[UmmIthnain]

Has anyone tried this?

"I am a surrogate and know many traditional surrogates who have achieved pregnancy by inseminating themselves at home. I do not recommend the turkey baster as a lot of the semen/sperm can remain inside the baster with no real way to get it all out. You should use a syringe (no needle). A pretty good sized one that will reach all the way to your cervix, if possible. Put the semen in a cup and then suck it up into the syringe. Insert the syringe into your vagina as far and as straight as you can, then depress the plunger. Most if not all of the semen should be expelled into your vagina, hopefully very near or into your cervix. Also, you may want to lie flat on your back or with your hips elevated on a pillow for an hour or so to give gravity a chance. Hope this helps. "
taken from:http://forums.obgyn.net/pregnancy-bi...0209/1778.html

 

[Charles Baudelaire]

No, but it works pretty well as a method provided that the problem with fertility isn't in fallopian tube blockage or something amiss with the cervix or uterus.

She left out the fun part, though -- when you're done self-inseminating, give yourself an orgasm. The contractions help get the sperm up inside the uterus. Isn't that nice?

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Originally Posted by UmmIthnain Has anyone tried this? "I am a surrogate and know many traditional surrogates who have achieved pregnancy by inseminating themselves at home. I do not recommend the turkey baster as a lot of the semen/sperm can remain inside the baster with no real way to get it all out. You should use a syringe (no needle). A pretty good sized one that will reach all the way to your cervix, if possible. Put the semen in a cup and then suck it up into the syringe. Insert the syringe into your vagina as far and as straight as you can, then depress the plunger. Most if not all of the semen should be expelled into your vagina, hopefully very near or into your cervix. Also, you may want to lie flat on your back or with your hips elevated on a pillow for an hour or so to give gravity a chance. Hope this helps. " taken from:http://forums.obgyn.net/pregnancy-bi...0209/1778.html

 

[huggerwocky]

hm, so how do you store the sperm before you use it?

 

[thismama]

This is how I got pregnant with my daughter. We used a 10cc syringe, no needle of course, with the tip cut out.

My babydaddy delivered the goods pretty instantly, but apparently sperm can stay fresh for up to an hour if kept at body temperature.

Worked like a charm!

For more information about at home insemination, check out The Ultimate Lesbian Guide to Parenting by Rachel Pepper.

 

[Charles Baudelaire]

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Originally Posted by huggerwocky hm, so how do you store the sperm before you use it?

It can be specially frozen; you can't do it yourself.

Fresh works best. If you're doing a traditional surrogacy arrangement, there are several different ways you could handle this:

1. Wife or partner "helps" the male donor and then wife or partner gives sperm to surrogate
OR
2. Donor himself gives sperm to surrogate
OR
3. The donor leaves it in a room for the surrogate to inseminate herself
OR
4. Wife/partner and donor help surrogate in the process of insemination

No matter what, though, fresh is best.

 

[Satori]

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Originally Posted by thismama For more information about at home insemination, check out The Ultimate Lesbian Guide to Parenting by Rachel Pepper.

I rather liked The Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy & Birth by Kim Toevs and Stephanie Brill. Felt Peppers book dealt more with the parenting issues rather then the nitty gritty details of conception and legal issues like Toeves and Brill did.

 

[Defenestrator]

I help women get pregnant via donor sperm. I had a midwife friend teach me a method using a needleles 10cc syringe and a feeding tube. You draw up the sperm in the syringe, then attach the feeding tube. You depress the syringe until the sperm is about halfway down the tube, then guide it with your finger up near the cervix. Depress the syringe until it is all the way empty then detach it from the tube (hold the end of the tube upward so that the sperm doesn't run out) then put a small amount of air in the syringe and attach it to the tube. The air pushes the remaining sperm in the tube out so that you get out every precious last drop.

The advantage is that it is a bit less messy, gets the sperm into a more precise location and also the tube + finger is more comfortable for many people to insert than a syringe. One downside that I could see is that this method would probably be easier with a helper -- women trying to inseminate completely on their own might find it easier to just use the syringe.

Good luck!