Artificial insemination and surrogacy

With the help of our egg donation program our team helps women become pregnant even in their 50s, even after the menopause. Our donors make series of tests, including cerotype and the syndrome of Martin-Bell, which help us receive accurate and precise statistics.

According statistics, many blastocysts can be received from a big quantity of egg cells, so the pregnancy probability is real for women in their 50s. But only one in 10 donors can be that productive. Our clinic tested more than 700 candidates, among which only 70-75 donors have highly productive egg cells.

A. Artificial insemination

  1. Childlessness can be caused by men’s astysia or by women’s infertility. Ethically it is estimated whether to use sperm or egg cells of married couples or of donors.
  2. If a wife can not conceive because of her husband’s astysia, transfer of donor’s sperm should be made. Against this matter common ethical items can be arisen:
    1. Even if wife and husband both want it and both agree on donor’s sperm, their relations can spoil in future and this can influence a child. Juridical and genetic problems remain unsolved.
    2. Genetic origin is an important component of personality. Parents are obliged to tell their child about his genetic origin. Due to medical reasons this can turn to be life important. One thing is when a child is unaware of his origin due to his destiny, and another thing is when it happens because of ethical matters.

B. Surrogacy

 

  1. With the help of modern medicine technologies an embryo can be carried by the woman, to whom the egg cell does not belong. If the woman can not become pregnant, than after extracorporal insemination embryo can be transplanted to the alvus of the other woman.
  2. Relationships between mother and child during pregnancy influence the personality of the growing child. This is why this influence must be positive.

Examples of artificial fertilization: 

 

Donor’s sperm is tested for HIV-virus – this is why only a frozen sperm is used – and after only 10 fertilizations. In opposite case, the possibility of incest would be too high. Potential client can see the characteristic and quality of possible sperm donor in the catalogue. After the sperm is chosen, it is taken out from the vessel and it is injected into syringe through a long catheter. After that, sperm is injected to the alvus.

For the successful artificial insemination 5 attempts are used. Sperm’s donor has no right for custody. In Germany situation is different: only a married couple can use sperm from the sperm bank.

Insurance offices partially finance infertility treatment, if it is acknowledged to be a disease. Treatment covers the process from hormonal therapy to artificial fertilization. However, couples that try to have a baby this way are trying for years, what is a great psychological stress. Artificial fertilization will be successful only if egg cell and sperm belongs to the married couple and the attending medical doctor forecasts positive results.

Doctors assume that the quality of sperm decreases with time. Sperm productivity is calculated by the quantity of semen in one milliliter of ejaculate. Average quantity of ejaculate for the last 50 years has decreased from 4ml to 3ml. Semen quantity has also decreased from 113 million to 66. At the same quantity of defective semen has increased. Recommended by international health organization minimal thickness should be 20 million semen, and in 5 million fertilization it is impossible.

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