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The One Off Club Sucks

Azoospermia (Male Infertility) “Rare”,  Anencephaly “One-Off”, Vitiligo “Uncommon”, Von Willebrand Disease “Underdiagnosed and rare”. These were just a few of the fun new words and terms that were thrown at me as we struggled through infertility, having kids and now

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The New Zealand Herald: Sperm donor ‘left me for babies’

This story scares me.  The donor we used, although anonymous and found through proper fertility clinic channels is a man who’s wife was unable to have her own children.  Although our donor stated in his profile that he was donating

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A Journey of Loss and Life!

Blog posts are usually very organic for me, they pop into my head and I write them rather quickly with spelling mistakes and bad grammar all included. I then go back and fix my mistakes hoping that the post looks

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Posted in 40 year old mom, A Mom, amnio, Azoospermia, BGM9581, clomid, DI, DI Baby, DI Child, DI Dad, DI Grandparents, DI Mom, DI Parents, DI Story, down syndrome, fibroids, genetics, Infertility, IUI, Loss of Baby after Infertility, Male Infertility, mommy drugs, pregnancy loss, SAHM, Sperm Bank, Sperm Donor, Sperm Donor BGM 9581, Still Born, Turning 40, twins, Von Willebrands Disease, White Wine

‘The interests of children conceived through egg and sperm donation must be protected’

Yet another article “The interests of children conceived through egg and sperm donation must be protected” has come forward in our Canadian press in support of ending donor gamete anonymity.  I have mentioned before that I struggle with this as I

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Posted in Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, Assisted Reproduction, Azoospermia, Canadian DI Families, Canadian Law, DI, DI Baby, DI Child, DI Dad, DI Grandparents, DI Mom, DI Parents, DI Siblings, DI Story, Infertility, IUI, IVF, judgement, Male Infertility, Olivia Pratten, reported births, Single Moms By Choice, SMC, Sperm Bank, Sperm Donor, Sperm Donor BGM 9581

Richard Hatch Talks About Being a Sperm Donor

Recently Richard Hatch wrote a post on the Donor Sibling Blog about being a Sperm Donor, Connecting with some of his Offspring and his Relationship with the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR). I have posted the article here with my response

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Posted in Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, Assisted Reproduction, Azoospermia, BGM9581, Canadian DI Families, DI, DI Baby, DI Child, DI Dad, DI Grandparents, DI Mom, DI Parents, DI Siblings, DI Story, Infertility, IVF, Male Infertility, pregnancy loss, reported births, Richard Hatch, Single Moms By Choice, SMC, Sperm Donor, Sperm Donor BGM 9581, The Virgin Dad, Trent Arsenault

The Virgin Father: Trent Arsenault

This donor has been all over the news lately including on the Anderson Cooper show. I am not really sure how I feel about this individual, except to say something about him and his story really creeps me out.  I

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None of Your F*#@ing Business!!!

More often then not I get asked “Did you need help to get pregnant?” “Did you have to use IVF?” “Do twins run in your family?” because I have twins.  My initial reaction is to respond “Non-of your F@*#ing business”,

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CSI: Miami Episode – A Sperm Donor Theme

Tonights episode (Sunday January the 29th, 10pm) is called “Terminal Velocity” and has a theme that surrounds a Sperm Donors Death.  Wow, main stream here we come…… The official shows description for tonights episode is: “When a skydiver is murdered,

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Posted in Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, Assisted Reproduction, Azoospermia, BGM9581, Canadian DI Families, CSI: MIami, DI, DI Baby, DI Child, DI Dad, DI Grandparents, DI Mom, DI Parents, DI Siblings, DI Story, facebook, Infertility, IVF, Loss of Baby after Infertility, Male Infertility, Olivia Pratten, pregnancy loss, Sperm Donor, Sperm Donor BGM 9581

A List of Some Online Groups to Help You Through the Day!

I am compiling my own little list of some of the sites I have recently joined and am finding very helpful.  I thought I would share them with my readers.  Although they all have sections about infertility they also have

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Posted in Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, Assisted Reproduction, Azoospermia, BGM9581, Canada, Canadian DI Families, Canadian Law, Christmas and Canada, DI, DI Baby, DI Child, DI Dad, DI Grandparents, DI Mom, DI Parents, DI Siblings, DI Story, facebook, Infertility, IVF, Loss of Baby after Infertility, Male Infertility, Momstown, Momstown Barrie, OHIP, pregnancy loss, Sperm Donor, Sperm Donor BGM 9581, Uncategorized

“Another Film With A Sperm Donation Theme”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/01/16/starbuck-incendies-film-prizes.html The hit comedy Starbuck features Quebec actor Patrick Huard as an immature man who discovers he’s the biological father of more than 500 children through his prolific sperm donations. A slacker, he searches for direction in life through his

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Posted in Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, Assisted Reproduction, Azoospermia, BGM9581, Canadian DI Families, Canadian Law, DI, DI Baby, DI Child, DI Dad, DI Grandparents, DI Mom, DI Parents, DI Siblings, DI Story, Infertility, IVF, Male Infertility, OHIP, Olivia Pratten, pregnancy loss, Sperm Donor, Sperm Donor BGM 9581
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