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home insemination and non sterile cups!

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ttcfreakout · 04/11/2021 19:30

I've been attempting home insemination for a while and previously got a fertility kit from Amazon that had cups individually packaged in plastic, so they were sterile. I forgot to reorder when I ran out of cups and had to do a quick order yesterday as I got flashing smiley. The new cups arrived today and they're not sterile - they just came loose in the parcel and weren't separately wrapped in plastic. DH and I were halfway through what we were doing when we realised, I wasn't sure whether to use them but he said it would be fine. He deposited into the cup, we put the syringe in, inserted the sperm into me. Now I'm freaking out because of infection risk, anything could be inside the cups if they're not sterile. Am I going nuts?

I know some people on here have used, say, a clean yoghurt pot for insemination but I think it's more that I don't know much about the origin of these cups, they are from a medical supplies seller on Amazon but that doesn't reassure me! The reviews of the item are mostly from people who use them for urine samples so I guess they wouldn't be worried about introducing infections inside.

Please be gentle - I have a history of health anxiety and paranoid about HIV thanks to a scare in the past.

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