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Don't assume that because you're young and healthy that it'll only take a few cycles for you to get pregnant. You never know what will happen, so I don't want you to set yourself up for an easy insemination only for disappointment to set in. Because we don't have sperm available to us whenever we want, the timing of it all is very crucial. You could miss your ovulation days by one day on either end of the spectrum, so my recommendation is to start tracking your basal body temperature. Get a basal body thermometer to the hundredth degree (you could have mine as I don't need to use it) and every morning before you even move a muscle, take your temperature and right it on a chart. Once you see a spike in your temperature, this is a good indicator that you're ovulating. I would check out the book Taking Control of your Fertility. It's a comprehensive book that describes in detail how you can naturally and effectively track when your ovulating, how your uterus changes position through the month, your vaginal fluid, etc. Use the charts they describe in the book, they're really good. I got the book from the library, so don't feel like you need to purchase it.

I'm pretty sure we'll spend the extra money to get additional information on the donor. It depends on what you want as to what level you're willing to spend at, but my wife and I are most interested in education level and family medical history.

I know it's a little ways down the road, but you might want to consider storing some of the donor sperm you get pregnant with for future children. This way your future child could have a blood sibling. It's not important to my wife and I, but it might be something you want to do.

I started my journey in January and I still feel helpless sometimes. The timing of ovulation is what is tripping me up. The sperm is just so expensive that I can't afford to miss my ovulation window. I guess that's why we have doctors to tell us when we need to be injected.

P.S. It's not necessary to get a basal body thermometer to the hundredth (.00) degree, but it was recommended to me as my PCOS doesn't allow me to have a normal body temperature. It was really hard to find a more precise thermometer (I found mine 1800 miles away in Michigan!) so if you want something like this, PM me and I am more than willing to sterilize and send you mine. My fertility doctor told me to stop tracking, it wasn't giving me good ovulation predictors anyways.