If you’re considering using a sperm bank as part of your family planning journey, there are some terms you may feel you want to know. Getting started down this path can feel overwhelming at first, but with a little knowledge, you’ll start to feel more comfortable. Here’s a look at some of the most common terms and what they are referring to.
When a man donates sperm to a sperm bank, he is referred to as a donor. This is someone who made the choice to volunteer his sperm, either to have it entered into a catalog for a recipient to consider purchasing, or to donate it to medical research. Here at Cascade Cryobank, all the information you’ll need to know about our sperm donors can be found in the catalog. Visit this page to find a donor.
Cascade Cryobank developed this program and it is the first of its kind in the industry. Donors choose to opt in to this program or not when they are donating sperm. It allows the recipient to obtain the donor’s identity once a live birth is confirmed, even before the children turn eighteen. There’s no need to wait – the information can be released once the live birth occurs.
Information that recipients can receive in crude the donor’s name, donor’s date of birth, and are entitled to at least one moderated meeting between the donor and the recipient. Any further contact would then be agreed upon by both parties.
When a man begins donating sperm, he can choose to have his information revealed to the donor-conceived children when they turn eighteen. The donor-conceived children can then request the information or they could choose not to have it revealed to them. The donor needs to opt into this program in order for the recipient to be part of it.
There is another type of donor to watch out for – and that’s an anonymous one. Note that here at Cascade Cryobank, we don’t accept donors who wish to be anonymous. Our donors are required to at last be part of the Open ID program. However, we don’t require that donors opt into the Early Disclosure program.
This refers to the method we use to preserve and freeze the donor sperm at very low temperatures for future use. Sperm that has been preserved this way can remain viable for many years. However, once the sperm is taken out of this preservation state, we do test it to make sure it’s still viable.
This is a word that we use to describe sperm’s ability to move freely. If it has good motility, that means it’s optimal for fertility. We test sperm for its motility because we know that it increases the sperm’s chances of being effective.
If you are interested in purchasing donor sperm, you’ll want to look at each donor profile to find the right one. Our donor catalog is filled with individual donor profiles, where we give you as much detail as possible so that you can make your choice. View our donor profile here.
These terms are amongst the most important because they will help you gain clarity as you navigate your fertility and family planning journey.
Cascade Cryobank, located in Lynnwood Washington, helps you grow your family with quality donor sperm derived from a selective screening process.
