I had dinner with the girls tonight. A real treat to be out, but I felt a bit disingenuous talking about my pregnancy and the birth etc. and not telling the truth about the early menopause diagnosis and egg donation. I am so very grateful for our daughter and have talked here about how I wouldn’t change my diagnosis or how we got her now (because it wouldn’t be her if we’d had a child any other way), so why am I still not being open about how we got her? I keep asking myself this recently as I really would like to be an advocate for egg donation (and am!). But the way you tell your child is still a big decision. We decided that until we’ve told or worked out how to tell our daughter about how she was made we weren’t going to tell anyone but a few close friends. I’m not sure now if I wish we’d done it differently and been more open but for her sake, I think it was the right thing to do so she doesn’t find out from someone else. I think……