Find out as much as possible about the donor, as this will be really helpful in talking to your child later on. Most banks or clinics will give you a physical description, year and country of birth, their ethnicity, whether they have children at the time of donation, their marital status, their medical history, a personal description. Some banks and clinics may also have photos of the donor as a child and a sometimes also as an adult.
Carole LieberWilkins, Marriage and Family Therapist: “Details matter, because every shred of information was helpful years later when I started talking with my son.”