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

I just marked your site as a fav and posted...hopefully we'll be able to build a nice little community specifically for LGBT families! :friends:

Off to play racquetball... have a lovely day ladies!
 
Hi Daisy,

No he's not from the East Midlands, he lives quite a way from us to lessen the chance of our children and any other of his conceived meeting and forming any sort of relationship without realising who each other is. Sounds quite strange but I saw his point when he talked about someone donating to a lot of people in a single area. He's lovely though.

So, have you only just found out you're pregnant then? Was this your first attempt?

Sorry, so many questions, such an exciting time for all of us :)
x
 
One guy who we were talking to awhile back rang me about 20 minutes ago, saying he's free to help us now, he couldn;t with work committments before, so thats good news! I wana be pregnant now dammit! This should be my babies first christmas, I shouldnt still be charting and temping and testing!!
 
Ok, against my better judgment, here are some bump pics. Sometimes I don't look pregnant at all and other times I look enormous! Just depends on what position I stand in and if I have just eaten or not! I am 18 wks tomorrow. I have been starting to show since about 12 wks. Sometimes I look pregnant and other times I just look extra chunky! Don't mind my sexy maternity jeans!
 

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Bump pics! How cute! Thanks for posting Erin!

Luna -- Big hugs :hugs: Any new developments there for you yet?? You will have a baby soon! I feel it!

So my donor responded to the email i wrote asking to meet on Nov. 1st @ 2pm. He said earlier in the day works better for him. The problem is check-in at the hotel isn't until 2pm. I'm trying to think "outside the box" of ways to make this work...

Any suggestions???
 
Ruby, any chance you could get the hotel to allow an early check in or maybe reserve the room for the prior night so it's available earlier in the day?

Erin, I am SOOOO jealous of your sexy, maternity jeans! :winkwink:
 
you could contact the hotel and say you're booking the room to get ready for a wedding that afternoon, and would it be possible to check-in earlier, always works for me! :D
 
Theres not much on it yet, but it'll be good once we start posting some more! :)
 
Hey Lizzie-I signed up for the Rainbow Mommies forum but it won't let me post or reply. What am I missing?
 
I'm really sorry Ruby!! :hugs: Fx next month will bring you your BFP!

Leese, our donor sounds very much like yours, he also lives a fair way for us and will only donate to people if there are no other recipients within a 30 mile radius.. his names Martin!
And yes, I've only just found out I'm pregnant.. had my first doctors appointment this morning! :winkwink:
 
Our donor is the same - he's donated to people in different parts of the country but only one person/couple in each area. He also sends us an update whenever a new baby is born and we have a list of the first names and the geographical area of each child (of those whose parents have agreed to do so - there are an additional three children that we know exist but not where or their names/genders). That way if our child comes home from uni some time saying 'this is my new boy/girlfriend, X from Thistown' then we can suggest they ask a few pointed questions about X's family background. At the end of the day, people move - we now live 60 miles from where Ember was conceived and born and there are other children conceived by our donor in our now nearest city. We know their names and genders though, which I think is more useful than just an assumption that kids that grow up 30 miles apart will never meet.

Ruby, I've no great advice to you on the thinking outside the box plan, but I'm really sorry this wasn't your month and will be keeping my fingers crossed that next month is. The logistical challenge can't be fun.

Daisy, how did it go at the docs?

It's Ember's third birthday tomorrow. I'm finding it quite surreal remembering that at this moment three years ago I was in early labour, the pool was being set up and I was eating my last meal before the birth (egg and toast). And soon we'll be doing it all again!

Gina. x
 
So things we learned our first time...it's hard to get the sperm into the syringe in the dark, brush your teeth before you climb on the pillows, laughing too much after insertion can be a mistake, and make sure you have a towel. :oops: I'd forgotten how ooky sperm is...every time I laughed (which was often) some came out even though I was on a mountain of pillows so high I could barely breathe!

Tonite I am going to use my Diva (menstrual) cup and just want to make sure I do it right. You put it in empty after the insem, right? Do you have to wait 20 minutes or can you do it right away?
 
Mommies1and2-

Yes, I should have mentioned a towel and having some tissues handy! Also, make sure you pee right before insemination! When I did my last insemination, I used a syringe to insert the sperm, relaxed for 10-20 minutes and then inserted an Instead soft cup. I think that I may have used a little Preseed around the edges just for easy insertion and good measure :) I don't think that you have to wait, I guess in my mind I just wanted to give the spermies time to get where they were going before I disrupted my vagina with the softcup. But that's just my weird logic-I don't know that there is anything to it or not. I know some gals also put the spermies right in the cup and insert it. Good luck tonight!
Erin
 
Good luck tonight Mommies1&2. We never used any kind of menstrual cup with our insems so can't help on that front, we just lay on a towel and accepted that there was going to be some level of icky leakage. :)

Gina. x
 
So...I had a gender scan again today and it looks like I am on team :pink:

Baby took a while to cooperate-had her knees bent, but then straightened out her legs and we got some pretty good looks. I am attaching two pics, one is a shot of her little hand :cloud9:and the other is a shot of her girl bits. You can see three little lines which is supposed to be a girl (they say it looks like a little hamburger). For boys, you see a little turtle head. So here's to hoping they got it right!
 

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