Considering at-home insemination with donor sperm...?

[DaisyDoodles]

Scare over!!

I have been sleeping with my mouth open!

My temps are back up and I've tested (just a few times!) and they're much darker, DH bought me a clearblue digital test yesterday and that said Pregnant straight away... so think I'm pretty much gonna have to accept it!!

 

[topazicatzbet]

yay

 

[LunaBean]

I'm hoping the 'assisted conception' forum isn't in reply to our PMs to mods about a general gay forum...and that it was going to be made anyway...

 

[topazicatzbet]

think you might be dissapointed luna i bet it is. it mentions donors

 

[LunaBean]

I hope not! We wanted a general gay forum, about everything from Civil Partnerships to how to tell your kids nursery teacher you're a same sex couple! As well as TTC/parenting etc too!

 

[leese16]

Hey guys

Ive been floating around the forum for a while but not seen any threads like this. My partner and I have successfully conceived via home insemination on the first attempt from a lovely donor.

If anyone wants any info on how to maximise your chances of the insemination working please feel free to PM me as our donor gave us so much advice its unreal but it obviously works as we are now expecting our first child after just one cycle

Good luck to everyone trying x

 

[day_dreamer]

I hope not! We wanted a general gay forum, about everything from Civil Partnerships to how to tell your kids nursery teacher you're a same sex couple! As well as TTC/parenting etc too!

Here here!! A general gay forum would be all kinds of awesome

 

[DaisyDoodles]

Hi leese and welcome!

Your donor wouldn't be from the East Midlands area would he?? If so, then there are several of us here who have also used him successfully!!

 

[RubyRainbows]

Daisy --- so happy for you! Yaayy! Congrats!

 

[RubyRainbows]

Luna -- i would love to see a gay forum also -- seperate from the assisted conception.... so maybe one day that one will pop up too!!!! Then i'll be on BnB even more than i am now!!!!! Is that even possible?!

 

[lyvian]

my partner Viv, went to tell her parents today that she is TTC through insemination. I'm nervous becuase they don't take news like this well. when Viv came out to her parents, their relationship suffered for 7 years. It's finally in the past 4 yrs that they have formed a nice relationship. We are both afraid that this news would once again rock their relationship. Viv and I (lydia) want them very much to be apart of our child (keeping positive that we will conceive on our second try). Now I sit here in pin and needles waiting to see how it went.

 

[RubyRainbows]

Lyvian, i hope the news goes well! Maybe it will take awhile to sink in for them. I go extremely slowly with my mom....... i've slowly been warming her up to the idea for quite some time! I don't give her all the details though -- way too much for her to handle i think, lol. Keep us posted! Hope your OH is having a positive experience! Besides, by the time the baby arrives -- her family will be so happy! Babies make everyone happy!

 

[lyvian]

Ruby!!
They are excited. they took it better than Viv and I expected!! They even told her, 'you found a sperm donor yet?' I believe my partner Viv almost fell off her chair, I know I would have LOL. We weren't even going to tell them that LOL. This is great news to us. Now waiting to try again. Hopefully next week

 

[topazicatzbet]

thats great news.

 

[mommies1and2]

My partner and I are doing our first at home insemination on Monday and are so excited! We have had a hard time finding details about the actual insemination process though so I thought I'd just put my questions out there and see what comes back to us...

We are using fresh sperm and know that we need to wait 30 minutes to give the swimmers time to liquify. Then we use the syringe to insert it, put in my menstrual cup, make love and hope it works! We are trying to time it so that we inseminate three days in a row, hopefully with the day of ovulation falling on the 2nd inseminaton.

Anyone out there have any suggestions that might help? Thanks in advance for your feedback!

 

[topazicatzbet]

i wouldnt wait 30 mins, 5-10 is what i do. 30 seems too long.

i try to do 3 inseminations also and i use pre seed and soft cups.
good luck

 

[EpdTTC]

Congrats Daisy!

So glad the talk with Viv's parents went well. That's great news!

Good luck Mommies1and2! I think that if you read back through the thread, you will find a lot of good tips, although your plan sounds like a good one. I probably waited 20-45 minutes depending on the situation before inseminating. It's fine. It worked! Plus when I went for IUIs at my doc office, I would drop off the sperm sample at 7am, they would do their thing and my inseminations wouldn't be until 8:30 or so! I think that 20-30 minutes is ideal, sometimes I would wait that long though and the stuff still wasn't quite liquefied enough. Sometimes I think the time it takes to liquefy varies from male to male. Good luck!

 

[topazicatzbet]

i think your prob right cos my donors is always like water straight away.

 

[Nimyra]

I only waited 10, 15 minutes tops. Your plan sounds great though! good luck!

 

[RubyRainbows]

Ruby!!
They are excited. they took it better than Viv and I expected!! They even told her, 'you found a sperm donor yet?' I believe my partner Viv almost fell off her chair, I know I would have LOL. We weren't even going to tell them that LOL. This is great news to us. Now waiting to try again. Hopefully next week

That's awesome!!!!!!!