Half-sibling

[judecorp]

I exchanged a few e-mails a while back with a woman on the Donor Sibling Registry who used Punk's donor. Today I got some pictures of her 6-year-old daughter. She is adorable. And she and Punk definitely resemble each other. It's kind of surreal.

She also let me know that the bank we used (Xytex) allows one man's sperm to go to forty families. FORTY. I think that is insane and crazy, and crazyinsane.

I worry that some day Punk will grow up and in her angsty teenage-ness will be upset about being "mass-produced." An assembly-line kid or something.

I hope that never happens.

Comments

[mayna.livejournal.com]

or she'll be happy that you CHOSE her for your family. :-)

[dzmonster.livejournal.com]

Given all teh trouble that you went to in order to "produce" her, mass produced hardly seems to apply.
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[kaleidoscopeeye.livejournal.com]

My thoughts, exactly.

[humanbeatbox.livejournal.com]

Oh my God - Punk's donor dad is WILT CHAMBERLAIN!

[sacharine.livejournal.com]

she's gonna be a tall, virile man when she grows up!

[hazeldragon.livejournal.com]

if she gets angsty about it you can tell her that she wasn't mass produced, she just has 39 bros and sistahs out there.

i think that is rad.

i mean really, punk is a cool kid. so to have sibs who are out there, rad like her, is pretty neat.

i hope she sees it that way, too.

[shanneeluee.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I always assumed you knew the donor, and that he was a personal friend.

[whod81.livejournal.com]

she does, i just really get around!!!

[sassywoman.livejournal.com]

Punk will know how much you loved her and wanted her. Does she have the option to ever contact her sperm donor?

[rexlezard.livejournal.com]

That is insane, crazyinsane.

Plus, not to freak you further, but Xytex only knows about pregnancies/births that are reported to them.

How many people do you think remember to report their kids' birth? Y'know, when they're busy and overwhelmed with one or more newborn(s).

If she ever gives you a hard time about it, just remind her that there are lots of options for kidneys if she should ever need one, and lots of opportunities for good karma if one of her genetic relations ever needs one. ;)

[violane.livejournal.com]

Forty families does seem like a lot. Is there a wide dispensation? Is there much of a chance Punk could randomly meet one of her half-siblings?

With these crazy quirks come the possibility of parenthood for a lot of families, so it seems like a good tradeoff! Also, if I were Punk, I'd be fascinated and intrigued at how I made my way into the world!

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

Supposedly, Canada is trying to maintain a registry of who was conceived with which sperm donors. The goal is to let kids conceived by sperm donation to check with the registry before dating / marrying someone else who was conceived by sperm donation.

One of my friends needed extensive fertility treatments to have her first son, and after he was weaned she donated eggs. A few times a year she gets a letter with an update on the daughter conceived from some of the donated eggs. Last I heard only one child had been conceived from her eggs though.

[hetterrific.livejournal.com]

It may be "mass produced" sperm-wise, but she has one family that really produced her and that really, really loves and wants her.

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

we used xytex too - but i've never seen any other families on the dsr who used our guy - but 40 families! yikes!

[childlight.livejournal.com]

We used Xytex also. The last time I looked I didn't see our donor on the dsr list.