Thank you for all your replies.

I have done a fair bit of research but not seriously looked into it, as I still live in hope of finding that special someone. However, it is something I would seriously consider if I get to 40 and I'm still childless.

I just don't know if I could bring a person into the world for my own selfish reasons. I have read many articles where children that are a result of a sperm donor have grown up to resent the way they were conceived and they came from a Petri dish and so very clinical. Not knowing your father (even though you have the right to contact them at 16 in the uk) and being so different from all the other children would surely effect him/her??

I have a very close and supportive family but I don't think my mum would approve at all. She is very old fashioned and worries about the fact that you do not really kniw (apart from the basics such as ethnic group, nationality, age, height, eye colour etc) what this person is like and could have an aggressive nature etc. I do agree with her in some ways and it would worry me.

I think in my heart, I always dreamed of a family or at least to have conceived a child with someone I love/loved, even if it didn't work out, knowing that person and hopefully them always wanting to be part of my/our child's life is the only way I would want it. I think I know deep down in my heart that being a donor mum is not for me, I just don't want to have the choice taken away from me. It's not a decision to be made lightly. I guess it just hurts to accept that I probably will not ever be a mum the way I had hoped.

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