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The best book on Donor Insemination to date!!!
If there was only one thing I could say about the book Helping the Stork it would be "Why did it take so long for this book to be written?" Carol Frost Vercollone and Heidi and Robert Moss have written an excellent guide for those thinking about using donor insemination to build their families, and also for those who already have their famlies through DI. This book was written for others to explore the issues surrounding donor insemination and to help them come to their own decisions about this common but not openly talked about form of family building. The added bonus is that it is also written for families, friends and health professionals to help in their understanding of the concerns and the issues that DI families face. The authors, from their own personal experience with DI and through counselling others want to provide reassurance that DI can be a wonderfully positive way to build families. This book has an easy to read style and is filled with...
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November 12, 1998 (Pittsburgh, PA) | Helpful Votes: 78 | Rating: 5

A Support Group in a Book!
Where has this book been? This book has everything you always wanted to know about DI but had no one to ask. Helping the Stork is truly a support group in a book. This book is as technical as necessary but it deals with the feelings involved in the DI process. This is a very warm book and easy to read. No matter what feelings you are having you will find them in this book. The authors recognize that DI is a physical and emotional journey toward parenthood. Why should you own this book? Because although this is the only DI book published in the 1990s, it is also an excellent book. These authors acknowledge that DI is not just for married couples. There is a section on Becoming a Mom Without a Dad, Becoming a Single Mom Through DI, Lesbian Couples Creating Families through DI, and a section on Celebrating Differences. Other sections I think are wonderful include: Putting Together Your Medical Team, Emotional Needs At That First Insemination, Two Methods of Insemination, When...
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November 16, 1997 | Helpful Votes: 32 | Rating: 5

A Godsend for us!
This book was an ENORMOUS help to my husband and me. I agree with some of the other reviewers that it is focused more on the emotional aspects and couples dealing with male infertility and may not be such a great help to single mothers and lesbian couples. But there ARE those of us out here in that category of couples with male factor infertility. My husband and I had already tried unsuccessfully to conceive through ICSI and could not afford more attempts. Donor insemination was our only other option besides adoption. This book focused on EXACTLY what we needed. What are the pros and cons, tell or don't tell others, tell or don't tell the child (I felt they were pro-telling, but discussed the positives and negatives of each choice), known donor or anonymous? These were some of the many issues we were concerned with. I didn't need a biology lesson to learn how it's done - I had other books on infertility to explain that. I didn't need a cost rundown - it varies so much, my...
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October 1, 2002 | Helpful Votes: 25 | Rating: 5

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Helping the Stork The sourcebook for all the information parents-to-be need to know about the choices and challenges of donor insemination Each year donor insemination (DI) offers a pathway to parenthood for the hundreds of thousands who turn to family-building alternatives. Although DI is considered as often as adoption, couples facing male infertility, as well as single women and lesbian couples, have had few places to turn for information about this method, which has been shrouded in secrecy. In Helping the Stork, parents-to-be, as well as friends and family, doctors, and counselors, can explore the choices and challenges raised by this alternative to overcoming childlessness. This comprehensive handbook moves through each step of the process: reaching a solid decision about whether donor insemination is the best choice for a family's future; handling the difficult issue of privacy; selecting a donor and getting started; and learning to thrive as a family meeting DI's added challenges. Full of wisdom from medical and mental health experts, Helping the Stork is also enriched with stories from many families who share their insights and experiences. This book is a reassuring, supportive, and helpful guide that no one considering or going through the process of donor insemination should be without. Visit us online at http://www.mcp.com/mgr Top to learn more

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So when after much persuasion Vicky agrees to donate sperm for testing, Chaddha is delighted to find out that Vicky’s sperm is very much fertile, just as he had predicted. However, the loads of money he makes by being a prolific sperm donor gives him the opportunity to not find a job, shop as much as he wants, party endlessly and buy gifts for his mother and grandmother (Kamlesh Gill). Baldev Chaddha (Annu Kapoor), an infertility expert in Delhi, spots Vicky Arora (Ayushmaan Khurrana), he gets a gut feeling that he has found his ideal sperm donor. She also discovers that Vicky was a sperm donor and leaves him to go to her father’s place in Kolkata as he had not told her the truth before their marriage. Vicky, on the other hand agrees to keep donating sperm for money, even though he is scared of his widowed mother, Dolly (Dolly Ahluwalia), and the society finding out about his clandestine occupation. Is about a young man who turns sperm donor to make some money. His mother and grandmother also find out about his sperm donation and are ashamed of it. What happens next. Chaddha is plagued by demanding couples who want sperms of a certain ‘successful’ type of person. His constant nagging at Vicky irritates not just Vicky but the audience too. Vicky Donor Review: Star Performances Ayushmaan Khurrana makes a confident debut. Vicky Donor Review: Script Analysis Juhi Chaturvedi’s story is novel and interesting. The scenes where Vicky bumbles around in life, where Dr. Chaddha chases him incessantly, where his mother and grandmother sit down for their end-of-day drinks, are all very funny.

Several of the world’s major religions completely condemn all forms of artificial conception, including the use of donor eggs and donor sperm. Positivity is vital and parents may need to stress repeatedly that the sperm donor is a good person and that the child is a good person. If parents don’t want or are uncomfortable with engaging in a discussion of sex, it may be enough to tell the child that sperm donors are kind and generous men who want to help families to have children. The child will therefore understand that they are the result of the compassion of not only their legal parents but also the sperm donor. For many gay, lesbian, choice single parents and infertile couples, donor sperm is a God send. this is also a very important issue for parents who used donated sperm. Particularly young children will probably be confused about sperm. Parents will need to have a full understanding of their own faith and the stance it takes in terms of artificial insemination in order that they may instruct the child on the matter. Couples who choose artificial insemination are loving and courageous people, determined to fight for a chance to raise children and one element of their determination must be a commitment to be open and honest with the child in regard to their... Parents who decide to take the artificial insemination route must be prepared to discuss the matter with the child, at an appropriate time in the future.

A critique of the artificial insemination industry in the United States “. Still today, we have no federal requirement for genetic testing, but many sperm banks, perhaps chastened by the experience of one sperm bank who sold sperm that caused 9... NECC purchased sperm from this donor and 10,000 other units of donor sperm from a defunct Wyoming sperm bank called Rocky Mountain Cryogenics in 1993. It appears that this was the case with the NECC donor in which he was either untested or minimally tested for CF. The real problem was that NECC sold sperm collected at a time when there were no standards for donor screening so this sperm didn’t... Where the Kretchmars purchased their sperm from NECC, they felt that the bank’s website claimed to fully test sperm donors for a host of diseases including CF. The Kretchmar’s decision to use NECC was in part because they appeared to provide a... Obviously, they love their son and cherish every moment they will have with him, but they wouldn’t have chosen sperm from this donor if they had known in advance that the sperm donor was not fully tested for cystic fibrosis. It was not until May 25, 2005 that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) required very specific screening and testing requirements BEFORE potential sperm donors could be approved as donors. The news report interviewed Sharine and Brian Kretchmar who decided to buy donor sperm from the New England Cryogenic Center to conceive their second son Jaxon. Did NECC discard all this untested sperm they acquired from the Wyoming sperm bank in 1993 when these vials failed inspection.

Let me tell you, picking an egg donor is a heck of a lot harder than picking a sperm donor. It’s like do or die at this point, after 2 1/2 years, 4 inseminations, 3 IVFs, 2 sperm donors, more than $100,000 and the emotional drama of a roller coaster, I can’t even think about giving up. Not an option. I’ve faithfully devoted a whole lot of cashola to buy the eggs of another woman, so they can be fertilized with the sperm of some guy I selected on paper and then implanted into me for the ‘growing and harvesting. Your eggs, not your eggs, your genetics, not your genetics – it will be your baby and that will be all that matters. Even managing the challenge of actual selection, I still faced egg donor drama. I was obsessed with the egg donor’s looks. Yep, eggs and I’m not even sure how many eggs I’ll be getting. So I selected my egg donor and wrote the big check. The first donor I picked (consulted with friends/family and agonized over) was no longer available by the time I informed the clinic. So back to the drawing board to pick my third donor. This actually ended up being ok, because the second donor I found was my identical match as a child. Ever wonder what this amount of money can buy you. But no, I didn’t buy any of those things. Buying a small business.

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