After all the paper work comes to its end, you may be getting ready to your pregnancy. If you have chosen to be the traditional surrogate mother, it is extremely important that you should know your cycle. As a rule it may take 3 and more months of monitoring, in order you might get to know the date of your ovulation days. You may use the time of making all the necessary testing and the time of signing up all the contracts to get familiar with your cycle, so, that you would not loose more time and get pregnant immediately after the paper work is completed.
After that the perspective surrogate mother and the intended parents usually choose the way they would like a surrogate achieves pregnancy. There are many women, perspective surrogate mothers, who choose to try insemination, completed in home conditions. This way is more convenient and it is also much less expensive for the intended parents. If the surrogate mother knows her ovulation day, the very insemination process becomes very simple and completely painless. What they all will need is a sterile collection cup for the intended parents and a special medicine syringe and comfortable conditions for the surrogate mother. The intended father collects his sample to the collection cup, it is to be kept at body temperature and it is to get into the surrogate mother’s uterus within half an hour, otherwise the sperm will not be alive. The surrogate mother takes the sample, draws it into the syringe, finds a comfortable position for her, the best position is considered to be lying on the bed, and there a woman will also have a possibility to relax for about half an hour after the very procedure. So, she lies down, props her hips on a pillow, and deposits the sample into herself, leaving the syringe in place for several minutes afterwards. The best idea is to turn around and lie on a stomach for some time after the very insemination procedure.
You should keep in mind that it is extremely important to know at least approximate day of your ovulation, as the insemination is to be conducted several days before it. You may also do several inseminations, but remember that the intervals between them are to be at least 24 hour so, that the sperm would have time to replenish.
If you feel somewhat unsure in your abilities, you may prefer having the intrauterine insemination done in the clinical conditions. After you calculate your cycle, on the day of ovulation you along with the intended father go to the hospital together. The intended father provides doctors with his sample, then it is washed and the sperm is placed inside of you with the help of a catheter which gets inserted into the surrogate mother’s uterus. Then the sperm is released into it. There exists a necessity to wash the sperm, and it is done in order to separate it from the liquid, in order to increase the surrogate mother’s chances to get pregnant.
No matter what kind of insemination you, being a surrogate mother would choose, after two weeks you will possibly receive a positive pregnancy test. But you should keep in mind that the result is not always positive, and then some more attempts should be done. Sometimes up to 6 attempts are needed to achieve pregnancy.
So, after all let us sum up and see all the advantages and disadvantages of the surrogacy types, described above.
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