Artificial insemination is a fertility procedure. It is invented for people who have issues with conceiving. Single parent also choose this procedure to get a baby. The fertility specialist implants the male partner’s (or donor’s) prepared sperm specimen through the cervix and into the cavity of the uterus, shortly before ovulation.
Artificial Insemination With Sperm Donor
Married women may use the donated sperm. If your husband has male factor infertility, artificial insemination with sperm donor is a great option. A single woman may pick artificial insemination by the donor to have a baby.
Artificial insemination using donor sperm may also be a viable solution to patients who are unable to afford more advanced expensive treatments. This is also an option for couples whose male partner suffers some genetic issues that could be passed on to the embryo.
Criteria For Artificial Insemination
Artificial Insemination may be an option for you if you are suffering from fertility problems. Men’s fertility problems like low sperm count or if your sperm isn’t strong enough to swim through the cervix and up into the Fallopian tubes. Women fertility problems like endometriosis or something abnormal in reproductive organs.
Artificial Insemination may be right for you if you suffer from “unreceptive cervical mucus.” It means the mucus that envelopes the cervix doesn’t let sperm from entering into your uterus and Fallopian tubes. Artificial insemination allows the sperm to escape the cervical mucus completely. Moreover, if you can’t have vaginal sex due to the physical disability or psychosexual problem, AI is the best choice.
Infertility Symptoms
Women’s Infertility Symptoms
If you have changes in menstrual cycle or ovulation. This is a symptom of a disease related to infertility. Other symptoms like Abnormal periods (heavier or lighter), Irregular periods, No periods (have no period or periods suddenly stop), painful periods. Female infertility can be due to a hormone problem. It leads to issues such as skin changes, low sex drive, and mood swings. Some women may also experience dark hair growth on the lips, chest & chin, hair loss or thinning hair. Another symptom of infertility is weight gain problem.
Men Infertility Symptoms
Men Infertility symptoms are unknown or unnoticed until a man tries for a baby. Symptoms also depend on the cause of infertility. Hair growth or sexual desire changes, lump or testicles swelling or Pain, erections and ejaculation problems, small or big testicles.
Why is Artificial Insemination helpful?
Artificial insemination is advantageous for couples or individuals in various circumstances such as:
- The male does not have enough sperm for a successful fertilization.
- The man is impotent (erectile dysfunction). Therefore, is unable to perform sexual intercourse.
- A woman wants to have a child as a single parent. In such case, she would take help from a sperm donor for being artificially fertilized.
- When the doctor can’t find a cause for infertility. IUI might benefit a couple that cannot conceive even if reason for infertility is unknown.
- A couple of same-sex (two women) who wants to raise a child together would get sperm from a donor. One among the two women would receive via artificial insemination.
- A man could become infertile as consequences of a medical treatment. Several treatments have the risk of infertility, e.g. radiotherapy. Before the procedure, the person could freeze some of his sperm.
- The female might have the seminal fluid allergic reaction. Up to 12% of women suffer from such condition. Due to certain proteins in the sperm, the woman may suffer an allergic reaction when the sperm makes contact. IUI is helpful in such cases.
- Infertile due to cervical component infertility. The cervix should create a bodily fluid that helps sperm commute to the womb. With cervical component infertility, the cervix is not producing enough of this fluid, or it is producing a fluid that contains sperm-killing substances.
- The woman who suffers from Endometriosis. It is a disorder in which the tissues that form the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterine cavity. Over the time, the tissue that broke down had nowhere to go and get trapped in your pelvis. One of the results of this condition is infertility. It is helpful in such cases too.
Cost
The cost of treatment for one cycle varies from $300 to $1000 depending on other factors and one geographic area to another. Egg donor and sperm donor charges will be additional to this cost.