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Baby Daddy
Speaking of gay parents, it looks like the gay guys on Six Feet Under are going to be with child soon. It also looks like they're going to rip off my years-old idea of how to have a bio-kid with my partner. For the record of this blog, and in case I make said idea a reality someday, I just have to say I thought of it before I saw it on the show.
For years I've thought that, maybe, when she was over eighteen, I might ask my gorgeous little sister to donate one of her eggs to my cause. I might then ask my boyfriend to fertilize said egg with his own stuff. Then we might have a surrogate carry the child. This hypothetical baby would have genes from both my side and his making it, in a way, biologically both of ours, a part of each of us.
I don't know if I'll ever do this, but, for the record, I thought of it before David and Keith did.
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Patrick and I have talked about that. But no one's clued in his sister to the idea yet, and it's just a little bit important that she be okay with the whole thing.
Posted by Nick on 06/ 8/05 at 12:39 AM08
On "Friends," didn't Phoebe just carry her brother's babies? They weren't actually hers (not from her eggs) -- they were his and his wife's, but she was the, um, carrier? Correct me if I'm wrong...
Posted by Patrick (crash) on 06/ 8/05 at 12:44 AM08
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They did this on "The Broken Hearts Club"...and that movie's been out for a while (2000.) The gay brother provides his sperm to his lesbian sister's partner, so that the lesbian couple could have a kid that was almost their own.Are David and Keith using Claire's egg? No offense, but that chick is NOT stable. Nevermind. Neither is David. That kid is destined to be a mess!
Posted by Rick on 06/ 8/05 at 11:43 AM08
I had the same agreement with my sister. *Had* because I didn't factor in a potential brother-in-law who may not be so cool with the idea now. She's suggested, as an alternative, carrying my partner's sister's egg fertilized by my sperm... 'cause somehow that's less weird. Guess the Pheobe situation is more acceptable than the Ross-Susan(?) approach.
Posted by on 06/ 8/05 at 3:44 PM08
The egg harvesting process is actually pretty expensive, and pretty intense. It's major surgery, not like donating sperm. It costs in the tens of thousands of dollars, and unless you have some kind of really insane health care coverage, it's probably not covered. Not to be a downer, but there's more to it than just being ok with it. That said, I know people who've done it, too.
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