Donor Sperm/ IUI

maria_cc79

justanotherday16

maria_cc79

nnegaard

Hi ladies, same situation here. Went through one VR that was successful for about a year till the numbers went waaay down. Tried IVF w/ICSI because we had some insurance coverage, but the two embabies didn't make it. Which brought us to cryogenic. My lovely little boy was born the end of May and he is the joy of our life!! I'm so glad we went the donor route and didn't continue to have expensive procedures. Oh we did 4 cycles of IUI before I was pregnant with RMIA in Woodbury. Two natural, one clomid, and one follistim.

firstandformostmom

becca

I am in the same boat and pretty nervous scared about the whole process. It seems like even when you do tons of research there are still so many unanswered questions. My husband had a vasectomy after 10 years of marriage & 3 children from his previous wife. I have no children and am approaching the higher risk age so we decided we need to get going. We have picked a potential donor but haven't ordered yet. We first are trying to figure out exactly what our story to others is going to be. :?: Any advice is appreciated in any aspect.

danjeninmn

maria_cc79

danjeninmn

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clarapippa

bluesky10

clarapippa

maria_cc79

Well, I had my first IUI with donor 2938 on December 15th and it worked! I got my beautiful two pink lines on Wednesday . I really didn't expect the first one to work. My husband and I are both still in shock but we are so happy! Now I just pray that my little bean continues to grow and thrive. I just wanted to share my happy news with you all. How is everyone else doing? Any updates on anyone else? Where is everyone at now in their cycles?

bluesky10

I hoped being young and healthy(26 never been on BC or anything) that I would get lucky as well. Well the first attempt didnt work, now I have to wait until Feb as the Clomid gave me cysts. So not only did it not take I have to sit out a cycle. I only have one vial of sperm left from the same donor as my daughter, and he is no longer avalable. I really wanted to have a half sibling to her, however I dont feel its going to happen.

clarapippa

bluesky10

clarapippa

bluesky10

It costs me 170 a crack to ship as well. My doc no longer has a storage area so I have to go with this route. I have thought about just picking it up on my way tho to save the money.

cottonlily

Gatorgrl81

cadylou

My husband also had a vasectomy and our doctor did not recommend a reversal. He said that it was not likely to work and then we would be out the money. We considered ICSI, but my husband didn't really want to go through that either. He suggested using a donor and the more we talked about it the more it felt like a good option for us. We looked at 4 different banks, but we ended up here. We have done 2 IUI cycles. The first one with Clomid and trigger ended up not working. We did our 2nd IUI in February using Clomid, Follistim, and trigger and on Thursday I got a positive beta! We are so thrilled. I love my husband so much and I am so happy that there are options available to couples like us to have children too. I am looking forward to everything that will be happening for us in the next few months. Best of luck to everyone else.

kwald64

maria_cc79

mlm38

My husband and I are new to DI. After meeting with our fertility clinic we have completed all the testing - HSG, sonograms, bloodwork, etc and passed the testing. We were given 3 options - RV with a 35% chance of success, IVF - very expensive, meds, etc..., and DI. It took us a year to really decide which method was best for us. We flipped between the RV and the DI. Finally deciding on DI. Family of course knows he had a vacsectomy 10 yrs ago. They all would be really excited with us having a child and have started asking for one. So I dont see keeping how we conceived a secret from our loved ones. My clock is ticking since I will be turning 38 this year. Its wonderful to be able to read stories of others like us. It seems overwhelming to "go shopping" as I call it. How picky do you get with choosing the donors? etc... My husband isnt into the shopping to much..but rather he would like to look at 3 or 4 of my favorites and us make the final decision together. I read some comments on here that stuck out to me. Pick a couple of important traits to us and go from there. A precious little baby is a baby as well as part of our family. Before I can order vials, we have to complete a therapy session regarding those difficult questions we will encounter later in life. I keep telling myself every mother is nervous at some point. Mine just will be before conception instead of during the preganancy. We only see having one child, but know that this has been said by many and later wished for a second. So how many vials do you purchase the first time? Do you go back and purchase more vials later for the second child and keep them at CLI so that if you later wish to sell them back you can? At our clinic, they require you to pay for storage with them (1 year) so they can have the samples at the clinic and ready when we need them, cutting out the stress of the vials making to the clinic in time. For ones that have been through a session or too..Once you pick your donor and you purchase the vials, they are in storage and your ready to start the DI process, (Im nervous about it) can anyone tell me what the next steps are? I havent heard medications mentioned in our doctor appts and believe we will try without them. Looking for advice on picking the donor, and the next steps of the DI after purchase of the vials.

maria_cc79

donornumber2451

my husband and I conceived our first and only child through IUI, and we waited for about 8 months on a waiting list in order to get more vials of the same donor, the call finally came in feb 2010

pequele

Donornumber 2451 I sent you a pm....that's my son's donor number, too!

xxluvmyfiremanxx

Hi ladies! I know there hasn't been any posts in a while but hoping I can join in and we can all continue chatting. My Dh and I found out 2 years ago that he has azoosppermia so it took a while for my Dh to come to terms with it and after much searching found our PERFECT donor here at CLI his baby photo matches my husbands almost perfectly and they are even in the same career and have blue eyes and full lips. We knew we had found our donor the second he saw his picture. we are currently on our third cycle after two failed attempts I'm currently on 100mg of clomid and should be triggering and having my IUI next week. I'm really hoping the added trigger will make this third time a charm. My beta day also happens to fall on my Dh's birthday, wouldn't that be a wonderful birthday present! Where is everyone in their cycles? Hope everyone is doing well.lots of baby dust!

dreamsabc123

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xxluvmyfiremanxx

Hi everyone! My RE actually had to go out of town last week because his mother passed away and so my cycle was cancelled for the month. We will be back on next cycle but it won't be for another couple weeks. Wishing everyone good luck!