Category Archives: sperm shopping
Different Donors
My sons have two different donors. Different donors, different biological mothers. In effect, they have no biological connection. They are brothers, for sure. Cakie is learning everything he needs to know about how to be a child from his willing … Continue reading
Filed under family, my second son, sperm shopping
The Donor Mark
My son has the likes-to-watch-sports gene. He did not get this from me. I don’t plan to point things like this out to my kids. There’s this unspoken fear of the moment when we will need to address the fact … Continue reading
Filed under family, IUI, LGBT, my second son, my son, sperm shopping, Trucker
Happy Birthday to….
…my blog! And my mom! I won’t say how old my mother is. She looks almost as young as me and her spirit is that of a twenty-year-old while I still sometimes trip over into worried grandma mode. So happy … Continue reading
Come In On Saturday…
… but don’t bring that sperm with you! Doctor’s orders. He doesn’t trust a sperm bank that won’t get certified to ship to New York since New York City has the highest concentration of sperm-buyers (who knew?) That’s nice and … Continue reading
Filed under IUI, sperm shopping, teaching, the big guns
Inter-state Sperm Update
The sperm bank will ship to Jersey. Now I need to find a person in Jersey who’s willing to accept a stranger’s sperm on their doorstep. The siblings have been notified. I also need to see if my doctor will … Continue reading
Filed under family, IUI, NYC What is it about you?, sperm shopping, the big guns
That’s It! We’re Moving to Jersey…
The freaking cheap sperm bank won’t ship to New York. AAAAAaaaaarrrrrrgggh. So I’m asking them if they will ship it to my “second home” in New Jersey. (My brother’s house would be my second home.) I don’t know if my … Continue reading
Filed under IUI, NYC What is it about you?, sperm shopping
How To Inseminate At Home
A Guide for the Future Lesbian Family, or Single-Mom-By-Choice (I’ve been teaching my second-grade class how to write a “How-To” book, so I’ll follow that format. I’m writing this because I have so many folks who find my site by … Continue reading
Filed under LGBT, sperm shopping, TTC, Waiting and waiting and...
Hypochondriac Moment and a Spermy Question
I woke up this morning with a sore finger. It is sore and it has a lump in it. I couldn’t figure out what happened. Then half-way through the day I remembered that I’m on birth control and I decided … Continue reading
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Silver Linings
I always manage to find them. Silver Lining #1 Ok. According to my friends — not Dr. Otherguy who was too busy in his swamped, post-Yom Kippur office to explain things to me thoroughly– after I go off the pill … Continue reading
Filed under sperm shopping, Uncategorized, Waiting and waiting and...
Two Letters
Letter #1 To editors of all women’s magazines with a demographic over 21 years old: You know the article? The one in which you talk about how working women should not put off baby-making until it is too late? For … Continue reading
