Okay, so Nicole and I are pretty certain that we are going to be moving up the time frame for babymaking from August to May. This, of course, is due to our ever increasing desire to have babies! We are seriously interested and even more so after our newest nephew, Luca, was born some time this past October. (We got him the cutest onesies of a cat, a ghost and a pumpkin!)
With this whole talk of moving up the date of hiring a doc to get my wife knocked up, I came home today with a new found zeal for scrolling through the never ending list of sperm donors. We are planning to shell out the $60 to do a facial matching program with Fairfax Cryobank, which basically means that I need narrow down my picks to five or six donors. Then the staff will match my photos with adult photos of the donors to hopefully find one of the six that best looks like me (matches my facial features).
There are really only two things that I really want in my pick besides having some of my facial features: tall (probably bc I'm only 5'8 and I want him or her to grow-up to be able to see over the offense line) and medium skin tone of some sort (I have olive and I'm trying to counter Nicole looking like a ghost). I have narrowed down to 4 choices right now. . .although I might add more later.
Currently, I have:
Donor 4160: Swiss-English-Swedish-Norweg./German-Polish, 6'1", Med light skin tone with blue eyes and brown wavy hair
Donor 4164: German/German, 6'3", Med light skin tone with green eyes and blond curly hair.
Donor 2716: Danish-German/French Canadian, 5'11", Med skin tone with brown eyes and brown straight hair.
Donor 4100: English-Irish/Czech-English, 5'11", Med skin tone with hazel eyes and brown curly hair.
My first thought is that I don't have curly hair, but I would love to have a curly haired little baby. I don't know what that means or if it even means anything, but I did notice that all but one of those donors has hair or either the wavy or curly variety. This is not something I was after when I was going through the list picking my favs.
My other thought is although I don't remember which one it is now, one of my donor's father's father die of a brain tumor. Same as my father's father. I don't really understand it, but for some reason this is comforting to me. I suppose it makes me feel like we are using my genetic code or at least more so. On the other hand, is it wrong of me to potentially pick a donor with a family history of brain cancer? Part of me says "no, it's not" because there are so many reasons and ways one can get cancer now anyway that it probably doesn't really matter, but then again I have the option of choosing a genetic code that is less likely to result in cancer if I so decide. Maybe I'm thinking to hard about this. More than anything I'm pretty satisfied, happy I would say, with a donor pick that resembles some of my own family's health problem such as this brain tumor guy or the one I thought about picking who has anxiety (I think I cut him because he was too short anyway). After all, it doesn't really matter does it? God has a date and time lined up already anyway.
The moral is that I have narrowed down to four "favorites" and that we are moving the date of getting started with this whole adventure sooner because, well, we really can't freakin' wait!
