Here we go!

I've got a reply! In case you're wondering, here's the post I put up on the forum:

Hi,

I am a healthy, 27 year old Asian female, non-smoker, university graduate, etc.. and I would very much like to donate my eggs. Does anyone know which clinics or hospitals I can go to?

Are fertility clinics in Hong Kong allowed to advertise for egg donors?

Thanks.
F.

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M replied to my post, asking if I would like to donate my eggs to her because she is born without ovaries. I was immediately moved for some strange, inexplicable reason. Here I have, a stranger, a complete stranger who knows nothing about me (aside from my ethnicity and age), asking me for my eggs. How cool is that. I really liked the idea of helping another human being - and not just the superficial, give-up-a-seat-on-the-subway kind of way. This is truly helping someone else, giving a part of myself unconditionally to her.

I'm now communicating with her - she has her doubts about why I would go all the way out to help a stranger, understandably, and I on the other hand, am quite afraid of the child growing up and finding out about me and will look for me and want to start a relationship with me. Eeps. Too much TV, perhaps?

Anyway, I'm due to meet her doctor for a consultation on 18 February. Here we go!

The first (baby) step

I put up a post on a local Hong Kong website/forum where mothers or mothers-to-be congregate, discuss, gossip, encourage others through motherhood. It is strangely beguiling, this online buzzing community of real, brave women. If this wasn't an online platform, I would have imagined a large cafe with a pretty courtyard full of flowers, tables all filled with pregnant women or women with 2-3 kids in tow, chatting about everything; some will be breast-feeding, some cleaning up the mess the screaming toddler is creating, some kissing a new-born softly on his head. And I would be the one who sticks out like a sore thumb: no kids, only a dog, finding a table where I can be left alone to read yet another book from Richard Dawkins.

That's the first step, this post. Hopefully someone will give me an idea where to start and where I can go to to lay my golden eggs.