Would you offer to donate your eggs to your cousin?

I can't donate eggs anyway but even if I could, I wouldn't.

@Alex fair but why wouldn’t you? Just curious..

Multiple reasons really, the time it takes, possible complications or side effects, the fact that biologically the baby would be mine, the fact that my daughter would technically have a half sibling that legally isn't her half sibling, not being on birth control so risk of pregnancy and/or not being able to have sex with my partner.

I think it takes a lot to be an egg donor and if it's something you're seriously considering you should do a lot of research both about the donation process and really consider what it would be like to see any possible children grow up. There's the other side too, would your cousin actually want or even appreciate the offer if you did decide to? If you did go ahead and she said yes, how would you both navigate telling the child? I would recommend talking it through with a therapist(both sides) if you did. I personally would donate eggs but not to someone I know, there's a lot of risk there of a big mess.

@Rachel all good things to consider! I’ve thought a lot about it, talked to my husband about it and will with my cousin next week to see if she’s even open to the idea. She might not be. After having my baby I want her to experience what it’s like to have one! The baby may have my genes but it wouldn’t be my baby. I didn’t grow them, birth them or raise them. Telling the child is something we’d have to discuss but it’d be the similar conversation. We just share genes which we do anyway as cousins. We’ll have a special bond sure but I’m not her mom. We’re close but live in different states so only see each other 2-3 times a year. I think the risk of a “big mess” is small compared to the benefit of a woman achieving her dream of being a mom.