Did you use a sperm bank?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone used a sperm bank to have thier child, and if so, which cryobank did you use? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

We used Fairfax Cryobank...I know there have been complaints about it on this board, but we had a good experience & two lovely DD's....The biggest downside is that because it is relatively local, there could be a bunch of my girls' half siblings living locally (think dating, marriage)...

[Anonymous]

Yes, Northwest Andrology. Great prices, service and quality of sperm. Took 3 IUI tries for us.

[Anonymous]

Fairfax also. Have 2 kids from the same donor.

[Anonymous]

We used Fairfax Cryobank...I know there have been complaints about it on this board, but we had a good experience & two lovely DD's....The biggest downside is that because it is relatively local, there could be a bunch of my girls' half siblings living locally (think dating, marriage)...

I just had a new customer signup that runs a sperm bank that caters to US customers seeking European sperm.

I was somewhat amazed by this offering but now it makes decent sense.

[Anonymous]

Yes! I used nw cryobank 2 vials & the first try did the trick and I did at home insemination no doctor needed!

[Anonymous]

We used California Cryobank, after searching for donors on spermcenter.com.

I liked working with them.

[Anonymous]

I used the Fertility Center of California and California Reproductive Services.

[Tink80]

Anonymous wrote:Yes! I used nw cryobank 2 vials & the first try did the trick and I did at home insemination no doctor needed!

Can you explain this a little further? That would be so much easier for me..

[Anonymous]

fairfax cryobank. perfectly fine experience. have ds.

not sure there is a big concern about local half-siblings. i've registered on the donor sibling registry and there are half-sibling all over the country. no more in this area than anywhere else. i think it is a cryobank that serves the whole country.

[Anonymous]

We tried with California Cryobank. They were decent to work with. Be careful if you're using anonymous sperm to do home inseminations in MD - you need to have a "letter from a physician regarding successful insemination" in order to do a second parent adoption. I don't know how that works if you do home inseminations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:fairfax cryobank. perfectly fine experience. have ds.

not sure there is a big concern about local half-siblings. i've registered on the donor sibling registry and there are half-sibling all over the country. no more in this area than anywhere else. i think it is a cryobank that serves the whole country.

i used fairfax. i registered on the donor sibling registry and there are ALOT of half-siblings...i was shocked. but not all in this area, actually very few in this area so i am not sure the concern about marrying a half-sibling is worth worrying about!

[Anonymous]

We used TSBC. It is the only non-profit sperm bank in the country, and the phone counselors there are very helpful (and will tell you sperm counts, for free, before you buy). I would highly recommend them. http://www.thespermbankofca.org/

[Anonymous]

I used Pacific Repro svcs. They are in N. and S. CA because I wanted a wide choice of willing to be known donors. I didn't like all the negtive things I had heard abt Fairfax plus I have lived in the dc area too long. I wanted 'willing to be known,' not the remote chance of ending up with a donor I knew!

Also, just because there are no reported half sibs on the donor sib registry doesn't mean there aren't any. My son has no sibs reported on the registry, but a number of people had reported successful pregnancies to the bank. Thus, he has sibs out there but hopefully mostly on the west coast.

[Anonymous]

We used Xytex in Georgia. Open, Known stud donor. Adult photos.