My frozen sperm donation, my choice

Louise Bridge keeps her only chance of a child stored frozen in a London sperm bank. But will she ever use it? She can’t decide and time is running out

Somewhere, in an isolated room in a London hospital, is a small, frozen container, stored within a nitrogen tank, which has my name on it. Whether my name appears in a literal sense is debatable. I have never seen it. Its hold over me, however, is personal and continuous. It contains the frozen sperm of an anonymous donor of my choice.

In autumn 2012, I began in earnest to consider becoming a single mother.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1z39eLE