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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We did IUIs Shady Grove, and were quite pleased.  Dr. Osbourne was our main doctor.  IUI.  California Cryobank--all sperm banks have minimum standards for their sperm, so I don't think quality is usually an issue.  Cost depends on ICI vs. IUI and whether a donor is willing to let the kid contact him when the kid is 18 (open or identity release donors).  You can see baby pics of most of their donors.  Your insurance will probably cover some of the costs.

ICI with frozen sperm takes an average of 12 months to conceive, so we went with IUI and DW got pregnant our 3rd month.

We're a lesbian couple, so it was basically a 0 sperm count issue for us.  Shady Grove recommended some preliminary fertility testing for DW before she tried IUI, and the testing was pretty easy and covered by insurance.  She said the IUI procedure really wasn't bad at all, and each one took less than 5 minutes.[/quote]

Thank you for sharing and congrats on results :)

What about the cost, can you share that info, of course if you don't mind :) [/quote]

I think the cost was about $600 per vial of IUI identity release sperm plus $150-200 for shipping (special liquid nitrogen cannister).  Access to all info on donors cost us about $150?  This was all about 3 years ago, so my memory is a little fuzzy.  You can check their current prices online easily and browse donors.  You and your husband should look into how you're going to handle telling your kid (it's very hard to keep this a secret forever, especially when kids study genetics in high school) and whether you want to do an identy relsease donor.  The main reason we picked California Cryobank was that they had the largest selection of identity release donors, but if that's not important to you, there are a lot of other banks.  Fairfax Cryobank is in this area, so you might be able to save on shipping costs.[/quote]

I wonder what Shady Grove charged you. Donor info ( $ ) is available but IUI costs never are openly shown on the sites. Funny in Europe they can show all costs on the web site (with all possible scenarios but in USA they dont do that.

We mainly I decided we are going to go with anonym. donor. I personally do not want to share our story with anyone in the family. Nobody knows about this and we decided to keep it.  If we were open to open identy donor, I would go to my friend(s) for fresh sperm. We have at least 2 friends who have an awesome personality and are dying to have kids . One of them is single and he lost his hopes that he will ever will meet his special one :) so he is really asking if we would use him at least he will have continuation of his family... the other friend's girl friend is not open him having a baby with us :) she already has a kid, but he does not and he wants to have a kid but she refuses to give birth ever again. Funny how life sometimes ironic those who want can't have those who don't want have (some or plenty) :)

OK looking forward for more info, hopefully from those who used other places/clinics. Congrats again!

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PP here.  If you've been discussing this with your friends someone will eventually slip up and tell your child, or your child will figure it out when they have a unit in biology about recessive/dominant traits and something doesn't quite line up between the child and dear old dad.  The identity release donors don't have any role in the kid's life (unlike the what you're thinking about regarding your friends), the kid just has the option to contact him when they turn 18.

IUI costs will vary greatly depending on whether insurance will cover any of it.[/quote]

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