Should you care if Pregnancy Reported=No?

In our opinion: not really

Pregnancy Reported=No means there are no pregnancies reported for this donor. This isn't necessarily good or bad, it just means no pregnancies were reported. There are several factors you may wish to consider in evaluating Pregnancy Reported:

• Many (perhaps even most) women/couples fail to report their pregnancy, so a No doesn't mean this donor has no pregnancies, only none reported. Sperm banks have no way to know if a donor conceives unless the mother/couple tells them.
• Relatively new sperm donors may not have had time to have any reported pregnancies.
• If Pregnancy reported=Yes, it doesn't really tell you much. There may have been only one pregnancy out of 50 attempts, or 50 pregnancies in 50 attempts. Pregnancy Reported doesn't tell you how many pregnancies were reported, only that there's at least one.
• Sperm banks are highly incentivized to sell only fertile sperm. All sperm banks test sperm for viability by measuring such factors as sperm count and motility (See our page Screening Donor Sperm). On each sperm bank's description page, we provide a link to the bank's own description of their testing/screening procedures.

Taking all these factors into consideration, it's our opinion that Pregnancy Reported doesn't tell you much, if anything, about how likely you are to conceive by a particular donor. We think it's more important to select the donor based on other criteria like ethnicity, education or blood type.

That said, many women/couples who experience difficulty conceiving prefer to restrict their search only to donors for whom there is a known pregnancy, which is why many banks report this information. If you prefer to search only donors with a reported pregnancy, you can check the box "List only donors with known pregnancy?" on the donor search page.

At SpermCenter.com, we want to give you the best information we can. What you do with that information is your choice!

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