A MOTHER with young twins now wants to help other couples have children by donating her own eggs to a fertility clinic. Amy Richardson, 32, of Northop Hall, gave birth to twin boys Thomas and Nathan two years ago after trying for children for just a week with husband Christopher, 34. But she has also witnessed the heartache of couples struggling to conceive after seeing friends go through fertility treatments in a bid to have children. Now she wants to help women and couples unable to have kids after learning about the chronic shortage of donors. Amy, an accounts manager with the NHS, said: “I was incredibly lucky being able to conceive so quickly and I am so lucky to have my twin boys, now I want to help other people have the same as me. “I have seen friends go through heartache trying to conceive and I want to be able to help people like them. “I will receive no money for my eggs, people call it altruistic donation but I will get so much back knowing I have helped a couple have a child.” Donated eggs are given to women unable to produce eggs or with a high chance of passing on a genetic disorder. They are fertilised by their partner’s sperm before being implanted into the mother. Egg donation has been a controversial subject, with many groups opposed to the concept on religious and ethical grounds. Amy said: “I have no issue with it, people have talked about an emotional attachment to the eggs but I do not have this attachment to what is basically just a part of my body. “For me I have had my children and the eggs are now of no use to me but can make the world of difference to another couple.” Some women are able to find friends and relatives prepared to donate eggs to enable them to have children but others have to join a large national waiting list. Amy added: “People can wait years for a donated egg, it is very sad and I think more women would be prepared to go through with it if they knew more about egg donation.” She has began the process with daily injections to help the procedure and she will attend St Mary’s Hospital in Manchester next month for her eggs to be removed. | 
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