Hi Sue -

Thanks for the info about the donors, I will email monash to find out more about what the sitution is. I bought a book call "Your essential infertility companion". It's a british book, but it's quite good. It has a lot of the medical stuff as well as the dicussions about emotions and ethics. It's kind of amazing how much I didn't know about the human reproductive systems.

I guess one of the main problems for single and lesbian women at the moment is the lack of donors and that clinics like Sydney IVF are not offering anonymous donor insemination. If more clinics go in that direction it's going to be a tough call to start asking friends or family if they wouldn't mind acting as a sperm donor.

IVF NSW is based in Bondi Junction. They don't seem to have a website. But I am wondering if they have an association with IVF Australia. Did you say that Monash IVF had a branch in Newcastle because I had a quick look and I couldn't see any offices in NSW.

How's the 2WW going?

Mel, Trish, Racheal, Blue - Thankyou all so much for your beautiful words, it means a lot.