Seeking vials for donor #16499
EBMH2020
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Hello - seeking IUI or ICI vials for donor 16499 to give my child a genetic sibling. Please reply if you have extra vials to sell!
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Hi! We're one of your donor-sibling families (my wife is the one who posted in the sibling registry in response to your first post, actually). I'm wildly late in responding to this, as I only found it by Google searching our donor # on a whim - but we might have a few vials we'd be willing to transfer to a donor-sibling family. Are you still interested, or has too much time passed? @EBMH2020
Hi! Thanks so much for reaching out! We are still interested but with a little caveat and curiosity about your experience. We originally purchased three vials and were lucky to conceive my daughter on the first try. When we went back to try again, we discovered at each thaw that the sperm quality was really bad - bad enough that CC gave us replacement vials for free. And looking back at the vial we used the first time, the quality was subpar on that one, as well. We have moved on to another donor but I would love the opportunity to have more vials from the original donor - just concerned about quality. Did you have any similar issues?
@DnDParent sorry not sure if this will flag you if I didn’t @ you back!
@EBMH2020 Oof, that must have been so rough when you went through those thaws, I'm sorry. I will call our fertility clinic tomorrow to see if they have notes on the quality of the sperm, since it was back in 2022 and I can't remember! We did IVF and so our clinic may have cared a little less about the quality - but we did only need one vial to end up with ~9 viable embryos (and if I remember how IVF attrition works I think more than those 9 must have been initially fertilized). Hopefully I can get you more definitive info soon!
Wow - NINE embryos! Thats fantastic! Out of curiosity, how many vials do you have left? I really appreciate you following up on the quality - that’s very kind of you. (The issue was total motile sperm count.) thank you
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Thank you, we did get really lucky! ❤️ Right now we have 3 vials, and I think we'd easily give up 2 right now, maybe all 3.
A little bit of an infodump to explain: A lab accident left us with only 4 embryos - although the clinic did promise us a free round of egg retrieval & embryo creation, if needed, because of the accident. I could see us hanging onto 1 of the 3 vials because of that promise, in case we try to make more embryos. But our son came from the first embryo of the 4, and my wife is now pregnant with the second ... And we still have 2 embryos left while being unsure if we want a 3rd child. So my security -blanket attachment towards keeping one vial on hand is dwindling. I could completely see us transferring you the last vial if the initial 2 vials don't lead to success, just because I'd ultimately rather support you guys having genetic siblings than be a hoarder
@DnDParent thank you for sharing your experience - I can’t imagine how stressful a lab accident must have been!! The fertility journey definitely isn’t for the faint of heart.
It’s incredibly thoughtful of you and your wife to consider transferring any vials at all in support of a sibling for my daughter! And congrats on your pending addition!
Hi, I just wanted to update and say I'm still trying to get that historic info - I've worked my way through a few different people, and think that I found the right source. Just waiting on a callback!
Hi and thanks so much for the update! I happened to be on a call with CCB and asked about the process for transferring vials. There is paperwork and notarizing on both sides, and sounds like it takes ~30 days, but is possible as long as the vials are still with CCB. I neglected to ask - what kind of vials are they - unwashed, washed, IVF? I am wondering if some of the quality issues we experienced were due to unwashed IUI (meaning our lab washed, which was their preference at the time). Thanks again!