No Sperm found, should be do a Biopsy

[DizzyLizzie]

Also wondering what city you live in?

I have spoken to lots of clinics in Sydney over the past year about their sperm donor programs and discovered that:
- IVF Australia has a good donor program - the wait is about 6 months long and then you get a choice of about 20 donors from Australia and the US.
- Fertility First in Hurstville has a good donor program with about 20+ donors constantly available straight away. Most of their donations were imported from the US at the time we looked.
- Genea does not have an anonymous donor program - they require you to find your own known donor.
- Westmead Fertility also does not have an anonymous donor program - they require you to find your own known donor.

I know that different states across Australia have very different laws about sperm donors that affect availability and waiting times.

I noticed that you mentioned one of the donor websites (Free Donors Worldwide) in one of your posts a while back but I think that it is better to go through a proper sperm bank at a clinic unless you want a known donor (like a member of your partner's family or a friend). Sperm donors in Australia are not allowed to be paid anyway so the fees that you pay for a donor at a clinic only cover the costs of the donor's testing, storage of sperm etc - it wasn't very expensive for us at all in the scale of the whole IVF treatment. Sperm banks in Australia are highly regulated and there are a lot of laws in place to protect everybody involved. The donors are tested thoroughly for diseases, the sperm is quarantined for 4 months, then the donor is re-tested to make sure no new diseases have shown up. The donors also provide a lot of info about themselves and medical history of their family. Also, on-the-books donors can only donate to four different women in their lifetime (in NSW - this varies between states) to avoid a situation like in the US where some men end up with hundreds of donor offspring. There are no controls like this on the donors who just advertise themselves to provide sperm and I think it could potentially be a little risky.

Hope this helps a little. Feel free to ask me any questions because I think we are one step ahead of where you guys are at the moment.

Thinking of you! xx