There is no one I know better in the sperm industry than Alice Ruby, executive director of The Sperm Bank of California. We met around 2008, at a conference of sperm bank heads. Since then, she has attended my San Francisco-based workshops… been responsive to Q&A that comes up on our discussion boards… and periodically sends…
When choosing a sperm bank, many parents focus on finding a donor with specific characteristics, but don’t pay as much attention to the policies of the bank. This could have a profound impact on the family and the child someday. Do not pick a bank simply because it is the one recommended by your doctor…
Pacific Reproductive Services provided advertising funds toward creating the Choice Mom E-Guide:About Sperm. Periodically on the discussion boards, or in individual emails to me, women will ask for information about Pacific Reproductive Services, which is a less well-known sperm bank that was formed in 1984 to help single women and lesbian couples who were facing…
NW Cryobank became an advertiser in 2014 for our E-guides “About Sperm” and “About Eggs” (it provides both), and is starting to build a stronger relationship with the Choice Mom community. About Sperm Though I am still getting acquainted with the bank, it has a nice one-stop shopping aspect for many in the Choice Mom…
Not surprisingly, the movie Delivery Man made the rounds on a Choice Mom discussion board recently. The movie is about a former sperm donor who discovers he has 500 offspring – the revelation of which, Hollywood style, helps make him into a man. On the board, there was a mixture of myth and reality as…
Well, it was quite a week. I spent an inordinate amount of time talking all about sperm. I was invited to speak at the American Association for Tissue Banks in a talk directed to sperm bank industry reps about what we as Choice Moms do and do not like about the options available to us.…
A woman recently wrote about how exhausted she is about the Trying stage. Several IUIs, an IVF, lots of money spent. She was tired, out of money, and wondered if she should give up what has been an obsession to become a mother.
A Choice Mom who is always thinking of ways to boost the community emailed recently to suggest a "sperm sharing" service.
There is a national discussion starting in the Australian Parliament about how to regulate and legislate donor conception practices across federal and state lines.
Several years ago I got a call from the long-time co-founder of California Cryobank (CCB), gently and intelligently "checking me out" as an educational partner in his attempt to help his colleagues in the sperm bank industry understand why some policies needed to change. Since then…
