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Fertility Options For Single Women

Are you a single woman who is thinking and dreaming about having a child and a family? If your answer sounds "yes", probably you have many questions connected with fertility treatments and options for single women. Thanks to the advances in assisted reproductive technologies, there are few fertility options that can help single women without a partner make their dreams come true.


 In this article, you will find out more information about fertility options you can choose. 

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In Vitro Fertilization With Donor Sperm or/and Egg Donor

This kind of fertility treatment can be the first line of options for single woman. It is similar to usual in vitro fertilization procedure, but in this case, it will be used donor sperm. In the first step in the lab,eggs will be collected and fertilized with a sperm donor. When the egg will be fertilized it turns into a proembryo and will be transferred to the woman's uterus to continue its development. There are few types of sperm donor:


  1. An anonymous donor is a man who donates his sperm through a sperm bank and his identity remains disclosed, but the sperm bank's database will provide such information as  race, religion, complexion, education, and family medical history. Even when the child turns 18, the sperm donation act will be completely disclosed, which means that parents of the child can not tell the child how they were conceived.
  2. A known donor has not disclosed the identity of the man who donates sperm, which means that at the age of 18 the child has the right to know who their donor was.


Who needs to use IVF treatment with donor sperm?


  • A single woman, who want to achieve pregnancy;
  • A woman with a female partner;
  • Couples, who tried few IVF cycles and did not achieve positive results;
  • Couples with immunological diseases;
  • Couples in which man has a sperm disorder.

Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) With Using Donor Sperm

Artificial insemination using donor sperm or heterologous insemination is a standard fertility treatment. IIt'seasier to perform than surgeries, and complex instruments are not required. If the woman meets all the tubal patency and ovarian function requirements, intrauterine insemination with donor sperm is expected to guarantee a minimum success rate.  This is regularly the first line of therapy for younger women with no acknowledged fertility issues. IUI is an enormously noninvasive and affordable option. In IUI, a carefully prepared sperm pattern is positioned at once in the woman's uterus using a very thin catheter to aid conception. IUI may be carried out with or barring the assist of fertility medications. Natural cycle IUI is when no fertility medicines are used, and the sperm's placement is timed to shape a woman's own ovulation. If this is no longer profitable after two or extra attempts, or if there are elements that propose that the patient may want help to ovulate, fertility medicines are used to stimulate her ovaries to ovulate, and then IUI is performed.

Egg Freezing

Frozen eggs is another option and treatment for a single woman who doesn't plan to start getting pregnant soon but is worried that she might be approaching fertility problems in the future. The process of egg freezing involves collecting and storing a woman's eggs to be used in future fertility treatment.


The opportunity to conceive naturally and have healthy pregnancy will decrease with age due to the quantity and quality of eggs. Egg freezing can help women preserve their fertility by freezing their eggs when they are young, and the quality of eggs is high. 


The woman can consider egg freezing in few cases:


  • If she will have surgery that may damage her ovaries;
  • If she has a medical condition or needs treatment for a condition that will affect her fertility;
  • If she has a risk of premature ovarian failure or premature menopause caused by chromosomal abnormalities. The most common of these are Turner syndrome and fragile X syndrome;
  • If she has an ovarian disease, that can cause the ovaries to be damaged;
  • If she has genetic mutations that require removing the ovaries;
  • If she is not ready to have a child and has not found the right partner, it makes sense to think about freezing own eggs.

Gestational Surrogate

In gestational surrogacy, the baby is now not biologically related to the surrogate mother, who is regularly referred to as a gestational carrier. Instead, the embryo is created with the aid of in vitro fertilization (IVF), using the eggs and sperm of the intended dad and mom or donors, and is then transferred to the surrogate.

 

This form of surrogacy is, on occasion, additionally referred to as "host surrogacy" "or "full surrogacy." In most cases, at least one meant mum or dad is genetically associated with the child, and the surrogate is not. This makes gestational surrogacy much less legally complex than different forms of surrogacy because stepparent or second-parent adoption is no longer required.


This kind of fertility treatment can use not only single parents but also same-sex couples, people struggling with infertility, couples who don't desire a genetic link between the surrogate and their baby.


First of all, woman's medical history will play a crucial and huge role, but also her preferences and personal situation will determine which fertility treatment will be suitable for her and her health.

Polina Pylypenko • September 7, 2021
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