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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I can't answer all of your questions but I have kids from DE, and used CFA.   We used a CFA donor so our costs were pretty close to what they laid out for us in their paperwork.  THere is some fuzziness there because of individual drug protocols, but just for the donor portion (and live and frozen transfers) they billed us what they detailed on their cost sheets.

We used a CFA donor because we were kind of at the end of our rope with the time we had spent and wanted to do whatever we could to expedite things.  They do have a small donor pool, but I'm a pretty standard white, northern european mutt so it wasn't hard to find a couple of options that I could live with.  YOu do have to give up the idea of finding a donor that will look like you.  That was hard for me.  But that hurdle would be present no matter what the donor pool.

Here is what I see as the pros/cons of using one of CFA's donors:

Pro - 
- known donors.  This was HUGE to me.  We chose a woman who had donated before and whose cycles had resulted in healthy births.  
- known donors in terms of compliance.  We had a couple of options to choose from and one of them was well-known to our doctor.  The doctor was able to speak about the donor's compliance, and also the health and intelligence of her child that the daughter had come to know.  Very reassuring to have some personal knowledge of the individual, given how anonymous the whole process is.
- ability to move quickly.  CFA's donors have been tested and vetted - so you don't have to wait and see if the person will be approved as a donor.
- seamlessness of the process.  It was pretty easy to move quickly without the hassles of another party re contracts, transfers, timelines, etc...
- possibly more economical than finding eggs through another agency (or trying to find an individual) and having all of those fees be a separate transaction.

Cons:
- more limited selection
- potential discomfort with knowing there are other children in the DC Metro area who are genetically related to yours by virtue of the donor

As I said, I can't really help you with the questions about using an outside agency.  I can certainly understand wanting to do that.  Perhaps you could be exploring the other donor pools out there to get a sense of your comfort level with the process, your criteria for selection, what the options are like, etc...   That might position you to move as quickly as possible if/when you decide to go that route.

Good luck to you.  I hope it's a moot issue and your current cycle is the one that brings you a beautiful baby.[/quote]

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