Sperm Donation

Where to Start for Information on Donor Sperm?

• Check out the following Creating a Family radio shows:
  • March 28, 2012: Legal and Immigration Issues with Egg/Sperm Donation or Surrogacy Abroad (Listen Now)

  • January 18, 2012: Choosing an Egg or Sperm Donor: Medical and Genetic Considerations (Listen Now)

  • August 17, 2011: Legal Issues with Donor Egg, Sperm, and Embryos (Listen Now)

• Other Creating a Family Resources:

  • Creating a Family blogs on To Know or Not to Know- That is the Question with Donor Egg or Sperm and To Know or Not to Know: Using Identified or Anonymous Egg or Sperm Donors

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Books, Articles, and Information on Sperm Donation:

• An explanation between home insemination, intra uterine insemination, and in vitro insemination can be found here.

  

• ChoiceMoms.org has a great guide to choosing a sperm bank and a sperm donor.

• I loved this article by a mom discussing donor conception with her teen daughter who was conceived through donor sperm. The daughter’s matter-of-fact acceptance speaks volumes. (This was a couple with male factor infertility.)

• American Society for Reproduction Medicine "Third Party Reproduction (Sperm, egg, and embryo donation and surrogacy) A Guide for Patients"

• Information about donor sperm insemination from The Center for Reproductive Health

• List of Sperm Banks in the United States

• Talking with Children Conceived Through Donor Insemination, IVF with Egg Donor or Surrogacy By Ellen Singer, LCSW-C with The Center for Adoption Support and Education

• Selecting a Sperm Bank and Donor published by Mikki Morrissette, author of Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman’s Guide.

• Tips for Choosing a Sperm Donor from Conceive Online.

• Helping the Stork: The Choices and Challenges of Donor Insemination by Carol Vercollone, Heidi Moss, and Robert Moss (Wiley, 1997).

• Fairfax Cryobank has a great brochure with basic general information on Donor Insemination: What You Need to Know.

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Sperm Donation Support Resources:

• For infertile couples using donor sperm, most infertility forums either have a section for male factor or encourage male factor/sperm donation posts in their general forum. Our list of online infertility support groups can be found here.

• Support resources for single mothers:

  • ChoiceMoms.org has an online discussion board, which is closed to the community. You can register here.

  • Single Mothers by Choice has an online forum, but you must become a member to use it.

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Sperm Donation Blogs:

• Out of the Petri Dish . . . Into the Fire- Dad has Klinefelter's Syndrome. They conceived via Donor Sperm and IVF. Their son was born premature in 2011. They would like to try again using their frozen embryos, but for now can’t swing it financially.

• DI Dad- Father who had two children using donor sperm.

• Ambition: Motherhood- After three IVFs, and one FET, couple is now pregnant using IUI and donor sperm.

• Banking on a Family- Severe male factor infertility. Decided on donor sperm rather than IVF/ICSI, but eventually had a child using IVF.

• DI Family. Couple trying to conceive using IUI and donor sperm.

• Child of a Stranger- Story of an donor conceived adult woman searching for her anonymous sperm donor.

• Confessions of a Cryokid- Donor conceived adult searching for her biological father.

• Donated Generation- Donor conceived person (now a father) discussing donor conception practices and searching for his biological family.

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Donor Sperm Videos:

• This video explains the differences between Intrauterine (IUI) vs. Intracervical (ICI) insemination.

• A video explaining the different pregnancy rates expected from home insemination (vaginal insemination) and intrauterine insemination can be found here.

• This video discusses timing of Artificial Insemination and how to use home ovulation predictor kits.

• Here is a video of a single woman talking about her experience using sperm donation.

• Donor Unknown | Documentary about Children of a Sperm Donor

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