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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!
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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
At the beginning of our journey
usrondeno
Junior Member Junior Member
GREETINGS!
My wife and I are at the beginning stages of increasing our family. Any advice on which paths to take (IUI or IVF)? Any advice in general? We appreciate you in advance!
My wife and I are at the beginning stages of increasing our family. Any advice on which paths to take (IUI or IVF)? Any advice in general? We appreciate you in advance!
Comments
We attempted (and failed hard) with ICI which is done at home. We went with another cryobank at first and they did a very poor job, my partner nearly burnt her hand trying to retrieve the vials from the cryotank....it was a mess.
Then we tried Fairfax with IUI. It was concise, simple, done at the doctors office and took the second time!
I'm not saying any of this is easy. It was all tricky - peeing on the ovulation stick (and my hand 1/3 of the time) waiting, hoping, praying for the smiley face to stop blinking. Lugging the cryotank from the doctors office (yes! our doctor made us take it with us!!!)
But the IUI worked.
And the moment I peed on the stick at 4am because I couldn't hold my bladder any longer and the stick read "Pregnant" I remember I ran out into the snow and cried and danced and just said over and over, "I'm pregnant! I'm pregnant!"
This past December I gave birth (ugh - the birthing bit, yikes and ouch!) to literally the most perfect love of my life.
My advice - try IUI, supposedly the average person takes nine months to conceive! It took me three tries (over a six month span)
Find lots of distractions, mine personally was working. But it is so so SO hard and distracting and all consuming when you pee on that stick every morning and afternoon to see if you're ovulating, if you can call and have the specimen sent, if the procedure date will fall on a weekend, if this, if that, it goes on and on. Find distractions, the waiting is so unbelievably tricky and a worried mind is not conducive to conceiving.
Best of luck to you!!!!