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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
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 Home Insemination
leonasluv
Junior Member
My partner and I are just getting into this journey of starting a family. We really would rather do an at home insemination, but also want an annoymous donor. Can anyone tell me if The Fairfax Cyrobank will allow us to pick up sperm and complete our insemination at home? If anyone has any experience or other resources to help, we would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks
Eager Future Mommies
Thanks
Eager Future Mommies
Comments
I guess what I'm trying to say, is I completely understand wanting to try from home. It is an intimate process that you want to share with your partner and your partner alone. My advice to you is if you don't get pregnant after 4 tries at home, go find a fertility clinic. The roller coaster of emotions you will go through are horrendous and I don't wish them on my worst enemy. With that being said, I wish you the best of luck and hope you (as a couple) are one of the lucky ones and get pregnant at home on the first try. Best of luck!!!!
My partner and I will begin the process in Feb- but before then we have been looking into everything and discussing our options..... She is carrying the baby and is dead set on doing at least 6 months of insems at home because she thinks its the right thing to do for her body. That is 1 insem a month for 6 months. She is 29 and I am 27. We have had numerous arguments over this topic because I want to go straight to IUI and invest money in a better chance of getting pregnant. I am also anticipating the months of not getting pregnant and being let down.... I have no idea how to go about trying to get her to change her mind. I wanna do what is best for her and us as a couple. Some people also believe that just because we are lesbians we are infertile???? We just need to find other ways to get sperm ;-) So her argument is, that doing insems at home is just like when straight people make love at home to make a baby.... what do you think?
Maybe if we just do 4 at home like you said and if that doesn't work go to the next route?
Thanks! Congrats on getting preggers ;-)
J&S
I just read your story and I am so sorry, my heart breaks for you both. Just keep trying and when GOD knows it is right, your baby will be here..... my thoughts are with you 2
Thanks for the kind words, we appreciate it. However, we are pregnant again and feel that this is our baby. It's really early yet (7 weeks), but we have to keep the hope that we don't lose our baby again. It is terrifying and exciting all at the same time.
As far as your situation goes, I was in the same boat you are. I wanted to go straight to the clinic and my partner Sue (she is carrying) did not. She was 29 and healthy as well and thought along the same lines. We discussed it and came to the conclusion that we would like to try the intimate route at home first. However, after a couple tries I was ready to go to the clinic again. It did cause some strife as she was still insisting on trying at home. My advice to you is definately try at home if your partner is dead set on doing so. Who knows, you could be one of the lucky ones. I really hope you are. I would try to follow the 4 month rule, but if she wants 6, maybe you can compromise on 5 months. You both have to be on the same page or it makes things really difficult.
My thing about trying at home was I never knew if I was thawing the sperm right. They give instructions and the instructions they give are to use some medical equipment. Well obviously we didn't have it. There are alternate instructions of table top thawing, but according to the fertility clinic the way you thaw it depends on the method they freeze it. So, I don't think its the same as a heterosexual couple trying at home, because the sperm is frozen. But I'll say again I've heard of people getting pregnant at home on the first try. We send you our best wishes and hope like hell you get pregnant right away!!!
Take care,
Jodi & Sue