WHAT'S BEHIND THE EGG SELLING

 What's behind the egg selling

This just caught my sight. Today on the Nairobian magazine I read an article about campus girls selling their eggs. It's really weird that people have a problem with this. It's like adoption, but even more interesting because there's no childless mother struggling to cool down the fire of not having a child.

 Many girls may use this for wrong reasons but I appreciate those that give their eggs to help somebody. I have interacted with several girls who have sold and donated their eggs. It’s a good paying art that has now lured large number of Campus girls into it. Selling of eggs is the only business that one earns quick money without requiring capital to start it.

Lilian, one of the girls I interacted with had different feeling about the egg selling business. Her first egg selling business wasn’t that friendly to her. ”My first egg selling, I was so excited about what was going on and I decided to share my happiness with my family and most of my friends on social media. Things did not turn out as I thought they would. Friends on my social media page went crazy on me but with time they had to understand this was my decision. I really don’t regret having to sell my eggs. ”

 I was interested in knowing how the process feel like though according to Lilian egg selling is as good as shopping in a Supermarket. “The process is not that hurtful as you may think. One is always totally asleep so you don't feel anything during the procedure. The recovery period isn't necessarily painful but one may feel just uncomfortable. It did hurt to sit up from a laying down place for the first few days, but it was easy to go through during my normal days.” She may be right though there is one thing that I really don’t understand; is the egg selling considered some as the egg donation?

According to me, everything is ok providing one is comfortable doing it. I'm not against nor am i supporting egg selling or egg donation neither am I judging those that have done it but at some point, it just doesn't make sense. I never thought of donating or selling my eggs. While growing up I related to egg selling stories but these was believed to be practised by the white people. Come to think of it, the resulting baby may not legally or socially be your child but they are biologically your child. You have babies out there. You are literally a mother to someone.

 To my understanding, donating or selling eggs have several ways that one is required to undergo. For instance Lilian was required to inject herself everyday with this (HCG) Human Chorionic Gonadotropin medicine. The medicine did make her very bloated by the end of the cycle and certainly uncomfortable. But due to the need for money she still carried out a number of egg selling process.

 Men have come out to lament this act and others even saying they cannot date or marry a girl that has sold her eggs. The main reason being, fear of not having children in future. Doctors have also raised an alarm on the egg selling business. Sometimes we rush on condemning people without analysing what really prompted them into doing it. I understand not all campus girls sell their eggs for money. Let me get this correct, egg selling is the digital job that has revealed itself to young Kenyans. Many people have died trying it out but that is not the end of the business for others. Actually, those that have died trying it are just the specimen that was used to prove the effectiveness of the process.