New Page

I added a new page to post our insem plans. When we actually start trying they will be more detailed. I just wanted it all in one place so we didn’t have to go through posts looking for each cycle. Not very positive of me is it? I plan on having so many cycles that it would ne a pain to keep track of them. Ever the realist…

Chugging Right Along

We’re registered with a sp e rm bank and selected several donors, 6 to be exact. We have ranked them 1-6. That was so hard to do! We knew we wanted dark hair and an ethnic background similar to R’s. We didn’t want anyone with fair skin or fine hair. Since we want to eventually use the same donor for R when we try with her uterus again we didn’t want anyone with a family history of heart problems. (R was born with mitral valve and tricuspid valve prolapse with an atrial septal defect). I have a family history of breast and colon cancer so we didn’t want that in his background wither. We didn’t feel like we were very picky. Is that bad? Should we have been much more concerned about things? The guys all have healthy backgrounds. Some are of mixed race. Race wasn’t a real priority for us. We were much more concerned with health. We felt like if we had selected someone with family history of the cancers that are in my family or the heart problems in R’s family (her brothers, mom, and niece also have heart murmurs but none as serious as hers was) we were setting them up for health problems. All we want is a healthy child. I know how terrible I felt watching R go through her heart surgery. I can’t imagine going through that again with our child.