I am writing this letter for you, because, although I do not know you physically, I feel that I have you close and I owe you a large part of my happiness.
I don’t know where you are in the world, or if perhaps you are curious to meet me too, but through these words, which you probably won’t be able to read, I want to express the great feeling you generate in me and the great joy you gave to my family.
When I decided to become a mother I was 42 years old and my hopes were not high, my doctor tried everything before coming up with the recommendation of an egg donation treatment, and, although my first reaction to this diagnosis was not the best, over time I understood that beyond genes, a child is love, union and hope.
When I started the process in search of a donor, my doubts were many: What will that person be like? Will she be healthy? Will you donate your eggs of your own volition? Could it be that he looks like us? My mind began to sail on a boat of anxieties that made my wait longer and more distressing. I didn’t know anything about you and you were going to give me part of what from now on would be everything to me: my son.
I do not deny that I was afraid to accept a “little egg” from a person totally foreign to me. It was strange to know and recognize that my baby would only carry my husband’s genes and that I, in one way or another, would be the mother at heart. At first it was strange and I had to go through an emotional process that would allow me to accept the situation, but then that barrier that I had put on myself, disappeared when we started the process.
When I began to prepare my womb for the transfer, I understood that my body was getting ready to give life and, just at that moment, I understood that I could really be a mother and that that baby would be my greatest happiness.
After a few days, it’s time for your uptake and fertilization in the laboratory. According to what I was told, the process was done with fresh eggs, therefore, you were in the place where days later I would get to know the beautiful embryos that had formed and that were going to be transferred to me.
When I saw my baby on the screen shown to us in the laboratory before the transfer, I understood that those embryos were mine, and that in my prayers of gratitude from now on you would always be there, because that miracle of life was thanks to God, science, my family and you.
Today, after 8 months of pregnancy, I look forward to the moment when I can look my son in the eye. I don’t know who she will look like, but I know that in her heart there will always be that pure feeling that you transmitted to her by being one of the protagonists of this story.
Thank you for being my donor, for giving us love and for giving a little part of you so that my husband and I could make the dream of being parents come true. We promise you that this baby will be happy and that he will receive all the love in the world because for me he is the most important thing, THANK YOU!
*Egg donation in Colombia is an altruistic and anonymous act, for this reason it is not possible to generate a direct link between the donor and the recipient family.
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