Artificial Insemination is one of the ways in achieving pregnancy when either one or both of the partners show signs of being infertile. It’s a non surgical procedure meaning it’s due to an insufficiency that can’t be treated by medication or surgery like impotence and sexual dysfunction in men and hyperproclatinemia. There are nine main types of artificial insemination including intra cervical insemination, intrauterine insemination, and Zygote intra-fallopian tube transfer, Gamete intra-fallopian tube transfer, tubal embryo transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection and testicular sperm extraction, assisted hatching and cryopreservation. In each of the following blogs I will be explaining each process is more detail.

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Intracervical insemination (ICI) is one of the least expensive methods of artificial insemination. It’s also one that is the least complicated and can be performed in the comfort of your reproductive specialist’s office. What they do is to take the sperm from your partner and then they insert it into the woman’s cervix, enhancing the chances of the sperm swimming through the uterus and ultimately into the fallopian tube. ICI is most commonly in women who have presented signs of being infertile.

Both partners will be tested and diagnosed before commencing with ICI, just to make sure that there aren’t any other underlying problems in regards to their individual reproductive organs. By monitoring the levels of luteinizing hormones (LH) in the female’s blood, the specialist can easily determine which days you would be most fertile and then know when to go forth with the procedure. On the female’s day of ovulation, the already prepared sperm will be injected within a 24 hour window, and again in 36 hours.

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Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) is the process of injecting formerly prepared and warmed sperm into the woman’s uterus. This is done two to three days before and after ovulation which heightens the chances of fertilization by getting the sperm closer to the matured egg. There are basically two ways in which this process can be approached;

• If a woman is considered to have normal ovulation but still have trouble getting pregnant, the doctor will inject the previously prepared sperm into the woman’s cervix two days before ovulation, and then again after. Your physician can guide you in determining how to know when you are most fertile.
• When a woman has already tried ICI and have shown signs of certain problems in regards to her ovulation processes, the doctor will undoubtedly recommend medical induced ovulation. The medication will assist in producing more mature eggs which will be closely monitored via transvaginal ultrasounds. On the day of ovulation the doctor will then continue to inject the sperm into the female’s cervix.

For more information on intrauterine insemination or other natural methods to first consider please contact us at Pregassist. We have helped countless couples in becoming parents, and would love to help and assist you in making your dream a reality.

Zygote intra-fallopian tube transfer is considered an ART procedure which relies on the precision of your specialist. Once the doctor has determined that the eggs have reached full maturity, the woman will be given local anaesthetics and the eggs will be located by an ultrasound and removed from the ovaries with a needle. The eggs are then taken to a laboratory and will be fertilized with the male’s sperm, in vitro. About 24 hours later each of the fertilized eggs would have formed a ball of cells, known as the zygote which is the developing embryo.

The woman will then undergo minor surgery where the doctor makes a small incision in her stomach and places up to four zygotes into her fallopian tubes. In the event of the procedure proving to be unsuccessful, any extra zygotes will be frozen and kept safe for a second attempt. In 35% of woman successfully becoming pregnant via zygote intra-fallopian tube transfer gives birth to multiples. Not many couples opt for this ART procedure, so to find out more about the various types of artificial insemination contact us at Pregassist.

When IVF has proven to be an unsuccessful method of becoming pregnant, couples often turn to tubal embryo transfer. The procedure involves transferring the cleaved embryos found in the woman’s fallopian tubes. The woman will be taken to hospital and will be placed under general anaesthetics in order to successfully continue with a medical laparoscopy. The matured eggs are then removed and taken to a laboratory where they will be fertilised by the male’s sperm. 48 Hours later the zygotes have been cultivated in the lab and the embryos will then be replaced in the woman’s fallopian tubes.

In some cases where the woman has a fundamental problem with her ovaries or if she has a genetic disease that shouldn’t be passed along to the baby she can opt for using donor eggs. Whichever artificial insemination you might consider, Pregassist has a team of experts who can explain each process in detail and advice you on which way to go. If you’ve been trying to get pregnant for some time, contact us at Pregassist and let us help you.

Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is a procedure specially developed for infertile males. There is a wide variety of infertility treatments presented to infertile males, but this one has been proven to be quite successful. The procedure involves carefully selecting one live and healthy sperm and accurately placing it into the human egg. For this procedure to have proper effect it’s highly recommended that the female partner should take certain fertility drugs that will ultimately stimulate her ovaries making them more susceptible to produce several mature, healthy eggs.

The process is extremely delicate and makes use of medical instruments like inverted microscopes and ultrasounds. A tine hollow needle is used to pick up each sperm individually and then placed into the egg’s outer shell and its membrane. These eggs have a 75-80% chance of successfully becoming fertilized. The subject surrounding intracytoplasmic sperm injection is unbelievably intricate, so for more information on what the procedure includes, feel free to contact us at Pregassist. If you have any questions on fertility, conception and how to get pregnant don’t hesitate to get the answers you yearn for as soon as possible.