Alternative to sperm donation

Jan 15, Fertility. Prospective parents at risk of passing inherited conditions to their children have a few options when it comes to family planning, including having a child without medical intervention, adopting a child or choosing not to have children at all. For individuals and couples who want the experience of being pregnant while reducing the genetic risk to their offspring, they can elect to have preimplantation genetic testing PGT or use a sperm or egg donor. Choosing to use donor gametes — either sperm or eggs — is very common among couples struggling with infertility.

Our Alternative Insemination AI Program provides office inseminations days a year with frozen donor sperm. We also teach home insemination methods using frozen or fresh sperm. Our program serves those who are under fertile and 43 years old or younger. We can even work with people who live out of town or state. We have working relationships with several fertility centers for those who require a higher level of care such as in vitro fertilization IVF.

Finding the right sperm donor can be a long process. This can mean sifting through hundreds of possible donors until you find the right one. Luckily, there has been a recent surge of sperm donors, at least in the US.

Over the last several years, the field of Assisted Reproductive Technology has advanced rapidly in providing assistance to couples with male factor infertility. A routine semen analysis is used to determine the adequate number and quality of sperm to predict the fertilization potential. A cycle of IVF involves daily injections to stimulate a woman to produce many eggs that are retrieved in a minor outpatient procedure. ICSI is then performed by directly injecting a single sperm into an egg using microscopic instruments.