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High Tech Babies: Artificial Insemination
Can Artificial Insemination Help You Conceive?
By Kendeyl Johansen
Belinda Taylor, of West Jordan, Utah, wanted a baby to love. But her husband, Ken, had undergone a vasectomy, a surgical operation that causes sterility, years before their marriage. Ken had his vasectomy reversed but the couple still couldn't conceive, so they decided to give nature a boost and try artificial insemination.
"This procedure was a very rewarding process for us since we now have our son. It was a wonderful feeling when William was born and I was able to hold him and count his fingers and toes," Taylor says.
Artificial Insemination (AI), is a reproductive technology in which sperm is prepared, concentrated and placed directly in the uterus, the cervical canal, the ovarian follicle or the fallopian tube. Couples turn to AI after they are diagnosed with infertility (failure to conceive after one year of unprotected intercourse) and they have unsuccessfully tried other fertility treatments. Single women using donor sperm also utilize AI.
Your physician can determine whether AI is right for you. This procedure isn't recommended if pregnancy is contraindicated or in cases of severe pelvic adhesions, damaged or blocked fallopian tubes or very abnormal sperm. Additionally, infertility combined with advanced maternal age sometimes prompts more aggressive infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization (a reproductive technology in which an egg is removed from a woman and joined with a sperm in a test tube).
Couples begin their AI treatment with a detailed medical history and testing. For women, this includes x-ray studies of the uterine cavity and fallopian tubes, and men undergo a semen analysis to document adequate quality and number of sperm. After testing, women may decide to take medications to stimulate egg production. This comes with the knowledge that these medications increase the chances of multiple pregnancy.
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Re: High Tech Babies: Artificial Insemination by G on 06/23/2009 01:14PM
Single parenthood is bad for society. Children have a right to be raised in two-parent households. How is a son supposed to learn to treat a woman if he has no example from an absent father? How is a daughter supposed to learn what its like to be treated properly by a man if she has no father? The desire to have a child does not produce a right to have a child. A child is a gift, conceived in love, not made to order by someone longing to have one. Don't put the cart before the horse.
Re: High Tech Babies: Artificial Insemination by anonymous on 04/15/2009 12:00PM
Hello, Thanks for sharing your article with us, but this is great for couples. What about single female parents who'd rather just have a child by themselves than be in a relationship?
Re: High Tech Babies: Artificial Insemination by anonymous on 03/03/2009 03:15PM
This was very informative. As a single woman contemplating AI, this was great to read.
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High Tech Babies: Artificial Insemination by Anonymous on 07/19/2009 09:54PM
I believe children learn from everyone thay come in contact with. Both girls and boys can do well and learn how to treat and be treated by people other then their parents. People that go to great lengths to have a child as s single parent are most likely going to be amazing parents and role models. They may be a parent single then some parents are as couples. Saying that "single parerthood is bad for society" is very ignorant and that is bad for society. Blessing to all those single parents and wanna be single parents making their dreams come true.