Birth Rate

dreamsabc123
dreamsabc123 Senior Member Senior Member
in Selecting a Donor
I have a question for everyone out there. When deciding on a donor and finding out how many births are reported, how important is this to you? I guess my real question is the donors I like typically have had 5-10 births reported and has 20 or more. What do you think is a good number of reported births for this?
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  • sibemom
    sibemom Member Member
    I just want to see a 'yes' next to pregnancies reported if they've been part of the program for more than 6 months. Beyond that... I think the number is misleading. We are, after all, talking only about REPORTED pregnancies... how many go unreported? We might not ever know. Do pregnancies that result in miscarriage count as pregnancies? What are the percentages of miscarriages?

    The larger number of successes does make me a bit pensive on ID option donors, which is what I had originally wanted and ended up picking this year in my second round of donor selections (needed to pick a CMV- donor). I mean, if the guy has 2-3 kids reaching out to meet him I'm sure he'd be receptive... but after 18-19? I'd have to think the whole idea of meeting another child would loose its luster, and I do fear that the child wouldn't get the enthusiasm I'm sure they'd be hoping to get from their genetic father.
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  • hopefulchar
    hopefulchar Senior Member Senior Member
    fairfax counts all positives that are reported as pregnancies. The mom can choose to report it after her beta or after the baby is born. So you do have to take that into consideration.

    lots of baby dust
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  • bruyere
    bruyere Junior Member Junior Member
    My donor of choice has no pregnancies and has been in the program for over a year, should I be worried? I thought the sperm from all donors was healthy and able to produce children, isn't it the case?
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  • moewhit25
    moewhit25 Senior Member Senior Member
    bruyere wrote: »
    My donor of choice has no pregnancies and has been in the program for over a year, should I be worried? I thought the sperm from all donors was healthy and able to produce children, isn't it the case?
    Absolutely not the case! I've seen donors with no pregnancies reported and they've been in the program a couple of years. Just because donor sperm is healthy does not mean it will lead to pregnancy. There are too many other variables that factor in and if that were the case there wouldn't be women on this forum trying multiple times without success. But there's also the fact that some women just never report their pregnancy, which I just can't understand!?! I don't want so sound like a BFN but you should have a realistic viewpoint that its often just up to chance!
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  • bruyere
    bruyere Junior Member Junior Member
    I meant in theory! But are you saying we should never pick a donor that has no pregnancies reported then? I'm confused.
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  • moewhit25
    moewhit25 Senior Member Senior Member
    bruyere wrote: »
    I meant in theory! But are you saying we should never pick a donor that has no pregnancies reported then? I'm confused.
    Nope I'm not saying a donor without "reported" pregnancies shouldn't be used. It's a personal choice but from my experience I wanted someone that had a decent track record if he was donating for over a year. Again, not everyone reports their pregnancy so they indeed could have successes.

    Good luck with your decision.
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