She Doesn’t Want Kids But Donated 41 Eggs to Help Strangers–And Celebrates Donor Baby’s Birthday Every Year
A person who doesn’t want kids has donated 41 eggs to help strangers become parents—and celebrates the birthday of her ‘donor baby’ every year.
Yasmin Sharman was concerned by the lack of black donors, so signed up with TFP Fertility in London to be a donor when she 18.
Since then, the 26-year-old has donated 41 eggs, which eventually resulted in the birth of a baby boy to a loving family.
“When I found out that my donation had resulted in the birth of a baby boy I was ecstatic,” Yasmin recalls. “I celebrate the baby’s birthday every year with my friends.”
“It makes me so happy and grateful to be part of somebody’s life, being able to contribute to a family that may have been going through so much emotional turmoil.
“Knowing they have a family now makes me so happy.”
When the teen decided she didn’t want children of her own, she wondered about helping other couples who were struggling with their remaining choices.
Yasmin searched the web for ‘egg donation in London’ and came across TPF Boston Place Fertility—and booked an appointment.
“When I walked through the door, I was nervous, but then it hit me. It was exciting to realize that what I was about to do would impact people.” She described the staff as extremely helpful and lovely: “I felt so supported by them.”
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After giving her a health check-up and reviewing her medical history, they accepted her application. Yasmin has donated a total of three times, most recently in April, despite having to inject herself with hormones multiple times per day.
Egg donors need to inject themselves for 14 days to suppress their natural hormone production, before a second set of injections to stimulate production. A day or two before the eggs are collected, donors receive a hormone injection to help the eggs mature and then the eggs are collected during a procedure.
“I find the process quite easy, I self-inject two or three times a day, for eleven or twelve days, with medicines which stimulate my hormones and encourage my eggs to grow.
“(With) the pregnancy hormones, if I look out of the window and see a cute couple on a bus, I’m likely to burst into tears.”
“I was asked about my reasons for donating, and they checked if I would potentially be happy to be contacted in 18 years,” she said. “I am already happy for that to happen.”
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Even though she describes 18 years as a long way away, she’s hopeful that children born with the help of her eggs will reach out to her, when they get to the age.
“It would be interesting and lovely to meet them.”
Celebrating their birthdays annually serves as a great reminder that she’s created real happiness.
“I have contributed to something good. So many people want children but don’t have a choice. I’m young and I have so many eggs.”
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