Vetting a local sperm bank - Cryogam
Apr 17, 2015 12:05:17 GMT -5
Post by esquette on Apr 17, 2015 12:05:17 GMT -5
Hey all!
My Sweetie and I have decided to go the route of anonymous sperm through a bank. I am checking out a local bank, and can find very little information online about them. I emailed them with some questions and got a reply. I'm crowd-sourcing opinions about this, so what do you think?
CryoGam Colorado was established over 25 years ago by Dr. Betsy Cairo. We only stay in touch with donors after their donation time if a client needs a specific genetic test that is rare or not already required by us or the FDA, then we will contact the donor for this. We rely on donors to contact us with any pertinent health information that arises as they age. Twenty five chemical pregnancies are twenty five individual pregnancies per family. Once a donor reaches this limit and still has inventory left we will only allow an individual to purchase the donor if they have proof of a previous pregnancy from that donor, also known as ‘for sibling use only.’ We have a few donors like this on our donor list.
Our donors undergo extensive screening before they are accepted into our program. First they must pass two rounds of quality specimen testing. We generally do not accept donors if their counts are less than 40 million sperm/mL and 50% initial motility and 30% post thaw motility. Most of our donors have numbers much higher than this. Once they pass the initial quality screening we will perform their initial physical and blood draw. You can read more about the testing we do on our donors on our website at www.cryogam.com/#!donor-screening/cn2m. We are licensed by the FDA, CLIA, the State of New York, California, and Maryland. These states have stricter laws relating to donor tissue (especially NY) and require additional tests and procedures that the FDA does not require. For example, in 2012 the State of New York established a law that all donors must be screened for Cystic Fibrosis. We must comply with these regulations and therefore our standards are above any lab that is not licensed in these states.
All of our donors are completely anonymous, and therefore we do not provide childhood photos either. When a donor’s offspring turns 18 they have the right to contact us. We then contact the donor and it is up to him to what extent of communication, if any, he would like to have with the offspring.
We work with many reproductive specialists in the Denver/ Boulder area. Specifically:
Dr. Mark Bush: Conceptions (in Littleton and Lafayette)
Dr. Susan Trout: Colorado Reproductive Endocrinology
Dr. Surrey, Schoolcraft, Minjarez: Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine (in Lone Tree, Denver, Louisville)
I think you will find that we can provide you with the best customer service possible and our prices are reasonable compared to some of the other Cryobanks. We adjust our prices based on the cost of living in Colorado, which is relatively low compared to the East and West coast. We understand how extensive of a process it is when dealing with infertility and we want to give everyone a fair chance at having a child of their own. Please let me know if you have any further questions.
What do you think? Does anything here completely turn you off from these guys?
My Sweetie and I have decided to go the route of anonymous sperm through a bank. I am checking out a local bank, and can find very little information online about them. I emailed them with some questions and got a reply. I'm crowd-sourcing opinions about this, so what do you think?
CryoGam Colorado was established over 25 years ago by Dr. Betsy Cairo. We only stay in touch with donors after their donation time if a client needs a specific genetic test that is rare or not already required by us or the FDA, then we will contact the donor for this. We rely on donors to contact us with any pertinent health information that arises as they age. Twenty five chemical pregnancies are twenty five individual pregnancies per family. Once a donor reaches this limit and still has inventory left we will only allow an individual to purchase the donor if they have proof of a previous pregnancy from that donor, also known as ‘for sibling use only.’ We have a few donors like this on our donor list.
Our donors undergo extensive screening before they are accepted into our program. First they must pass two rounds of quality specimen testing. We generally do not accept donors if their counts are less than 40 million sperm/mL and 50% initial motility and 30% post thaw motility. Most of our donors have numbers much higher than this. Once they pass the initial quality screening we will perform their initial physical and blood draw. You can read more about the testing we do on our donors on our website at www.cryogam.com/#!donor-screening/cn2m. We are licensed by the FDA, CLIA, the State of New York, California, and Maryland. These states have stricter laws relating to donor tissue (especially NY) and require additional tests and procedures that the FDA does not require. For example, in 2012 the State of New York established a law that all donors must be screened for Cystic Fibrosis. We must comply with these regulations and therefore our standards are above any lab that is not licensed in these states.
All of our donors are completely anonymous, and therefore we do not provide childhood photos either. When a donor’s offspring turns 18 they have the right to contact us. We then contact the donor and it is up to him to what extent of communication, if any, he would like to have with the offspring.
We work with many reproductive specialists in the Denver/ Boulder area. Specifically:
Dr. Mark Bush: Conceptions (in Littleton and Lafayette)
Dr. Susan Trout: Colorado Reproductive Endocrinology
Dr. Surrey, Schoolcraft, Minjarez: Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine (in Lone Tree, Denver, Louisville)
I think you will find that we can provide you with the best customer service possible and our prices are reasonable compared to some of the other Cryobanks. We adjust our prices based on the cost of living in Colorado, which is relatively low compared to the East and West coast. We understand how extensive of a process it is when dealing with infertility and we want to give everyone a fair chance at having a child of their own. Please let me know if you have any further questions.
What do you think? Does anything here completely turn you off from these guys?