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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Intrauterine insemination is the process where fresh or frozen and thawed sperm is placed in the cervix or in the female’s uterus by artificial means. Timing with IUI is even more crucial than with regular intercourse as with the latter the sperm is slowly released into the cervix due to the glands and mucous acting as a reservoir that sustains the sperm. Since sperm can’t remain viable for a very long period of time IUI demands that is should be injected extremely close to the time of ovulation.

An ovulation predictor kit is one of the methods used for perfectly timing IUI. The kit actually measures the LH surge of a woman which peaks at about 12 to 24 hours before the egg is released. The woman will be required to test her urine in the morning and when the test is positive she should have the intrauterine insemination the very next day.

The other effective method of timing is to artificially trigger your ovulation with medication called hCG. An ultrasound can determine when the developing eggs in the ovaries are mature enough to be released and the woman is ready for the hCG trigger injection. After the ejection the woman is ready for IUI for two mornings later. For more detailed information on IUI or advice on any other infertility treatments contact us at Pregassist.

Surrogacy is a method of reproduction where a woman agrees to get pregnant and thereby deliver a child for a contracted party. There are different versions of surrogacy and we would like to briefly discuss the 5 different types.
1. The term surrogate is derived from the Latin meaning which is ‘appointed to act in the place of’. Therefore a surrogate mother is a woman who gets pregnant with a child with the aim to relinquish the baby after birth.
2. Traditional surrogacy or straight method is when a woman is pregnant with her own biological child with the original intent of giving up the baby to the biological father with his partner or spouse.
3. Gestational surrogacy or host method is when the surrogate becomes pregnant via embryo transfer where she is not the biological mother. The gestational carrier could have either made arrangements to surrender the baby to the biological mother or father to rear or to a parent who is unrelated to the child, in which case the carrier would have achieved pregnancy via egg or sperm donation or due to a donated embryo.
4. Altruistic surrogacy involves a situation where the surrogate doesn’t receive any financial reward for carrying or relinquishing the child, however it is common for the parents who intend on raising the child to financially support the surrogate with medical cost, maternity clothes and other related expenses.
5. Commercial surrogacy is where the gestational carrier gets paid a certain amount of money for carrying a child for an infertile couple that can also afford all the other expenses involved in the pregnancy.

For more information on surrogacy and other infertility solutions feel free to consult the experienced staff from Pregassist.