California Cryobank

Fussy.

I went with the California cryobank, so the choices were bigger.

There was a lot of choices for me, which I found great.

And, yeah, I didn't want someone that looked like me.

There are about five that I work with.

Okay, so Simplify at Pacific Northwest, Fairfax Egg Bank, The World Egg Bank, Cryos, The World Egg, Simplify, and California Cryo Bank.

There may be more out there, but those are the five that I've all had extremely healthy pregnancies with and great outcomes.

they are very transparent with me you know when i ask them questions they'll answer back and the most important thing is success is success and healthy pregnancies and happy patients and i've been very happy with working with them and of the five several of them do embryo creation and we'll talk a little bit more more about that process and what that means in a second If a patient doesn't like an egg bank donor or she wants to actually search both, what I do is I help them with photo matching.

At the time, there were a lot of like shout out accounts.

and that just got posted a bunch of times and because of that one of the marketing people from california cryobank reached out and asked if we ever wanted to work with them and be influencers for them and at the time we had just started talking on instagram about our family building journey so it helped us get the information that we could start the process i think had we not done that it would have taken us a little longer to figure it out But because we went in that process, it was a really fun way to, I guess, like dive into learning about how two women build a family.

Right.

Yeah.

And I know my biological father's donor number.

So I'd probably ask them, hey, do you know his number? Or I'd be like, hey, did your parents go through California Cryobank, where me and my half-siblings, all parents went through? But I wouldn't necessarily do a DNA test because there's a lot of ways to find out before you have to get to that point.

Every donor gets a number?

Yeah.