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How many vials for a full sibling??
maria_79
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Hello,
I'm having a hard time deciding if I should buy more vials of our daughter's donor. We currently have 8 vials in storage. I got pregnant with our daughter on my 3rd IUI(with Femara) but it was the first IUI with our daughter's donor. We only used one vial 24 hours after a positive ovulation test. We plan to start TTC baby #2 this summer or fall and plan to start with doing an in office IUI only using one vial each cycle again. I was 31 when I conceived my daughter but I'll be 35 in July so I'm thinking that maybe I should buy at least a couple more vials before her donor is retired. He's been donating for over 5 years and is close to reaching to his family limit so I'm thinking he'll be retired sometime this year. My husband thinks that 8 vials will be plenty and thinks I'll get pregnant quickly again but I'm just not so sure because I'm older now. It's very important to us that our children be from the same donor. What do you all think?
I'm having a hard time deciding if I should buy more vials of our daughter's donor. We currently have 8 vials in storage. I got pregnant with our daughter on my 3rd IUI(with Femara) but it was the first IUI with our daughter's donor. We only used one vial 24 hours after a positive ovulation test. We plan to start TTC baby #2 this summer or fall and plan to start with doing an in office IUI only using one vial each cycle again. I was 31 when I conceived my daughter but I'll be 35 in July so I'm thinking that maybe I should buy at least a couple more vials before her donor is retired. He's been donating for over 5 years and is close to reaching to his family limit so I'm thinking he'll be retired sometime this year. My husband thinks that 8 vials will be plenty and thinks I'll get pregnant quickly again but I'm just not so sure because I'm older now. It's very important to us that our children be from the same donor. What do you all think?
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4.5 years!
coryandamanda: You have a good point about half sibling families possibly wanting to buy any extra vials in the future. I'm in contact with quite a few families now and I'm sure that more will connect with us in the future so there's a good possibility that someone in our donor sibling group will want them. Did you and your partner conceive all of your children from the same donor?
Our oldest donor sibling isn't even a year - people will always need vials!
Good luck!
Lucky Cycle 14: IVF!! Antagonist Cycle with Lupron Trigger
Our donor is OLD (2003) and when we purchased his vials, we bought all but one, so we knew whatever we had was it. As it turned out, we have enough vials left that we could sell them to another family and there's potentially enough for more than one child.
It all plays out differently for everyone, so the more vials you have, the better off you are (and less stressed). You can always sell the extra vials when your family is complete.
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TTC No. 2 since Aug. 2014; IVF #1 - Cxld; IVF #2 - BFN
We had originally thought we'd want to have enough stored for 2 more children so we had planned to buy 4 more for a total of 12. However, we're now 99% sure that we only want to have 1 more child so we(more my husband) thought that 8 would be plenty. Now I'm thinking we should still buy more just to be sure that it's enough to help us conceive a 2nd baby. I'm going to show my husband this thread to help convince him that we should buy more...lol. Thanks again!
2momsinseattle: I hope that you have quick success and it doesn't come down to using your last vial for IVF. I can imagine that would be very nerve-wracking!
coryandamanda: That's awesome that you and your partner were able to use the same donor for all of you children! 4 is a great number!
palegreen: That's great that you had quick success and that you were able to use the remaining vials to help another family! I'm thinking that it will make me happy if I am able to help another donor sibling family with any extra vials we still have after baby #2. I have a feeling that someone will want our extra vials in the future as my daughter's donor always has a wait list.
EMG_REL: I hope that this cycle is successful! I'm sure you're stressed. Best wishes!
fisch: I'm glad that it all worked out and you got your 2nd baby even though you had to pick a new donor.
Jen727BF: I think 12 is a really good number of vials! I hope it's more than enough to give you another child. Good luck!
Thank you for your input and yes I agree. I think this conversation has helped me to realize that I will feel better about having bought at least a couple more vials while I can. Even if I end up getting pregnant after the first IUI I won't regret it because I can always possibly sell them to an in need half sibling family in the future or back to the sperm bank for 1/2 what we payed. My husband and I talked and he is fine with buying 2 more vials so I am now on the wait list. Now I just don't know whether to buy ICI or IUI vials. I'm leaning towards IUI or one of each. Decisions, decisions...lol.
Mommy to Twins plus One - donor 733
Choosing another donor is also not an option for us either so if I don't get pregnant with another baby after going through all of the vials we have then we'll just accept it and be happy with our one little girl. I'm glad that it all worked out for you and that you got three beautiful children and it's great that you also were able to help another donor family with your left over vials! I hope that they had success in adding to their family too with the vials you helped them with. It will make me happy if we can help another family out the same way sometime in the future.
Some how I missed this post earlier. Wow! That's great that you have frozen embryos and 10 vials in storage for future children! That's crazy that you already have people interested in your vials! Our donor has been donating for over 5 years and ALWAYS has a wait list. I'm actually in contact with about 10 other parents/families that have children from our donor but because our donor hasn't been retired yet, I haven't had any requests for vials. I'm thinking that I will definitely want to be on the surplus side of the equation when and if there is a shortage of our donor's vials(when he stops donating). I think we've been lucky that our donor has been active for so long though. Hopefully he'll be retired sometime soon though. My guess is that he probably has at least 30-40 offspring born by now...but who knows.