Håller helt med dig. Jag hade också jättemånga funderingar över detta i början, är väl därför som vi gjorde så många ivf:er också, vi ville verkligen veta att vi inte kan få några barn själva innan vi ger oss in på detta. Nu tycker jag inte att det är konstigt alls med äggdonation, man vänjer ju sig vid tanken och jag är helt säker på att jag kommer att känna det som att det är mitt barn. Det är ju en sådan gåva att kunna få den här hjälpen. Läste även en jätteintressant länk häromdagen om att även den som bär barnet påverkar det, det är inte bara generna som är betydande visar den senaste forskningen sk. epigenetics.
Epigenetics - The Importance of the Birth Mother
An article about epigenetics that referred to the influence of the birth mother on the genetic make up of a child born from donor eggs. ?..
Genes must be ?expressed? within an individual in order to have an effect.
The same gene or genes can express in a number of different ways depending upon the environment. A gene can remain ?silent? or unexpressed; it can be expressed strongly; it can be expressed weakly, and so on. There is also an entire field of study called ?imprinting? having to do with which gene you ?activate,? the copy you received from your mother, or the copy you received from your father.
The field of epigenetics studies these phenomenon, and popular journalism is just starting to write about it. While the Human Genome Project was still underway, we usually heard genes referred to as ?the Bible? of the human being, as a kind of absolute truth concerning the fundamental nature of the individual.
That is now changing.
In a donor egg pregnancy, the pregnant woman?s womb is the environment. It is her genes, not the donor?s, that determine the expression of the donor-egg baby?s genes.
A donor egg baby gets her genes from the donor; she gets the ?instructions? on the expression of those genes from the woman who carries her to term.
This means that a donor egg baby has 3 biological parents: a father, the egg donor, and the woman who carries the pregnancy.
The child who is born would have been a physically & no doubt emotionally different person if carried by his genetic mother.
In horse breeding for example, it?s not uncommon to implant a pony embryo into the womb of a horse.
The foals that result, are different from normal ponies. They?re bigger. These animals? genotype ? their genes ? are the same as a pony?s, but their phenotype ? what their genes actually look like in the living animal ? is different.
The implication of epigenetics is that the child inherits characteristics from the woman who carries the child even if the original DNA comes from a donor egg. In other words the birth mother influences what the child is like at a genetic level - it IS her child.
www.nurture.co.za/