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I wanted a suggestion from you all guys, I have given interview of PS and got a call for offer after interview and I denied the offer as I have received an offer from some other company, I denied coz I was not doing offer shopping or piling offers, he tried to convince me and when I didn't get convinced he said to blacklist me from PS. What to do?
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My family member picked the donor that looked the most like her as a child. He also happened to enjoy the same subjects and sports as her.
Now her toddler looks exactly like her, lol as if there wasn’t a donor involved at all.
We used Seattle sperm bank. Also looked at Fairfax and California but felt Seattle was best. Wanted someone who looked like us and we felt was donating for good reasons and was a good person. It’s a lot slimmer pickings than you might think. My best advice is to get genetic testing done first before you get attached to a donor and then realize they 1) have something incompatible with you or 2) have a genetic condition that most clinics don’t test for and would cost thousands more dollars to check to see if you have it.
We also picked someone with a family limit (although it’s $700 extra out of pocket) but that was important to us.
I was just talking about this in a donor conception support group an hour ago! Something important to us was picking someone who seemed kind, optimistic and had a lot of motivation. Listening to audio clips was helpful in picking one as well.
A woman in that group did really thorough evaluations of specific donor banks and I think chose Seattle because of their open policy, live birth limits (and maybe the various Facebook groups) ... I've been really impressed by the depth of her research. (We used Fairfax.)
I'm not sure how I learned of it originally, but there's a Jewish organization that sets up fertility buddies so that people who've gone through it can help out others in the thick of it. That organization runs the support group, and I must have found out about it in a newsletter.