next year, are you going to apply for more information? yeah, 100%. and what are you hoping for to come out of that? just to meet him, really. oh, you want to meet him? yeah. shaun: they both want to know. yeah. you know, we ve goti two amazing children. you know, our lives- are different as a result of that person s kindness. so it will be nice to shake him i by the hand and say thank you. my name s mel and i m a solo parent. i used ivf with donor sperm to conceive my daughter. she s now five. my wife and i have been. together 16 years, and over the past 12 we have created our family through donor conception. i chose the sperm donor that i used to conceive my daughter partly because he said he would be open to contact in the future. it was incredibly important i for us that we found a donor who was happy for the children to reach out when they came . of age, because we felt - it was an incredibly important part, that it was theirjourney too, and their decision - if they wish to reach
look through information on the donors to decide which characteristics they want their babies to have. hi, i m vicky. i m lucy. and we had a baby two years ago through donor. ..er. ..sperm. hello, i m sean greenaway. i m a male fertility coach and i m also the father. to twins that were conceived by the use of donor sperm. i what was quite important criteria for us was that the donor was going to be brown hair, blue eyes. ..like lucy. we chose that person - that we didn t know anything about because it was like a blank canvas. i we didn t want to be expecting anything of our children. - people using donor conception are helped by fertility doctors like eddie. there has been a definite movement in the demographics of people who are coming forward.
yeah, i do feel really privileged. yeah. especially someone who s gone through it as well. this is where we store all our eggs, sperm and embryos. whoa. ok, so these are racks of samples. so that square is one.? so, that square will have maybe 100 vials with donor sperm in it. of one person s.? of one person. it is amazing. it is, yeah. and it s mad seeing this. yes. like, i was in one of them. laughter just for a little bit. i know. just for a little while, yeah. yeah. seeing it all, it is a lot more reassuring. just not as clinical as you think it is. yeah. it is to a certain extent, but you know that you re being handled by real people and we have an emotion about what we re doing as well. yeah, itjust makes