Fertility Preservation / Egg Freezing

Specialties

Artificial Insemination (IUI)

Husband's Sperm (AIH)

Indications for artificial insemination with husband's sperm (AIH) include:


1.	Male problems that prevent normal deposition of sperm into the vagina. Examples include premature ejaculation, impotence and retrograde ejaculation.

2.	Problems with the woman that prevent normal deposition of sperm into the vagina. Examples include painful intercourse and physical deformities.

3.	Cervical factors. Examples include a narrowed cervix and absent, abnormally thick or acidic cervical mucus. Intrauterine insemination will bypass cervical problems.

4.	Suboptimal semen quality. Artificial insemination can ensure that most of the sperm in an ejaculate of low volume will get past the vagina into the upper reproductive tract of the woman. If the number of motile sperm in the semen specimen is reduced, artificial insemination may improve the chance that pregnancy will occur. In order to yield a decent chance for conception, we must have at least two million actively progressing sperm in the specimen that we use for insemination.

5.	Use of frozen husband's sperm. Sperm that has been frozen and stored prior to sterilization, radiation or chemotherapy may be utilized for artificial insemination.

Therapeutic Donor Insemination (TDI)

Indications for using an anonymous or known donor's sperm (TDI) to achieve pregnancy include:


1.	Azoospermia - the absence of sperm

2.	Oligo-astheno-teratospermia - sperm that are of low supply, having poor quality motion and/or abnormally shaped

3.	Avoidance of transmission of genetic abnormalities. When the male partner carries a gene for an undesirable inheritable condition, the couple may utilize artificial insemination by donors to avoid the risk of that condition.

4.	Reproduction by single or lesbian women. A woman without a male partner may elect to utilize donor sperm in order to have a family.