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"Lilly" (Alias) in her 30s, joined Sperm Donation Australia in late December 2017, In January 2018 she conceived a child, except her donor was already sourced from a dating app. Her child is now 5 years old and everything was fine up until recently when the donor started displaying mental health issues, and threats were made in regards to wanting to access the child.
This was a difficult and deep podcast to be a part of, as I wanted to explore the story and look for potential warning signs, so future members could potentially identify if there are red flags to look out for, without "Lilly" feeling like it was an attack on her level of judgement. While this could happen to absolutely anyone men, who have no part in the donor community and who have no donor etiquette or other donor children to share a focus on, seem to have the higher risk. In this episode, we explore the scenarios, look into mental health and hope for a positive outcome for her from this situation.
For more information about this episode visit
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-78/
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Anika Philipp 39, from Berlin, Germany just went on a wild adventure on 90 Day Fiance season 4 Love in Paradise. In which she was paired up with notorious sperm donor Kyle Gordy. Now a resident of Malta in this episode she shares with us her journey and how she came across the idea of using a sperm donor before pairing up for a potential relationship with him.
During the season we had so much to dissect, left with so many questions unanswered and Ani took the time to tell us her thoughts scene by scene and how everything played out. So tune in and join us as we reminisce about the memorable scenes of Kyle playing with his penis and their first dinner date together.For information about this episode visit https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-77/
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Genevieve Uys (South Africa) first became an Egg Donor at the age of 21, she walked away from the experience conflicted, and with that experience, she created her agency Traveling Donors, which she turned all those negatives she had experienced around to being a more fulfilling accommodating experience. Vieve is pro-advocate for known donation and has egg donor profiles available that can be selected. Join us with a couple of wines and hear us discuss how egg donation is done in various countries, where Australia may be lacking and current clinics' attitudes. I discuss women donating their eggs from a young age and storing some for themselves while donating others. We talk about what it takes to become an egg donor, what it is like and the expectations such as lifestyle and diet. Plus so much more.To find out more information about this episode please visit. https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-76/
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Dr Leah Gilman of Sheffield University is a sociologist working at the intersection of the sociology of personal life, reproduction and digital sociology. She has spent over a decade researching donor conception and exploring how people negotiate family and reproductive relationships in the context of social, legal and technological change. She has contributed to several journals and articles and even written a book along the way, today she is here to share a bit of insight into her current project.Predominantly the majority of Leah's focus is the UK, however, in this episode, we explore and chat about the differences in the law between the UK and Australia, and why the UK's current laws might be more of a hindrance than actually achieving anything beneficial. We chat about the British media and the clinic's current attitudes towards online donation. We analyse the different types of donor clinics, online and those that do both.
For more information about this episode and links to contact Leah head to:
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-75/
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Michael Rixon 29, from Victoria, was featured in a Herald Sun article representing the Sperm Donation Australia community, his contribution can be seen as a way of giving back to the community that has brought him so much joy in an altruistic sense. It was 3 years ago that Michael came across a story in the Age, he read that inspired him to go down the pathway of becoming a donor himself, he has currently successfully helped 7 families and wants to share some of the magic he has gotten from the experience thus far.
Michael represents a growing trend in our society of men wanting to achieve career dreams of rising the corporate ladder. With that comes the sacrifice of having his own family, which makes logical sense of preferring to help others with more current dedication towards parenthood. He shares with us, his setup and some of the relationships and friendships he has established from being a donor.
For more information about this episode visit:
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-74/â
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Sylvia, 35, from Brisbane, Queensland was married for 13 years, spent the early years laying the foundations building a house together and travelling before starting a family. Entering their 30s it was time to start this chapter and they had a baby boy however relationship-wise, it didn't go to plan the stresses of it all the lack of understanding and the inability to navigate through it successfully spelled doom for their relationship with her ex then moving out, even marriage counselling to salvage their relationship failed.
Sylvia was an only child from a small family she always knew that her family would be incomplete with one child. She even asked her ex if he could be a donor for a sibling, which he declined. The only option was to use a donor due to the complications and duress with her ex, she didn't elect to pick a known donor because of the fear of further complications. She shares her brave journey and doing what it takes to add to her family unit and move on from a long-term relationship.
For more information about this website visit https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-73/
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Jenele Riley 33, from the North Western Suburbs of Victoria embarked on the known donor route with her partner and she gave birth to her daughter in December 2020. It was a first-cycle success via Ai, right on the cusps of the COVID lockdowns which shut down the country and made her pregnancy journey support-wise a bit more challenging, with the restriction side of things.
Later in September 2023, she gave birth to a baby boy, however, due to her donor having a negative experience with other recipients and combined with a busy stage of his life he was no longer available to provide a sibling, which led to them back to the drawing board. Having strong family values and after exploring how donor-conceived adults feel it was important for them to find another open and transparent donor. She shares their story on how all this works, as well as some tips on how they conceived first, time both times.
To find more information about this episode please visit
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-72/
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The decision was made to board a plane and head out west to Perth to try for a baby, which resulted in a first-cycle success. With roughly 6 weeks to go before the due date Pia shares of her pregnancy journey that included brutal morning sickness not to mention a gender reveal that went horribly wrong and left her in the hospital for a couple of days.
To find out more about this episode please visit https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-71-from-melbourne-to-perth-to-have-a-baby/
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Kenn Israel who lives between Uzbekistan and California has over 3 decades of experience in dietary supplements, functional food, and natural products. He is the founder and manager of Innovation Nutrition Consulting LLC, in other words, he is the full bottle when it comes to the importance of understanding this innovative field of expertise and I tracked him down to share his words of wisdom to our community.
We speak about a large number of fertile vitamins and supplements on the market, we explore options for those experiencing Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome and what they can take to restore balance. What Vitamins do you have to stop taking once pregnant that could become harmful? How Do you identify and pick the best prenatal vitamin? What's the difference between folic acid vs folate? What are other key active forms ingredients that actually make a prenatal effective? All this and more a must listen to those who are serious about their fertility and the baby's health.
For more information about this episode and to source all of the vitamins and supplements mentioned on this podcast please visit.
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-70-fertility-vitamins-and-supplements/
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Wendy Kramer is the Co-Founder of the Donor Sibling Registry which was formed in 2000 because there was a gap in the market that was starting to emerge and curious people were seeking answers or seeking connections. She was that parent back in a time when doctors told their patients to lie about their child's origin to go against the grain. Transparency was key in her mind and her son Ryan first asked about his origin at the age of 2 which set the ball rolling on how she was going to prepare for this road ahead.
Over the past 2 decades, Wendy has dedicated her life to donor-conceived people, she shares her stories and the studies that have taken place within her 89,000 community, and she continues to produce educational resources in a working week that consists of 70 hours plus. In this episode, she shares her vast array of knowledge and shares her thoughts on where the sperm banks are failing us.
For more information about Wendy Kramer and the Donor Sibling Registry visit this episode's link.
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-69-the-donor-sibling-registry/
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Stef Kozaczuak mother of 4, the former Californian, now living on the East Coast found out she was donor-conceived via a 23 and me test at the age of 32. It was a test her partner bought for her to take during a Black Friday sale which was to lead to many more Black Fridays ahead, as her DNA was holding secrets that only her parents knew about previously and that they still remain in denial about relinquishing.
Peter the father who raised her was also a part of an Evangelical Church as a minister, where many forms of abuse were carried out during her childhood years, making her story come from a very dark place. She has triumphed like the true Queen she is and now has become an advocate for the donor-conceived.
For more information on Stef and this episode please visit
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-68-donor-conceived-queen/
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Ties Van Der Meer 44, is the chairman of the Donorkind Foundation in the Netherlands. His story is unique in the fact that not only is he donor conceived himself, but he also followed in his donor's footsteps and became a sperm donor. He shares his upbringing dynamic that involved his mother separating from her partner at just 3 years old and being raised with an adopted brother from Columbia, it becomes a tale of searching for family.
He shares that he is aware of 18 donor children from his contributions to the clinic and how he wishes not to have any more children, even though his wife may wish to have children one day, and what might be alternative options for her.
In recent times the Netherlands has had its biggest civil court case involving Dutch sperm donor Jonathan Meijer who fathered hundreds of children and the Donorkind Foundation found itself at the forefront of all this. We look at the court outcomes and discuss this story in the lead-up to the Netflix release.
For more information about this episode visit.
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-67-donorkind/
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Pete O'Irish from Ohio was your typical American donor-next-door kind of guy. A Grad school student looking for that extra income to score himself some pizza and beer. This very cliche story of coming across a sperm donor advert in a student flyer that lures men in with the promise of anonymity and a 10-family limit was and still is an attractive proposition as a fair trade-off to enhance the quality of life during these tough studying years.\
Everything was going to script until Pete read an article around 2005 predicting anonymity to be dead with new technologies of DNA testing coming through. Lo and behold his father signed up to Ancestry and was tracked down, with the threat of the cat being released out of the bag, Pete spilled his most well-kept secret to his wife that was none the wiser, and from there his thought process evolved, to where he has now become a part of some of these donor-conceived peoples lives to date he has 18 children accounted for and he explains navigating those relationships as everyone has different expectations from each other.
For more information about this episode visit this episode's dedicated page.
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-66-the-well-adapted-90s-clinic-donor/
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Strap yourself in for a 4-hour marathon with Michelle Carlon 32, from New South Wales she has a lot to say and a story to tell that will keep you entertained throughout. To begin we looking into Genetic testing at the clinics and how they're not giving customers copies of their results and therefore not telling them what gene mutations they may have. We then move on to Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and the dangers that these clinical drugs can impose on women.The second half of this episode gets deeply personal, Michelle shares her story of a failed relationship after the tremendous IVF toll, and the unexpected pregnancy of her child to a new partner, that relationship didn't last and she is now trying to negotiate to have a 2nd child with her fiance who is very skeptical after everything she has already been through and would hate to lose her through her pregnancy risks. We delve into her pregnancy journey where she was told the terminate her child at 23 weeks and then at 30 weeks another unexpected huge curve ball is thrown at her, where she had to hold on from giving birth or risk losing her child, everything that could have gone wrong during this pregnancy did so. After going through that intense story we finish our conversation chatting about egg donation.
To find out more about this episode and information on Michelle please go to the podcast information page for this episode: https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-65-elevit-your-game-talking-mthfr-gene/
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Aayize Diaz 30, based in Miami Florida is a gay talented rapper who came onto the American donor scene a number of years ago, yet due to poor lifestyle habits and fondness for Mary Jane, it took him 3 years to achieve his first pregnancy. He decided to tone down his consumption of weed and got 4 quick pregnancies he is now on his way to helping contribute to 11 lives born from his contribution. At the start, he was carelessly throwing his seed around to any takers as he has become more educated and has learned to refine his donating to people who live locally and that are willing to give him some limited involvement with the children.
Aayize shares some fascinating stories of smoking weed with his recipients before the point of insemination, unusual places he has donated, and his first-ever sexual encounter with a woman being a 3some while trying to create a baby. We debate whether gay sperm is more popular than anti-vax sperm plus much more.For more information on this episode and where to contact Aayize visit: https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-64-let-it-come/
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David Starlyte lives a nomadic lifestyle that currently has him residing in Port Douglas in Far North Queensland. Many would view him as a shaman healer, that focuses on coaching in the arts of soul mentoring and non-duality consciousness healing, he takes me on a spiritual journey in the episode and enlightens me with his views on life, and dissecting our instinctive nature and situations he has been confronted with thus far in his donor pathway to date.
David has also had some clinical experience donating to a lady in Israel and then in around 2016 while he was living in Perth, he visited two separate fertility clinics in the state and donated enough sperm to potentially help 5 families at each clinic, we are led to believe in Australia there are strict monitoring systems in place, yet when we dissect this real-life event, we realize itâs all sugarcoating, and businesses will run as businesses are set up to do and thatâs for profit.
For more information about this episode or to contact David visit:
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-63-the-spiritual-messiah/
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Shane Wagner the Melbourne Native has donated to a handful of families in Victoria, he is currently relocating to Darwin where there is currently a donor shortage. Despite some interesting negative experiences he faced so far in his donor journey, he describes his overall experience to date right up there with some of his life's most memorable moments, and that if he was to have done this at the clinic it could not possibly come close in levels of fulfillment.
Scott explored the clinic option before turning his back on it, he looked at the $50 compensation offered for a donation as a bit of a joke. Being a single man he shares his encounters with a single woman and how one circumstance found him in a relationship that ultimately didn't work out. He shares with us his concerns about privacy and respecting boundaries as well as some interesting stories.
For more information about Scott and this episode visit: â https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-62-cu-in-the-nt/
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Shane Maynard, 35 years old from Western Australia is the hottest donor in town at the moment, and with 6 donor children on the way already within his first 6 months of donating, we may as well hand him the keys to the city now and crown him the new King of Perth. After a friendly conversation with a friend looking for a sperm donor, Shane was pointed in the direction of Sperm Donation Australia, where he first slowly observed the scene and did his own research.
Shane discusses in this episode, artificial insemination (syringes and soft cups), we talk about our recent media on Channel 9 news and the clinic alternative, we look into lube and should taking Super Annuation really be an option. We analyze how many donor children a clinic is allowed as opposed to an online donor, which has a safe system register in place, plus much more.
For more information on this episode visit https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-61-perth-has-a-new-king/
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Greta French-Kennedy from Adelaide, South Australia is the real deal female empowerment health coach, in the age of social media where coaches are popping up left right, and centre, many talk the talk but do they walk the walk? In a time in society where the biological clock ticks fast, in a period where most relationships donât last the test of time, sometimes it takes bravery to forge your own path toward creating your own destiny in starting a family and this is exactly what Greta has done and she is here today to share her story and inspire others.
Greta first explored the option of the clinics, as a person who is health conscious this didnât sit comfortably with her, also the idea of picking an American donor from a sheet of paper hardly sounded appealing, this is when she discovered Sperm Donation Australia and started exploring the known donor option which felt right for her. We discuss all this plus more.
To find out more about this episode and to watch her media and more about her coaching website visit.
https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-60-the-female-empowerment-coach/
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Brooke Withington is a busy mum, whose life turned, even more, busier overnight when her TikTok video went viral sharing her donor conception story. The Gold Coast, mother of 5 chalked up over 750K views and now holds the record worldwide for the most impactful media influential piece for online sperm donation. Currently, 700 women and counting were inspired by her story that theyâre now exploring the donor option.
Brooke describes herself as an independent person that just loves her children and has a passion for baking. After noticing modern-day dating trends and the lack of longevity these days, she elected to go down the donor path, of her children the child conceived via known donor sperm has been the less stressful. She shares with us today much knowledge from her experience of going down this path and the potential of a 6th child to come.
For more information on this episode and to find her Instagram and TikTok visit. https://ivfdonationworld.com/episode-59-just-another-busy-mum/
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