I popped into a coffee shop a few days ago. Opened up a paper to practice reading in Italian, and suddenly there it is.

Donor eggs now allowed in Italy!

I wasn’t sure. My Italian isn’t good, but then today my landlady mentioned it to me with a “damn! you could have done it here!”

Well yes and no. It might have been nearly free to do it here, but I suspect it will take them awhile to get all systems operational. I know I don’t want to add more waiting and what ifs to my life right now.

Also, I doubt there will be a huge donor pool initially.  This is a country where last week you could only create 3 embryos at a time during IVF and all 3 had to be implanted. I can’t imagine next week dozens of woman are going to be thinking, ah spring, I should see about donating eggs now that it may be legal.

But it is a huge step forward. This is going to help many people.  If the law stays in place long enough to allow that to happen (Italian law is a very fluid thing with a constant churn of law changes).

And like so many other things on my journey thus far, his comes  just a little too late for me, but at least I can smile as I see the door swing open for the people just behind me in line.