Kind mum-of-two has donated eggs five times – and already made SIX babies for complete strangers
A super-fertile mum tells how she's helped other couples to have two boys and four girls in the last five years
A SUPER-FERTILE mum donated her eggs five times helping couples successfully create SIX babies.
Kind Dawn Wilkinson-Russell, 32, spent the past five years helping other couples become parents – contributing to the conception of two boys and four girls.
The eBay seller, who has five children of her own aged between six and 18 years, tells how after she’d finished having her own children, she set her sights on helping others.
She had originally planned to take breaks from donating in some years but the generous mum was unable to resist once she met couples who needed her help.
She has now even built friendships with the couples she’s helped out and met some of the children that have resulted from her generosity.
Despite the fact that donating her eggs made Dawn feel unwell and took her away from her work, she explained that it was “completely worth it”.
The Isle of Wight resident has now helped four couples have children and thinks that every woman who can donate should.
She said: “There is nothing more rewarding than being a mother and it breaks my heart that for some people it’s not possible.
“Women who don’t want children should donate their eggs to others who so desperately do.
“So far I have a 100 per cent success rate with my egg donation, I guess I am very fertile!”
Dawn wanted to donate eggs since she was 18 but felt that she should have her own children first.
In 2012, Dawn found private egg donation agency Altrui and after a tough vetting process, including blood, STD and genetic tests, she was matched with a couple.
They explained that they’d never gotten pregnant before and the woman hoped that her mum would get to see her have grandchildren.
Over the next three months, Dawn began using the contraceptive pill so she could sync her period with the woman who would eventually carry her eggs.
Dawn told her children she was helping other families have children and her husband supported her choice.
Three months after the process began, nine eggs were extracted from her womb to be implanted into the mum-to-be.
And just two weeks after that, Dawn was amazed to find out that the couple were already pregnant.
Buoyed by her success, two months later in December 2012 Dawn set about finding a new couple and posted an ad on website Sofeminine that she’d had a successful donation.
Given she didn’t known much about the first couple, the mum “wanted next time to be more personal” and was inundated with dozens of couples hoping to snag her as their donor.
She eventually chose a couple from Belgium.
Dawn never asks for money in exchange for her donation, it is just her expenses which are reimbursed.
Dawn carried out the same donation process at the Wessex fertility centre in Southampton in March 2013 which resulted in a boy and five freezable embryos for the couple to use.
In September 2013, Dawn donated again at the same centre and that couple had a girl.
After sharing her remarkable story in a magazine article she was contacted by a couple in May 2014 via Facebook.
At the time she was unable to help them as she was in the process of donating for another couple but they kept in touch via social media and in February 2016 Dawn donated to that couple resulting in twin babies.
Dawn stays in contact with all the couples except the anonymous couple through Altrui, introducing her kids to ones she’s helped create.
She says: “My kids call them egg babies and know that they’re special because I helped create them.
“My advice to other women would be: if you can donate, do it. You won’t regret it.”