Insemination for gay couples

LGBTQ+ Fertility

Fertility Options for Same-Sex Couples

Once the testing has been completed, your fertility team will work with you to expand the most appropriate treatment regimen for you and your goals. Potential treatments for same-sex couples include:

Sperm donation
Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
In vitro fertilization (IVF)
Egg Donation
Surrogacy

It is vital to discuss your family planning goals with your physician, so they can help determine the best way to achieve those goals. Here are some questions to discuss with your partner about family planning:

Is it significant to use a family member as a sperm or egg donor?
Do you prefer to utilize an anonymous donor instead?
Does one female partner want to contribute the egg, while the other wants to carry the pregnancy?

Taking some time to think about these issues before your appointment can help you clarify what is important to you.

Once you decide on the best course of treatment for you, it is important to stay in communication with your fertility nurse and treatment planning team. Additional

Fertility Options for Gay Couples

This is the main way for two gay men to have a biologically related child. Male sperm is usually combined with an egg from a donor noun who isn’t the surrogate carrying the baby. Although one lady can perform the role of surrogate and egg donor, this situation is generally avoided so that the child doesn’t distribute half of its genetic material with the surrogate.

In the case of two gay men, assuming donar sperm is not going to be used, then only one of the gay couple will actually be the hereditary father. It is important to consider the implications and psychological consequences of this. For this reason counselling is a nice idea and is usually offered to couples by any clinic or agency organising surrogacy.

Many surrogates are friends or family of the gay couple, although surrogate agencies can also help. Prospective parents should be aware that in the UK, they cannot advertise for a surrogate or pay a surrogate except to cover reasonable expenses.

Surrogacy can also be a route to parenthood for lesbians, particularly if they have a medical

Family Building for LGBTQ Moms to Be

Artificial Insemination

Artificial insemination is a process in which sperm is placed into a women's reproductive tract using means other than sexual intercourse. For many single moms-to-be or couples where only one partner chooses to biologically participate in the pregnancy, insemination is a logical first step to parenthood.

Insemination involves placing sperm into the uterus (intrauterine insemination, or IUI) or the cervix (intra-cervical insemination, or ICI). For this process, frozen sperm is usually shipped to your physician, and is thawed the day of insemination.

In order to begin artificial insemination, see your primary care physician or fertility doctor. Make sure you're up-to-date on all healthcare maintenance, including Pap smear and mammogram. It is also important to track your cycle each month, as cycle tracking is how insemination is timed.

Your sperm donor options include a known, open door, or anonymous donor. Ask your fertility clinic or OB-GYN for any recommendations that they may own to help guide you through

Ways to become a parent if you're LGBT+

There are several ways you could become a parent if getting pregnant by having sex is not an option for you.

Possible ways to become a parent include:

donor insemination
IUI (intrauterine insemination)
surrogacy
adoption or fostering
co-parenting

There are also several ways that could help people with fertility problems have a baby, including IVF (in vitro fertilisation).

IUI and IVF can sometimes be done on the NHS. This depends on things like your age. Check with a GP or local integrated care board (ICB) to find out about what might be available to you.

Surrogacy is not available on the NHS.

All these options can be explored by anyone, including single people and same sex couples.

Donor insemination

Sperm is put inside the person getting pregnant. This can be done at home, with sperm from a licensed fertility clinic, a sperm bank or someone you know.

If you decide donor insemination, it’s better to go to a licensed fertility clinic where the sperm is checked for infections and some inherited conditions. Fertility cli