Saturday, March 7, 2009
My future children
My personal choices and thoughts about my future family and the children I may or may not have most likely differ from the majority of other women. I am 100% certain I want to have children in the future. My personal wish is, when the time is right, to have 2 children. Now the way things may different to most is that I know for a fact neither of these children will be birthed by me and if things follow my wishes only one of my 2 hopeful children will actually be of blood relation to me. I guess I should explain: I am a lesbian and I plan to have children with my partner of 3 years no when we decide the time is right for us. Now I personally do not want to give birth to children. The pregnancy process is something I can do without if given the option. Now this works out quite well with my girlfriend. She absolutely and without any doubt or questions wants kids and wants to be pregnant them. Now obviously, our children can not, biologically, be BOTH of ours. Our personal plans are for her to give birth to our first child which will biologically be hers. Now the subject of the father is still up in the air. She has a particular donor that she wants to use. I do not know this man and am not particularly comfortable with him being used. I would prefer to use an anonymous donor. Recently my girlfriend brought up the idea of using my brother as a donor for our first child which I havent come to a decision about. As far as our second child, my girlfriend wants to birth our child but with the use of my egg. I am open to this because it would of course allow me to have a biological son or daughter but I dont find it to be a necessity. Both me and my girlfriend will have parental rights of any and all of our children. Whether or not I have a biological connection to my future children will in no way, shape or form have ANY effect on my love and connection to my children. I believe that there are many other and more important aspects other than biology to make a strong family and parent. I am completely confident in mine and my girlfriends ability to be an excellent parent and I have the utmost confidence that we will build a fantastic family regardless of the fact of whether or not it may be the typical or "normal" families that people are used to.
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I think it is fabulous that you and your girlfriend are making all the decisions about children before starting the process. So many couples start families by accident or they know they are ready to have a child together, but they never discuss things like how many children they want. My husband and I both knew we wanted children, but he wanted 2 and I wanted at least 4. We ended up having 2, but I have always felt a bit of loss and resentment at not having a larger family.
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