The DSR

[twomoms2twins]

EEk .. so DW and I do a check in with our sperm bank and the DSR just to see. We saw that some people have signed up for the DSR with our DONOR.  Cool we though no worries,then somehow she was reading more stuff and just so happend she decided to  google our bank and donor number.  I will add that we never had any intentions of meeting or contacting other who share our donor.  However, up her google search she found a couple and they happen to be in another on line group we are in ... HOLY COW... so given everything that is going on with us  we reached out .. it was odd to say the least  lots more to process which was nice for a day we actually had something other that THAT OTHER issue to discuss.   Anyhow, our kids dont look similar and it was obviously a divine intervention sort of .. and The donor is recessive apparently since our kids and theirs dont look similar....

Have any of you met others who used your donor.  Obviously, I have trouble with the half-sibling term ... they certainly are not brother and sisters. 

Also, at Easter while talking with my MIL whom I am not a big fan of right now she made a reference to the Girls "Grandfather" being a Doctor and  I was confused and said whos a Doctor and she said the gilrs Grandfather  ( she was making a reference to the donors father)  whom she called Grandfather and I almost back handed her ... I very sharply said That is NOT their grandfather ( and thought to my self their grand father is a DRUNK ( her husband) and my dad goes by SABA and is in commercial real estate......  but i walked away  ... UGG so mad...

[bluedaisyus]

I've never checked the DSR. When we were trying the first time there weren't any reported pregnancies from our donor so who knows if there are actually any out there, and I haven't really had any desire to check it. I'm not even sure how it works, TBH. Don't you have to pay or something?

[twotrue]

Apr 9, 2013 15:10:28 GMT -5 bluedaisyus said:

I've never checked the DSR. When we were trying the first time there weren't any reported pregnancies from our donor so who knows if there are actually any out there, and I haven't really had any desire to check it. I'm not even sure how it works, TBH. Don't you have to pay or something?

No, it's a free thing.  You can post if you want or not...or just go lurk.

[rikkiandjulie]

Fascinating. I would never guess to do this.

[bluedaisyus]

Apr 9, 2013 15:50:12 GMT -5 twotrue said:

Apr 9, 2013 15:10:28 GMT -5 bluedaisyus said:

I've never checked the DSR. When we were trying the first time there weren't any reported pregnancies from our donor so who knows if there are actually any out there, and I haven't really had any desire to check it. I'm not even sure how it works, TBH. Don't you have to pay or something?

No, it's a free thing.  You can post if you want or not...or just go lurk.

Oh interesting, I didn't realize that. I just went and checked, there's nothing for our donor.

[2brides]

I just looked. 60 offspring. Ugh.

[cymru]

What can you access for free? They keep asking me for a $75 membership fee.

[bluedaisyus]

Apr 10, 2013 11:18:10 GMT -5 cymru said:

What can you access for free? They keep asking me for a $75 membership fee.

You can click on "search the registry" or "browse by clinic" from the main page and enter your search criteria. It looks like you only have to join if you want to add a posting or contact someone. So, you're basically just seeing if anyone who used your donor was willing to pony up $75 to post about it.

[twomoms2twins]

Apr 9, 2013 15:10:28 GMT -5 bluedaisyus said:

I've never checked the DSR. When we were trying the first time there weren't any reported pregnancies from our donor so who knows if there are actually any out there, and I haven't really had any desire to check it. I'm not even sure how it works, TBH. Don't you have to pay or something?

You can look but can not post or contact anyone unless you pay and its 75$ from what i understood. 

[cymru]

CCB had a free registry for a while, but then they changed it so you had to pay.

I know there were 10 babies on that one for a while ( Annie was 11, but they had retired him right after we banked our vials). And I know they had vial for siblings still in stock so maybe there are a couple more by now.

There looks like there is only one post about her donor on the actual DSR