The journey to find sperm has been a stressful one. It’s one thing to meet someone, and have the chemistry and know, “I want to have kids with this person.” But when you’re just looking at what they wrote and a picture or two, not as easy. In the end between the two donors we had narrowed it down to, we chose the one from Xytex.
As mentioned in Sperm Stress Continued, I had put it out there to the powers that be, if one sperm were available and one wasn’t, that was a large deciding factor. For the Seattle donor, there was only three left to be released this year, and for further requirement timeframe was unknown, as he was out of the country. The added bonus to Xytex donor was the fact he all ready has confirmed pregnancies, not sure how many, but has been confirmed. So, now it is down to my real estate being possibly cleaned out of the polyp, healing for an undetermined amount of time and we are on our way for the first try.
In the end we just did a pre-purchase of three sperm. The risk loss of return was too high. If you want to return any sperm (that hasn’t left the sperm bank) you only get 50% return, and you only have one year to do it. The benefit of buying in bulk is $120 total, and one year of free storage. In the end, as part of the fees for Calgary Fertility Clinic, you get one year of storage anyway, and we are going at least three tries. If we get pregnant on the first go, then the remaining two will be for when my wife tried in about a year or so. If she needs more, then we will figure things out.
WE HAVE SPERM. One less thing on our to do list, and that much closer to getting pregnant.
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