
Are you kidding?! If roles were reversed, there would be a 100-page thread of men ranting “dude your wife made you wait to have kids knowing your fertility would diminish and now that decided she wants a baby, she’s all “aw let’s just use that guy’s sperm and I’ll have his baby mmkay?” I swear some women don’t know men at all and worse, they “contort themselves into pretzels” to sacrifice for men what they wouldn’t in a million years do for women.[/quote]

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