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The forum has a new look and the Fairfax Team is so excited to create the best experience for our users.
To Note:
Private Donor Groups and Private Sibling Connection Groups are now located under the category "Groups". Search the donor number in the search box and you should find exactly what you're looking for!
Questions about your forum access? Email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
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2) Once prompted to confirm your request please list this information so we can verify your information:
Name (under which the vial was purchased)
Email
Clinic Name
Donor number
Child Date of Birth
*If you are looking to start a private group for a PRS donor please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com with the above information and that you are looking for a PRS group*
If you have any questions about the verification process please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
The forum has a new look and the Fairfax Team is so excited to create the best experience for our users.
To Note:
Private Donor Groups and Private Sibling Connection Groups are now located under the category "Groups". Search the donor number in the search box and you should find exactly what you're looking for!
Questions about your forum access? Email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
Follow these steps to join a private donor group:
1) Press "Join" at the right of the group
2) Once prompted to confirm your request please list this information so we can verify your information:
Name (under which the vial was purchased)
Clinic Name
Donor number
Child Date of Birth
*If you are looking to start a private group for a PRS donor please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com with the above information and that you are looking for a PRS group*
If you have any questions about the verification process please email forum@fairfaxcryobank.com
Trying to decide between donors
Toomoms
Junior Member Junior Member
I have a couple donors in mind from Fairfax and some from other sperm banks too. Are we allowed to talk about donors from other banks, or is there another forum where we can talk about multiple donor banks and their donors at once? I know Xytex has a forum, but it's restricted and only for families who have already reported a birth. Also, what is everyone's opinion on adult pictures? I seem to be unable to make the leap on a donor if he does not have an adult photo. I have found that baby pictures compared to the end result of adult men seems to be drastically different. Features change so much from childhood to adulthood. I've found that some of the adult pictures where the team here describes the donor as "handsome" and "good looking" are not my standard of handsome lol. It's been tough to find the whole package of intelligent, healthy genetically/family, good-looking, and produced healthy babies so far, but I think I've narrowed down a few good candidates.
-30, First try, Good fertility eval so far, Going to try at-home insemination with my wife - any tips or pointers are appreciated, but i'm ultimately under care of doctor
-30, First try, Good fertility eval so far, Going to try at-home insemination with my wife - any tips or pointers are appreciated, but i'm ultimately under care of doctor
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Get out of town!!!! I'm in Houston too!!!!! Small world. So there's three of us in Houston on this thread? And thank goodness there are more of us set on seeing the adult picture. Makes me feel better. I feel shallow to a degree, but at the same time, I want to give my future children every advantage. So any self criticism of being "shallow" falls away in light of that thought. I always wanted to see the adult picture, but my wife was picking based on the whole package + cuteness of the baby photo. I had to show her some of the adult pictures to get her to change her mind. And it was night and day once she started seeing adult pictures. So, it has definitely narrowed our choices down to only choose donors with adult photos. We are choosing between donors here at Fairfax and Xytex only because these are the only two banks that provide adult photos as far as I see. By the way, 4940 is also on our short list, and no I do not have any children yet. We will be wanting multiple children with the same donor so we are buying many vials at once (9 or 10).
I'm also in Houston, and if this is too personal, please feel free not to answer. But how expensive has your IVF journey been with HFI Woodlands? I have a current fertility doctor for baby #1, assuming all goes well I'll stay with him, (for fertility eval, ovulation monitoring, and potential IUI if at home insemination does not work), but I'm looking ahead at possibly doing reciprocal IVF, so I can carry my wife's baby on baby #2.
So exciting that you are local and I am assuming it is safe to say that you are a nurse like me as well!
Diana and Allie