The combination of genes your baby expresses whether recessive or dominant can make it possible for your baby to not physically look like your partner or your donor but a unique combination of the two.
Donor egg baby doesn t look like me.
Will the baby look like me.
However if her partner s sperm was used the baby may look like its father because they share the same genetics.
For couples considering ivf with donor eggs epigenetics suggests that the baby may or may not look like a combination of the egg donor and the egg recipient s partner.
The fertile chick september 23 2017.
Your love beliefs and nurturing will have the highest impact on the kind of human your child will be.
The genetics of a donor egg because a donor egg won t share any of its genes with its intended mother there s a chance the baby will not resemble its mother.
So when using this method for picking out your egg donor the answer to the question of if i use donor eggs will the baby look like me is that they probably will but there are no guarantees.
This is a concern of most women who use egg donors.
Even genetically related mothers can t guarantee their child will look like them as genes often skip a generation or are influenced by other factors including the father s genes.
There s a light at the end of the horizon.
It is very possible.
Donor eggs will the baby look like me.
However they do not determine the type of person your child will become.
Your egg donor baby can look like you.