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Discovery Health has a new documentary featuring a lesbian family! Its called “Quads with 2 Moms” and features a lesbian couple from California who each get pregnant with twins at the same time. The babies are full blood siblings, since they share the same sperm donor and all come from eggs from one [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2008 under LGBT family, alternative insemination, movies.
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Yesterday I did my first round of inseminations. All things considered, they went pretty well. Some friends had really hilarious stories about their first times, but mine went off pretty smoothly … except for the dogs.
For the uninitiated, the sperm comes in a small vile stored in a large tank of liquid nitrogen. [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2008 under Cassie, TTC, TTC misadventures, alternative insemination, insemination attempts, sperm.
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The little swimmers arrived first thing this morning. Wonder Dog was *very* interested in the box and followed me through the house as I carried it, trying to get in a good sniff.
Thanks to some excellent and much-needed advice from a couple of good friends, I now know how to safely remove them and [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2008 under alternative insemination, sperm.
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