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High Tech Babies: Artificial Insemination
Can Artificial Insemination Help You Conceive?
By Kendeyl Johansen
It's also important to talk with your partner and decide how many AI cycles you're willing to try. Herbert recommends three to six cycles for most of his patients. Belinda Taylor became pregnant during her second cycle but miscarried the baby. She tried one more cycle and successfully carried her son to term.
Herman conceived during her first cycle and nine months later was gleefully hugging her daughter. "Holding her was unbelievable. We tried for so long, not as long as other couples we know, but it seemed like an eternity to us," she says.
If AI isn't successful you might want to try in vitro fertilization (IVF). "IVF therapy circumvents many of the factors which can interfere with success in AI cycles such as decreased tubal motility or tubal transport of the egg/embryo as well as providing a method to insure fertilization when abnormal sperm are the major problem," Herbert says.
Kathy Anderson, of Park City, Utah, became pregnant with IVF after eight failed AI cycles. "Going through artificial insemination and in vitro was tough but holding my twin boys in my arms is heaven," she says.
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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.