NORWALK, Conn. (WTNH) — A Connecticut fertility clinic is raising awareness about a shortage of egg donors of color, which it says is causing stress for all races who want to have their children resemble them.

Tomeeko Hunt, 49, became a new mom less than three months ago.

Hunt says she always wanted to have children but was too focused on her career as a school administrator while completing two master’s degrees.

“I knew that I didn’t want to be a mom in the midst of school,” she said.

Hunt said that, eventually, the time came to have a child. Even though her doctor told her she was healthy, she decided to turn to in vitro fertilization due to her age and because “it wouldn’t be wise for me to go the natural route.”

Her doctor told Hunt that it wouldn’t be easy when it came to matching with a donor of the same race. But she said she was “blessed” she didn’t face those obstacles and was able to find a donor that also matched her genetically fairly quickly through CCRM Fertility.