donor egg baby - how I learned to feel like his real mother

 This is a place to come if you are thinking of -- or have had -- a baby through a donor.  I did, 22 years ago, and it's taken me about that long to believe I am truly his mother.  An experience with a college roommate freshman year who was a drug dealer convinced me that I am.  I've recently published a memoir about my experience, "Counterfeit Mother," about finally believing I am his mother, counterfeit-mother.com. Please let me know how you are feeling.  This is such a common experience for those of us who had gone through childbirth this way.  And the happy ending?  You love him like yours, from the beginning.            I'd like to tell you about how I became a mother. Not in the usual way. I used a donor. Now, this is not something that's all that unusual today. But my story is about how long it took for me to feel like his “real” mother.        As women are having children older...