How to Ship Sperm on the Internet: Get Pregnant Without Ever Having Sex, Paying a Sperm Bank, or Leaving Your Home

By Joe Donor

This book discusses shipping chilled semen as an alternative to sperm banks. It explains in detail with many photographs, drawings, and other images how to determine a recipient’s fertile time, how to prepare and ship chilled semen samples, how to inseminate, and how to test for pregnancy. Explains in detail how recipients can protect their privacy. It explains in detail with many photographs, drawings, and other images how to time insemination by predicating ovulation with the OPK (ovulation prediction kit, with detailed explanation of various types of test and how to read them), by charting basal temperatures, by evaluating changes in cervical mucus, by evaluating changes in the position of the cervix, and by being aware of mittelschmerz (ovulation pains). It explains what to do when the unexpected, such as two ovulations in one cycle, happens. The book then summarizes key dates in the woman’s reproductive cycle. It explains in detail with many photographs, drawings, and other images the contents of the shipping kit and how the private donor can collect semen, prepare it for shipping, and ship it. Discusses in detail how to ship semen overnight with express mail carriers such as UPS or FedEx, including many problems that arise and how to deal with them, such as what to do when you need to deliver on Sunday or holidays when the carriers do not deliver. It explains in detail with many photographs, drawings, and other images what semen should appear like when the recipient receives the samples and how to evaluate the semen for viability with a desk-top microscope and with a hand-held microscope and how to inseminate with a syringe, speculum, catheter, or Instead Softcup. It explains when to start taking the home pregnancy test (HPT), with many pictures of test results.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Joe Donor
• Release date: Oct 21, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310124495

Joe Donor

I am an admin on a sperm donor group on Facebook. I am also a donor with dozens of kids. I find women looking to use a donor often ask the same questions. So do men who want to be a donor. I often have to write the answers many times. No doubt some people asking the questions can't always find the answers later. So I have tried to collect together in one location all the answers to the questions people ask most frequently about donation, so that I can easily refer people to the books and they can go back to those books later if they forget. Good luck to all in their journey.Sono l'amministratore di un gruppo facebook sulla donazione di seme: io stesso sono un donatore con numerosi figli biologici.Ho notato che molte donne che si avvicinano a questo argomento la prima volta hanno spesso le stesse domande e gli stessi dubbi , idem per gli aspiranti donatori e quindi spesso devo dare più volte le medesime risposte. Per questo ho deciso di raccogliere tutte le risposte alle domande più frequenti sulla donazione nello stesso libro in modo tale da facilitare il percorso di chi si avvicina la prima volta a questo argomento e anche per chi volesse ricontrollare certe informazioni per sicurezza. Buona fortuna per il percorso che state per iniziare!

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Chapter 1: Efficacy of Shipping Chilled Semen

Many women ask: What are my chances?

As a donor with many first cycle successes, I know that I am offering that possibility from my side, I think a woman’s chances with me are as good as they would be with anyone else, but that is not to say every woman will succeed in the first cycle. Much depends on her underlying fertility, age, health, and lifestyle. Much also depends on luck.

Although there are no studies available in humans, we know from studies in animal breeding that chilled semen is about half as effective as fresh semen (i.e., such as sexual intercourse) and about twice as effective as frozen semen. If we assume that pregnancy occurs in about 20% of cycles in which fertile women have sexual intercourse with a fertile male during the most fertile time of their cycles (this is a widely accepted figure), and that chilled shipped semen is about half as effective, then the expected percentage of women who fall pregnant during or before each successive cycle in which they inseminate with chilled shipped semen, in comparison with the expected percentage of women who fall pregnant by sexual intercourse, would look something like this:

By way of comparison, in Clinical Methods: The History, Physical, and Laboratory Examinations, a 1990 text book, authors Hatcher & Kowal cite an unwanted pregnancy rate of 89%: out of 100 women who started out the year not wanting to become pregnant but also not taking any action to prevent pregnancy. It is very close to the 93.1% we would expect to get pregnant within a year of trying to conceive.

My success rate, 4 positive pregnancy tests after about 30 cycles of shipping reflects a 1st cycle success rate, as most women quit after 1-2 cycles, and many who try longer are older or heavier. Statistically, a few women will get pregnant in the first cycle, but many won’t. The women who don’t succeed right away often become discouraged and give up.

Unfortunately many women who want to work with a free donor may suffer from diabetes, polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), advanced maternal age, tobacco dependency, etc., and aren’t in the healthiest, most fertile category of women who would expect to fall pregnant in 20% of cycles in which they try to conceive with fresh semen.

If for example they were half as fertile as the most fertile women, expecting to get pregnant in 10% of cycles with fresh semen, then those women wouldn’t be hitting the 50% success threshold until around one year of trying.

So, women who want to become pregnant using shipped semen would want to plan on six months of trying if they are a healthy, height-weight-proportional 20-year-old and maybe plan on 12 months of trying if they are obese, a heavy smoker, or 40+ years old.

If you’re reading this and you’re overweight, don’t envy thin women just yet. I’ve known more than one very fit recipient who had difficulty getting pregnant which I suspect was caused by low body fat due to a very strict physical fitness regimen. I have also known women to experience difficulty getting pregnant and issues during pregnancy due to rapid weight loss on a fad diet. Moderation in all things is the key. I recommend try to walk 30 minutes a day, and stop drinking all beverages except for water, as a way to moderately reduce weight. Trying to conceive while overweight may ultimately be better than waiting to lose weight, or embarking on an extreme diet/exercise program. Just understand it may take longer than the average.

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Chapter 2: What can a recipient do to increase her chances?

I don’t know of any herb, vitamin, or other therapy that will make a woman more fertile.

Yes, there are prenatal vitamins; folic acid is often recommended for women who are trying to conceive. However, those are to make a woman’s body more hospitable for the pregnancy, not to increase chances of falling pregnant.

Although there isn’t a magical pill to increase your chances, here are some common sense actions you can take.

From the above figures, we expect that about half of recipients who are attempting to conceive via natural insemination (NI, i.e., sexual intercourse) would get pregnant after 3-4 cycles. We would expect more than 90% of recipients to fall pregnant after 12 cycles of trying to conceive with NI. In comparison, we expect that about half of women would get pregnant after 6-7 cycles with chilled, shipped semen. Therefore, when a recipient tries to conceive via shipping, she should plan to try for 6-7 cycles on average. If she plans on 6-7 cycles, she is less likely to become discouraged and quit when the first attempt doesn’t succeed. Unfortunately, many women set their hearts on a first cycle success, and become discouraged and give up when that doesn’t happen. Mentally prepare yourself with realistic expectations.

Don’t miss any cycles! The biggest reason people fail is not from infertility but from giving up. Prepare yourself mentally. For many people, skipping a cycle is their way to give up without admitting they’re giving up. First they skip one cycle, and then another. Then they never go back. Don’t give up.

According to the Center for Disease Control’s 2012 Assisted Reproductive Technology Report, by age 37 the success rate falls by about 25% versus what it was at 34; by 40, it falls by about 30% versus what it was at 37; by 42 it is only half what it was at 40, and it halves again by 44.

Time is not on your side if you’re a recipient: you should start trying as soon as possible once you decide that this is what you want to do, and especially if you are over age