Hi all. I am quite new to this but looking forward to the journey. I met with the clinic a month ago, they advised that I come off my mini pill for three months before I have my fertility MOT. They have suggested that it will be cheaper in the long run to stick with IVF and to start looking at donor sperm.
the problem is, I watched the recent itv programme ‘born from the same stranger’, which was overall heartwarming. However, I just can’t shake the niggle that even if I go with a donor sperm in the UK (which pretty much seem to be gold dust) or a EU clinic, that there is potentially so many more half siblings out there. I believe it’s 10 in uk and 75 elsewhere.
I looked at exclusive sperm which is something crazy like £40k! Just wondered if there’s any words of encouragement to get over this niggle that seems to be festering.
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Soloparenthelp · 11/02/2024 20:56
Symphony830 · 12/02/2024 19:43
”cheaper in the long run to stick with ivf”
This stood out to me from your original post.
Are you going this alone OP?
helpfulperson · 12/02/2024 19:42
I don’t think of other donor conceived children as half-siblings, in the family dynamics sense of things as it’s not the same as some children having experience of the same dad.
You may not but there is increasing evidence that many of the, now grown up, children of donors do.
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