Originally Posted by
Kris217
Well i do have a new donor, used him this past month and will use him again if he's willing to help. The cost of IUI is roughly the same as IVF after the rebates so i didn't want to go down that path in case it didn't work. The sperm is $950 per vial and you only get one shot with it, but if i did IVF they'd fertilise as many eggs as they could with it and freeze them for subsequent attempts.
I will do IVF if home inseminations don't work. As for what we have done here is the method we've been using-
Track ovulation with opk's and clearblue digital to make sure the timing is right, head to Sydney and pick up the donor to come to our hotel to do his thing. Once he is done he calls us so we come back into the room and my partner drives him home. I use some preseed then suck up the sperm with a 10ml syringe...no needle obviously :P It's very fast so the sperm doesn't have too long to sit around in the cup.
Then lay down with hips propped, put it in as far as it goes then slowly squirt it in. have a big O then lay there as long as i can. When i need to pee i put in an instead cup for a few hours then do the same thing the next day. I do have a vag speculum like dr's use, the first time we used that it pulled all the sperm out with it so i'm scared to use it again.
I thought maybe my partner could find my cervix and squirt a little on it then remove the speculum and inject the rest??