TV you should watch which are all available on BBC iPlayer:
Donor Mum: The children I've never met
Nature's Miracle Babies
Donor Mum is a fantastic programme which really highlights the challenges faced by donor conceived people and donors themselves with the confidentiality laws which were in place pre-90s. I have a friend who is donor conceived and who works with DonorLinkUK who are the only charity working to connect donors with their donor conceived children or those who have donor conceived half-siblings. If I were donor conceived I'd want to know if I had any brothers or sisters knocking about! There are also much more serious things related to donor conception, what if your donor father or mother had a genetic disease or was a carrier, wouldn't you want to know if you were likely to have it yourself, or pass it on to your own children? Something I really liked about this programme is that it showed how grateful the mother was to her donor and also showed how well thought out the donors ideas were, she knew she wanted to donate to 'give something back' and purely to help someone else. That is admirable, whatever the failings in the system.
Miracle Babies is just cute and the best bit is the baby panda being cradled by the presenter towards the end, check out how chilled out he looks (the panda, not the presenter).
Today I have done homework, filled in forms I was meant to have done already and finally sent my W.I. report to the group secretary... only three months late... Better late than never though.
Plans for tonight: TV, Chicken and Bacon Pasta Bake and a snuggle with my pussycats who are inside because it's raining.
Night night!
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