Before we asked my brother-in-law to be our donor, we had a meeting with the donor coordinator at our fertility clinic. We learned a little about donor sperm and donor embryos. When we got home I did my own research about the regulations, specifically about FDA regulations about known donor sperm. The major areas of […]
After telling our families about our infertility, we decided we needed to talk to a counselor about our options. We had a LOT of questions and anxiety about each choice. We paid the $1,000 sign up fee with an adoption agency. We didn’t want to waste any more time. I’m so glad we did this […]
It’s been a few weeks since Mr.E’s mTESE during which zero sperm were found. *sigh* Plan A was to get pregnant like everyone else does. Didn’t happen. Plan B was to get pregnant using mTESE, ICSI, and IVF. Not gonna happen. So now we have to move to Plan C. But we don’t know what […]
We switched clinics several weeks ago. Not because I didn’t like my last clinic, actually I loved it and tried extremely hard to stay with them, but their policy is to require the 6 month quarantine for sperm from a known donor, also called a directed donor. You can read more about that quarantine here […]
Mr.E – age 30 – age 28 at diagnosis of idiopathic non-obstructive azoospermia (which basically means he has no sperm for an unknown reason) – varicocele in left testicle; repaired March 2013 – Hashimoto’s thyroiditis diagnosed July 2013 (taking 2 grains Naturethroid and living the “Paleo life)” – MTHFR A1298C heterozygous – negative for karyotype, […]
Wondering what next? Here’s an Azoospermia Protocol. After Mr.E’s diagnosis of azoospermia, I knew my best weapon would be information. I needed to know how to beat it. I found people talking in forums about doing biopsies and sperm retrievals. And then I read about a guy who had to be on testosterone supplements for […]
Operation: Miracle 