Please feel free to express your concerns to her. Since consent forms must be signed by both husband and wife, we request that your husband come with you for this visit. He is certainly welcome at all insemination appointments as well. Soon after we have obtained the results of your screening tests and physical characteristics and blood types of both you and your husband, we will help you identify the best possible donor or donors available from our participating banks. Presently Duke has approved 2 commercial sperm banks for our patients' use, Reproductive Resources and Cryogenics Laboratories .
More information is available about the latter on their web page.
We also will have information available to you in the clinic for these sperm banks. We will then ask you to contact the bank of your chosen donor and arrange to have the specimens sent to our laboratory for storage until you are ready for an insemination. There will be a clinic charge for the insemination procedure at each insemination visit and an annual storage fee for the sperm samples. Since shipping is costly, we recommend that more than 1 sample is shipped at a time. We recommend using only anonymous donor sperm.