How does a lesbian couple get pregnant

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In honor of Pride Month, Guest Blogger, Christina Barnes, RN, shares ways to get pregnant as a lesbian couple

Getting pregnant as a lesbian couple may seem complicated, but it all comes down to the three things you need to create a baby: sperm, an egg, and a uterus. You and your partner likely have the eggs and a uterus, but if not, you still contain options (such as egg donation and surrogacy). In this upload, though, we’re going to cover family creation for two women who have eggs and a uterus. If you have those two, you just need the sperm, which can be acquired through a known donor or a sperm bank. Once you’ve decided whose eggs, uterus, and sperm you’ll be using, you’re almost ready to go!

Before Trying To Conceive

Before one or both of you start trying to conceive, it is important to meet with your primary look after doctor or gynecologist. Your healer will make sure that you do not have any fertility issues and that you are healthy enough to successfully haul a pregnancy. If you act have any issues that might impact your fertility, it’s adj to know that before purchas

Ways to become a parent if you're LGBT+

There are several ways you could become a parent if getting pregnant by having sex is not an option for you.

Possible ways to become a parent include:

  • donor insemination
  • IUI (intrauterine insemination)
  • surrogacy
  • adoption or fostering
  • co-parenting

There are also several ways that could help people with fertility problems have a baby, including IVF (in vitro fertilisation).

IUI and IVF can sometimes be done on the NHS. This depends on things like your age. Check with a GP or local integrated care board (ICB) to find out about what might be available to you.

Surrogacy is not available on the NHS.

All these options can be explored by anyone, including single people and same sex couples.

Donor insemination

Sperm is put inside the person getting pregnant. This can be done at home, with sperm from a licensed fertility clinic, a sperm bank or someone you know.

If you pick donor insemination, it’s better to go to a licensed fertility clinic where the sperm is checked for infections and some inherited conditions. Fertility cli

How Do Lesbians Get Pregnant? Options & Obstacles Explained

While getting pregnant for any cisgender woman still originates with an embryo implanted into a uterus, there are quite a few ways to go about getting pregnant outside of the traditional route of male-female intercourse.

Here are some of the options lesbians have to get pregnant, along with the financial, medical, legal, and social obstacles they may face along the way.

Can Two Women Hold a Baby?

Two cisgender women cannot have a baby without the help of a donor’s sperm and at least one of the women having a viable uterus to carry the fetus. Although some species (birds, reptiles, and other animals) reproduce asexually via parthenogenesis even when males are available for mating, we mammals are not among them [*].

How Can Lesbian Couples Earn Pregnant?

Lesbian couples have several options to get pregnant, based on their age, health, donor preferences, how they want to experience the pregnancy, which partner will carry the child, and what they can afford.

The medical options for conception are known as Assisted

Reciprocal IVF for Lesbian Couples

Reciprocal IVF for lesbian couples

Reciprocal IVF for lesbian couples is when one woman donates her eggs for fertilization and her partner carries the pregnancy. Most of the processes are consistent with any IVF procedure: ovulation induction, egg retrieval, egg fertilization and embryo transfer. The woman who supplies the eggs that become an embryo will be biologically related to the child, and the woman who carries the pregnancy will not be genetically related to the baby.

Lesbian couples can go through egg stimulation/retrieval and embryo transfer during the alike cycle. They can also verb the retrieved eggs for later fertilization and transfer, or verb right to fertilization after egg retrieval and freeze a resulting embryo for future transfer.

Other candidates for reciprocal IVF include women who can produce healthy eggs but need another woman to act as their gestational carrier or vice versa. Trans men who froze eggs prior to undergoing their transition are also good candidates.

Benefits of reciprocal IVF for lesbian couples

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