Tuesday, 07 July 2009

  • When Times Are Tough, Sell Your Eggs?

    When I first moved here to NYC, I was flat broke and was trying to find creative and mostly legal ways to keep myself afloat. One of the things I considered was egg donation - you can make up to $8000 and actually help someone who can't conceive herself - and apparently I wasn't the only one who's considered it. Via USA Today:

    Before the recession, Carol Miller-Woods, donor coordinator at North Hudson IVF in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., got about eight calls a week from potential egg donors. Now she gets that many daily.

    She also has gotten calls from at least 100 men inquiring about donating their "eggs."

    "Times are that tough, I guess," she says.

    whoops.

    Have you ever thought of donating eggs or sperm to make money or does the idea seem weird to you?

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Comments (55)

  • ViciousGrin63@xanga

    I haven't.


    But my brother did.
  • xourlastendeavorx@xanga

    Hmm. Nah. I think of my bloodline as special, and I want to know and love and grow to know my offspring- my children.
  • green_bean115@xanga

    I applied to donate my eggs, since I lost my job.
  • goofball4@xanga

    I couldnt bring myself to use my eggs for money
  • Passionflwr86@xanga

    Well... it is 'yours.' So why not sell it? I'm not sure if I ever would - but I'd be more apt to if I knew I could contribute to helping someone else have a kid. That would be wonderful...
  • JessxMaxine@xanga

    i've thought about it. but i don't think i ever would.


    xo
  • aurastar@xanga

    I wouldn't donate solely to make money, though the cash would be a bonus.  I'd like the idea of helping bring a child into the world with a family that actually wants to love and care for someone rather than someone who was forced into it by unfortunate circumstance.
  • cmdr_keen@xanga

    My fiancee and I have had this discussion, and we decided that we couldn't cope with the knowledge that someone might be out there carrying our genetic outline without us knowing anything about it.


    So, as much as the financial aspects might entice us, we're going to get by with actual work for the time being.
    If I could donate blood, then I'd do that, most definitely.
  • milubbles@xanga

    I told my sister to do it...

    But she got a job. :P
  • kaybaby666@xanga

    I'm thinking about it now lol!!!!

    It is something I would do but I never thought about the money aspect!
    I'm gonna look into that!
  • GiantUnicorn@xanga

    My brother asked me to donate my eggs to help a friend of his conceive. I would be paid $4000. Which I didn't feel was enough. There are a lo of emotional and physical hardships you go through when donating eggs.

    Donating sperm is so easy for extra cash. If you don't mind your kids finding you one day. o_O
  • musinuite@xanga

    It would depend on the situation, really. The idea of someone out there composed of 50% me would be odd, but then you have to take into consideration the fact that they wouldn't necessarily look like you at all--after all, how much of what you look like comes from your phenotype instead of your genotype?

    I'd definitely consider it, especially if I needed the cash.
  • Meowmeowkimmaee@xanga

    Whoa, whoa, whoa...$8000?! I would be kind of worried if those kids came to me later in life, but maybe I would just make up a bad profile for myself so my eggs would look undesirable: "Uhh I have a little drinking problem and I need blood transfusions every week or else I faint and I'm also a diabetic and cancer patient." Just joking though. I don't think I could do that.
  • Mike_Malignant@xanga

    i wouldnt sell my sperm because they buy it cheap but if i had eggs yes i would
  • pinkdagger@xanga

    Donating sperm is one thing - once you're accepted and ready to go, it's a quick process.

    Donating eggs is ENTIRELY different. The money may be big, but women have to be rigorously screened both mentally and physically, go on birth control that can potentially really mess up your cycle. It's a long, drawn out process where they prepare your body to ovulate several times - hyperovulation - in a short span of time so that when they do perform the procedure itself, they receive the greatest yield. It can be painful because they insert a large needle to retrieve them, and when it comes to contrast, it's obviously way more invasive.

    In all honesty, knowing all the facts I do so far, I figure if I apply when I'm desperately low on money and I do get approved, by the time I'm ready for them to take the eggs, I could have used all that time to tie together a few jobs and get myself back on my feet and start a rainy day fund, avoiding that kind of physical and hormonal trauma and potential emotional stress.

    Nuts to the idea of kids finding you someday, that's a really low and trivial "risk" and if you ask me, money is definitely the wrong reason to do it. It's not quick and easy cash in the least.
  • MangoWOW@xanga

    I have definitely thought about it and I'm actually quite interested. The only thing that worries me is the actual procedure (will it hurt?) and my hesitation to have kids. I mean, right now I'm telling myself I'm not sure I want kids but then again I'm only 20! I can't make that decision right now!

    How many eggs do they take anyways? I'd rather have kids in my late twenties/early thirties but what if I don't find the right guy until I'm almost 40! Will my eggs last until then? lol
  • anonymous

    I've considered it. Still am. My bf wouldn't like that idea, and my mom would kill me, though.

    I'm almost 23 and am still unsure about having kids. When times are tough, what other choices you got? I'd rather do this than dance at a strip joint.
  • helvetebrann@xanga

    The only thing stopping me from doing it is my fiance who can't stand the idea of it.  Personally, I'm all for helping me through college and helping someone else conceive.
  • MissPixieGlitter@xanga

    harvesting eggs can really mess up your ovaries. and no, if i ever have kids, i want to raise them myself.
  • la_faerie_joyeuse@xanga

    I would do it, but the hormones would kill me. I would hate to be so miserable for several months at a time, besides not really being able to have sex for a good period of time. That would be really difficult.
  • a_single_raindrop@xanga

    I don't think I would. >.< I would rather take care of my own children than go around wondering if that boy or girl could be my potential child.

  • INxEXISTENCE@xanga

    I think its belittling one's self.... but then again I am from an Asian family... and most traditionally influenced Asians would get another job whatever it might be and if one already has two get three. And 8,000$ is not much... heck it can barely cover tires and insurance for one year for me.
  • journalofsparkles@xanga

    Apparently the recovery process is super painful. I could not possibly imagine having little people that look almost like me running around without me being the actual mother, or at least having some sort of role in their lives.
  • Cest_LaxVie@xanga

    The way I see it, if I can help someone, it's good. If I can get paid for it, it's even better.
  • Cest_LaxVie@xanga

    @helvetebrann@xanga - I totally agree. It's a win-win situation. 

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