Becoming Fairy Godmother: Egg Donation and Creating A New Kind of Family

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Two years ago Julia Winston was asked to help a gay couple start a family by donating her eggs. At the time, she was 38, single, and had no idea if she’d start her own family. Sometimes that made her feel insecure, so the opportunity to donate her eggs allowed her to help create a family, just not the one she imagined in her head. Since the donation, she’s gone through an emotional transformation that opened her eyes to all the different ways a family can look.

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0:00.0	Um, how are you?
0:05.0	Most people answer that question with fine or good.
0:09.0	But obviously it's not always fine and it's usually not even that good.
0:15.0	This is a podcast that asks people to be honest about their pain.
0:21.0	To just be honest about how they really feel, about the hard parts of life.
0:30.0	And guess what?
0:32.2	It's complicated.
0:34.0	I'm Nora McNerney.
0:37.0	And this is terrible.
0:39.0	Thanks for asking.
0:41.0	What does family mean to you? Each of us will answer that question a little
0:47.3	differently. Maybe you consider the people you live in the same house with as your family. Maybe you widen that circle and
0:56.2	include your aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins. Maybe your family are the friends that you've chosen.
1:04.0	The people who have stood by you through everything even when the people that you share blood with didn't.
1:10.0	When I was growing up, my family was massive. We're Irish Catholic. This was a
1:17.1	conglomerate, honestly. Spanding across the upper Midwest into the East Coast parts of California.
1:25.0	I have, and this is not an exaggeration, 50 first cousins, 50, and I have so many other forms of cousins that if you share even one
1:36.3	strand of DNA with me or if you grew up alongside me and share no DNA with me, I
1:41.3	was told you are my cousin or my aunt or my uncle. Family to me was
1:48.6	always expansive but I still assumed as a kid that my own family would be nuclear. I would marry a man.
1:58.0	We would have kids. Those kids would be cousins with my siblings kids. We would someday become grandparents and then we would die and
2:05.2	maybe in a few generations someone would name a kid after us. That's what my parents did.
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