Gene Pool

The firs flush of biology caught me at 30. I really desperately wanted to have my girlfriends child. After much googling i came to the conclusion that unless i was some sort of right philanthropist or the beneficiary of one, with access to all sort of high experimental scientific types, it was not going to happen in my lifetime. So that washed thru my life leaving faint traces of regret and sadness for the human potential i would never get to meet. A few more years went by and the desire to have a child has again reignited within me. Since i am to be the mum, i have decided my poor girlfriend's job is to procure the sperm!
It is funny what becomes important when you have a choice. You don't fall in love on the bases of your partners family medical history, however the focus changes when you can actually choose who is to provide the sperm.  My poor male friends are all running for cover! I guess it must really make them questions how they feel about the whole parenthood thing, specially since this child will not be theirs at all.  One thing i am really sure off is that i am not looking to have a third parent.  But i would like them to be available if the child chooses to know who they are. I guess it is what's called a known donor. A mate of mine is going thru the process of checking himself to be my potential donor. The only hitch i can see is that he lives a whole 1500 kms away. My girlfriend thinks this is a plus as she is really against interference from the donor. i don't know if it will work out due to the shear logistics of it. i am not planning to inseminate till the end of the year. Again choice has reared its hydra head and we are going to try for an October child.  So in the mean time i am madly trying to figure out when i am fertile, when i ovulate, as there is not point in getting the little fellows to the door if there is no one to answer them!. I got this thing from ebay, its called Maybe Baby.  Its like a little torch with a lens at then end of it. You put spit on it let it dry and hey presto, you can tell if you have high levels of estrogen in you spit or not. I think the theory goes that if you do then you are ovulating. I am finding that i have high levels of estrogen at all sorts of time. Pretty much from when i start bleeding till after i have ovulated... So i am having to use other methods as well, such taking a look at my cervical mucus for elasticity, and charting my periods.  I really should be doing the basal body temperature as well but i am rather lazy when it comes to it!  The thing about all this data is that you can then have even more choice!!!  According to this book i got, <insert details here> male sperm is fast and short lived, female sperm is slower but hardier. Armed with this they have arrived at the conclusion, backed by imperical evidence that if one was to inseminate a 2-3 days before ovulation, all the spermy that survive to the arrival of the egg would be girl ones. hey presto you get a girl!