How did you pick?

goingitalone

I'm just curious what criteria everyone is using to pick their donor. I'm looking at the donors who have advanced degrees as my number one criteria. Because I'm an accountant I would prefer someone with a different background, so I'm strongly leaning towards someone with a medical background. I would like to have the option of ID release but it's not necessary. What other criteria did you use?

hnwspiller

Janet

First we picked someone who was CMV negative, then ID options, and Caucasian, ... that REALLY limited our choices. After that I preferred someone with a creative background as I'm an art teacher, my partner is a writer.... and there he was.

Amirasmommy

I'm a single woman with a DD from a previous marriage. The most important thing for me was to try to match physical characteristics to my DD. She is fair with blond hair and blue eyes. I'm an medium toned with brown hair an green eyes. So I almost definitely need a donor with blonde hair and blue eyes. So that's where I looked first. Then I wanted above average intelligence at minimum...which most of these donors have. I also was looking for someone athletic to compensate for my lake there of. But I honestly think most of the child's personality and talent will have little to so with the donor and more to do with the individuality of the child and the environment they are raised in. So most important was physical appearance to match my DD. Good luck!

Mikko77

I knew for years that I wanted to have children. As time went by I ran into a few friends that were going through the process of ICI, IUI, IVF.. etc.. So that is when I started to look at the donor websites and cryobanks. It was so interesting, at the time I didn't really have a preference as long as they had at least a baby pic and some info about their health I was content to search and select. Then about 2 years ago I was blessed with my partner and we both wanted to get married and have kids together so we really started to look seriously ( my clock was ticking ) after we both looked we decided to have the following priorities: ID Options, Lifetime Pictures, skin tone, ancestry, health, and of course cost. So after all things considered we found the donor that worked best for us. I think it's important to look into the backgrounds and cultures researching was important to us because we knew that we would be selecting from donors that had a limited variety of backgrounds. The background of our donor was so interesting we started to pick out names and are even trying to learn the native language. I checked over and over again for months trying to see was there a better donor but none ever surfaced so last week Thursday we selected our donor and purchased. It was a very exciting feeling .. we are so happy and blessed to be able to have a chance at creating life and a family. Good Luck everyone in your process.. Be positive

girley

GeminiJai