The Big Purchase

We bought $2,670 worth of sperm on Friday. Yeah... Happy Solstice to us! Speaking of, we will be transporting the sperm from one bank to the other next Friday so wish us luck. I promise a much longer post this week!

The Rising Cost of Sperm

So, we had planned out a fun relaxing trip to CA in January that would include picking up the sperm (from whatever donor we eventually decide on) and delivering it to the bank I used to work at (California Cryobank) for storage, visiting friends and revisiting all the places we love and miss in San Francisco. Then I checked the website for The Sperm Bank of California (where we are buying the sperm) last night and found good and bad news. Good news we don't have to be registered to buy the long profiles, medical charts, and staff impressions...this is good as our doctor is on maternity leave and we have to wait to get some of the information needed to register; Bad news is that the prices are going up $50 per vial as of the first of January which is kinda significant. We are now thinking that we should go in December over Solstice for the big buying and transferring extravaganza which is stressful but perhaps a precursor of the reality that not everything can be planned? Just as an FYI for all y'all not following the rising cost of sperm; a vial of IUI, Identity-Release sperm now goes for about $500 bucks; 2 per month and an average of 5 months to get pregnant...you do the math because I don't want to think about it! :)