IUI with donor sperm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I just moved to a new area, so I am going to consult with a new doctor in a week. I am 25--our main fertility issue is that my husband has azospermia (0 sperm count) although on my HSG, it shows I may have one blocked fallopian tube. We have done 2 failed cycles of IUI with clomid and donor sperm plus had one cancelled cycle due to the follicles being on the wrong side. We used the same donor for both cycles, and I am considering switching for our next. I am also hoping to retest my fallopian tubes if the next round doesn't work either because I don't want to keep throwing money down the drain if there is a super slim chance of this working! I really hope it won't be necessary for us to move on to IVF because it isn't really financially feasible for us at the moment. Due to finances, all our cycles have been spread out over 2 years--we are ready for this to work!! It is comforting reading success stories although I really hope it doesn't take us 9-10 tries like some of the posters. Praying for all of you on here as I know what an emotional journey this is.

I was just wondering if your clinic your using made you go for a psych consult for this to try and talk you into telling the child when they get older they were from a sperm donor. Ours made it go through this and then told us that we couldn't further in the process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I just moved to a new area, so I am going to consult with a new doctor in a week. I am 25--our main fertility issue is that my husband has azospermia (0 sperm count) although on my HSG, it shows I may have one blocked fallopian tube. We have done 2 failed cycles of IUI with clomid and donor sperm plus had one cancelled cycle due to the follicles being on the wrong side. We used the same donor for both cycles, and I am considering switching for our next. I am also hoping to retest my fallopian tubes if the next round doesn't work either because I don't want to keep throwing money down the drain if there is a super slim chance of this working! I really hope it won't be necessary for us to move on to IVF because it isn't really financially feasible for us at the moment. Due to finances, all our cycles have been spread out over 2 years--we are ready for this to work!! It is comforting reading success stories although I really hope it doesn't take us 9-10 tries like some of the posters. Praying for all of you on here as I know what an emotional journey this is.

I was just wondering if your clinic your using made you go for a psych consult for this to try and talk you into telling the child when they get older they were from a sperm donor. Ours made it go through this and then told us that we couldn't further in the process.

Let me guess--same troll who just posted at 15:56 on the other DS thread? Get a different hobby.

[Anonymous]

This person probably isn't a troll (though I agree the person posting in the other DS thread is.) I had to go for a psych consult because I am using donor gametes. There was a strong suggestion that you must tell the child that he or she is donor-conceived. I'm already on board with that, so it wasn't that big a deal. The requiremen is annoying but it seems to be the way things are done. Considering all the other hoops I'm jumping through, I just can't get that angry about that one thing.

[Anonymous]

My husband and I are doin an iui in June. We were excited until the medical staff age us a 5% change of falling pregnant. Has anyone else even given these odds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're doing IUI with donor sperm and I've been shocked by how many people feel like they can comment on our process. We had a gay friend who went off on us for not choosing an open ID donor. He said our child would be a teenager one day and be angry at us for not
knowing who his "father" was. It was awful. I am curious if any other women who have used donor sperm have encountered this issue? Did other people ask you very personal questions or give you their unwanted opinions?

Hi,
My husband and I are going thru donor sperm, however we are not getting juded for this as we didn't tell anyone. We plan to tell our children when the time is right,. All you have t tell these people is that it was the best option for you as a family. None has the right to tell you that you made the wrong choice. For us, donor is our only option.