Paperwork, paperwork, paperwork

Until my newest boy is weaned from breastfeeding, there isn't a lot to do in terms of the donation. He is nearly 8 months old and full of beans. I breastfed my first until 15 months (he weaned himself) so I expect this one will be similar. 

They need me to have stopped breastfeeding due to the fertility hormones they will give me before the actual procedure (they dont want them to be transferred to bubba in my milk) so we have a wee bit of a wait until that happens and I can donate. 

In the mean time, I was given a bit of paperwork to fill out- most specifically, one titled: 'Oocyte Donor Non-identifying information'.

This is 4 pages of questions to provide the recipient and (if any) future children with information about myself but anonymously. This information is the only information which will be disclosed about me without contacting me first, before my donation. 

I found this to be really hard to write even though it did offer some leading questions. I mean, what do you say about your own personality? 

"How would you describe your personality/temperament?" 

"How do you get on with people?"

"Please describe what sort of child you were (eg, interests, activities, sports, personality)"

"Do you have any thoughts or feelings you would like to pass on about what it means to you to be identifiable and the possibility of contact in the future with any children born"

Oh man. It kind of feels like a delicate balance between being brutally honest and at the same time talking yourself up. 

"Well, sometimes I'm a bit of a smart ass and sometimes I have a bad temper (like my 3 year old) but I'm awesome... really" 

The other questions were much easier... height, weight, medical history, mother & father's height and ages. Boring stuff like that. Much easier. Facts. I can do facts. 

I feel like it took me a good solid week to fill out that form. One form. 4 pages. 1 week. That's a lot of mulling over what to say. Probably far too much mulling! 

The other two forms I'm sending in with the big huge scary one are a Reproductive questionnaire and a Health & Lifestyle declaration form. Both were pretty straight forward; the first asking questions about my menstrual cycle, fertility, pregnancies etc. The other asking about drugs, tattoos, STDs, prostitution etc. I have tattoos but none in the past few years (since before my first pregnancy) so that doesn't count :)

Now I need to get around sending it all in... and then we'll go from there. One more step on my way!

xJ