First visit to the doctor

Dr C is such a lovely lady. She has excellent bedside manners, is gentle, approachable and when she looks at you, you can almost feel all the ruffles and anxieties all smoothed and hushed.

I presented all my questions to her, which were mainly on the legality of egg donation in Hong Kong (information on this is very scarce on the internet). I got confirmation from her that the woman who gives birth to the child will be the legal parent and the egg donor will have no parental rights whatsoever. It was such a relief for me to have that in black and white, and to have it in bold on the documents.

M mentioned in our correspondence that if I wanted to donate eggs, Dr C said I cannot be a virgin. I raised this with the doc because it just didn't make any sense to me. The first thing that came to me was "Why not?!". A quick search on Google seems to point to the fact that there are religious/ethical issues and implications to be reckoned with if a virgin donates her eggs. WTF? As if donating eggs or sperm isn't already subverting all the religious norms. Well, I am a staunch atheist and I don't really care about that; much to my delight, Dr C said it's not because of the religious or ethical issues but because it will be too painful for a virgin to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound. Not once, but several times along the procedure. Ahhhh, so das ne!

There will be a compulsory counselling session with another doctor and after that I will have to go for my first transvaginal ultrasound, full physical exam, blood tests and the whole shebang.