ablation

I had an  ablation done about 6 years ago. It was successful. I  am pre-menopause and I am 40 years old.   My daughter who is only 19 was just told that she does not produce eggs. When she decides to start her family, the doctor told her she would have to use an egg  donor. My  question is, I want to know if I would  still have eggs after the ablation and  since I am in  pre-menopause.  I want  to freeze them for my daughter. Thanks for your help, Cindy

[AHP84]

Does your daughter know you want to do this for her and approve of it?

I'm just curious, and I hope I don't offend or insult you by asking this, but isn't this a bit risky? Although, I do understand the care, concern, and generosity and see the beauty in that, which I think makes you an awesome mother.
I say risky though, because then she would carry a child that is biologically her half sibling, and biologically your child, fathered by her husband. Might emotional "baggage" develop between you two under any circumstances from this?
Would this be a health risk also? Considering your age now, does that put your eggs at a higher risk of a baby that could have Down's Syndrome?

[AnnieBrooke]

A nice thought, but if your daughter does not have a partner or husband right now, unfortunately the idea is a non-starter.  Eggs have been frozen experimentally with limited success, but what is frozen for the purposes of reproduction is embryos.  In other words, donor egg, meet Mr. Sperm, voila, embryo!  The embryos are what get frozen.  Eggs alone are too fragile and do not make it through the freezing and thawing.  The other problem you would have in trying to do this is that your eggs are not the best bet for donation because of your age.  I'm sure you know that all women are born with the all the eggs they are ever going to have, and so your eggs are as old as you are.  Chances of Downs, and other issues that make the eggs less viable, have really increased for you by now.  This is why RE's like to see the donors be under age 25.  

Don't worry, if she does have a baby with a donor, she will be able to match herself for appearance, health and other things, and if she carries the baby herself, well, honey, it's her baby.  And you will feel the same way about the child as you would about any other grandchild.  My whole family knew we did a donor egg, and I swear they must have forgotten because there is no hesitation whatsoever among any of them.  I will add, there is evidence that some of the mother's DNA (the mother who carries the baby, not the egg donor's) is passed along to the child.  There is not as much separation as you might think.  I don't know how many times I have been told how much my son looks like me, and at first it made me a little self-conscious, but now I think, "must be that mitochondrial DNA."  :)