Tell Me about Natural Insemination and Why I Should Use It

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Natural Insemination means that a man and a woman have sexual intercourse in order to start a family, rather than by artificial insemination which is using frozen sperm or embryos.

Let’s Explain Artificial Insemination First…

Unfortunately some couples experience difficulties conceiving and sometimes it is because the male has a low sperm count or is completely infertile or it may be because he has a genetic disease which he does not want to pass on to his children. Lesbian couples and single women will also need to use an insemination method in order to have a child.

A popular method used by women to conceive a child is through sperm donation carried out at a fertility clinic. The medical staff at the clinic freeze a sperm donation after it has been screened for hereditary and genetic disorders and any serious diseases.

When an home insemination is to be carried out, the sperm is thawed and then washed to eliminate any bad or slow moving sperm; so that what’s left is of optimum quality. It is then put into the woman’s womb using a catheter. The procedure is virtually painless and usually takes no more than 10 minutes.
However, there are certain disadvantages to using artificial insemination. Although the sperm is tested for HIV and other diseases, a recipient is normally only given details of the donor’s hair and eye colour, height and weight.

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There is no information on medical history and not all genetic diseases are covered in the screening method, which could affect your child’s health in the future. Character traits will also be a mystery, so there is very little that a woman knows about the person from whom the sperm originated.
It is also said that thawed sperm doesn’t perform as well as fresh sperm and therefore more than one procedure may be necessary to ensure a pregnancy.
If you don’t want to risk using frozen sperm, or you don’t like the thought of conceiving a child in the atmosphere of a fertility clinic with an unknown donor, then natural insemination through sexual intercourse is a good option.

Should the Donor and I Have Any Tests before Natural Insemination and What Should They be?

The more tests you have, the better protected you, your donor and your future child will be. Sperm analysis should be the first test to think about to ensure the donor sperm is healthy and fertile.
You should both have a blood test to find out your blood types. A person who is Rh negative and conceives with a person who is Rh positive could mean your baby may have health problems. There is an injection you can have, called anti D immunoglobulin which will protect your baby if this is the case with you and your donor.

Tests for HIV, Gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, Syphilis, Hepatitis B and C will of course protect you and any child you conceive from these diseases.

Can I Use Any Sexual Position if I want to get Pregnant by Natural Insemination?

Although in reality any sexual position can result in pregnancy, it is better not to use a standing position, or one where the woman is on top. These positions are less likely to be successful because the sperm can escape through the vagina and so there are fewer sperm making their way up into the cervix.

It is said that for the best possible chance of a pregnancy, it is best to choose the missionary position; or on all fours, ‘doggy style’ because this allows for deeper penetration and means that the sperm end up closer to the cervix.
There are lots of old wives tales too like sitting up after sexual intercourse with your legs up against the wall so that the sperm travels upwards faster and drinking grapefruit juice to thin the cervical mucus to make the journey easier for the travelling sperm. If you browse some of the pregnancy forums on the internet, you will see that some women swear they got pregnant using these methods!

Don’t worry if you can’t use the positions recommended, just choose a position that makes you feel comfortable because this will help you to feel positive and relaxed.

When Is The Best Time To Go Ahead With Natural Insemination?

The best time to go ahead with natural insemination is to have intercourse the day before you ovulate because this is when the egg and the sperm are at their best and a successful result is more likely.
The egg will only be ready for fertilisation for a period of between 12 and 24 hours, although sperm can survive between 3 and 5 days and if you keep track of your periods you will have a better chance of knowing when you ovulate.

Ovulation is when an egg is released into one of your fallopian tubes. There are a variety of symptoms that should give you some clues, such as swelling and tender breasts, stomach cramps an increased desire for sex, a rise in body temperature and a change in the thickness of your cervical mucus.
Keep a note of the day and date you start your period and the day it stops, do this for a couple of months and you should see a pattern emerging which will tell you how many days you have between one period and the next. Usually it is 28 days, but it can be longer or shorter.

When you know your monthly cycle, you can then pinpoint ovulation because it normally occurs in the middle of your cycle, for example in a 28 day cycle, ovulation will take place at around day 14. If you have a 30 day cycle then it will be around day 15.
You can also buy ovulation kits which will tell you when you are ovulating and you can get these from your chemist.

Are There Any Risks Using a Sperm Donor for Natural Insemination?

If you have all the necessary tests carried out and you know the donor, then the risks are minimal.
However, you may have feelings of guilt towards your partner if you look upon it as an act of unfaithfulness. Therefore it is very important that you and your partner discuss the matter in-depth before you go ahead and that you both accept that it is merely a method of becoming pregnant.

If you don’t have tests, then you are taking a great risk. The donor could have a genetic disease or a chronic illness, which could put your pregnancy in danger, affect your new born baby, or the health of your child in the future.

You should also find out as much as you can about the donor before insemination takes place, if only to make you feel more at ease. Make sure when pick the place to have intercourse, your partner or a close friend know exactly where you are, tell someone when you arrive at the location and promise to contact them when you leave.

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  1. My name is john, i’m a 61 year old college educated , married male who wishes to aid couples in conceiving a family .

  2. If you are looking for an NI donor, feel free to contact me.
    I am a great guy and a loving family man. I am a loving parent of 5, caring, honest, well educated, successful. I have a great sense of humor, and I am not bad to look at. I am all too happy to help you experience the greatest gift a person can obtain (to be a parent).
    I live in the Northeast Pa, Nj, NY area. I travel often and most likely arrangements can be made to meet if you don’t live in my area.
    A bit about me:
    Caucasian/Irish
    50 years old
    5’11 200 Lbs.
    Blue eyes
    Master’s Degree
    Public Speaker and Philosopher
    Financially secure
    Happy and Successful
    Positive attitude
    Well-traveled
    Former College Athlete
    STD tested and never a blemish on my record
    Very Healthy and strong constitution in regard to mental health
    Strong faith/Christian

  3. Hello, This is Darryl, 34 yrs looking for a natural insemination partner in Washington DC. Please get back to me so we can go over more details. Thanks.

  4. Hi my name is Amanda, I live in California and interested in natural insemination with a sperm donor. Any in California? Los Angeles area? Please contact me if you are a clean, healthy, and trustworthy donor. Thanks!

  5. If there is maternal instinct, there is definitely paternal instinct. Why wouldn’t men have this when they become a parent? Men can be fiercely protective, if not more so, than mothers. The idea of there being only maternal instinct ignores fathers.

    1. Well put! – As a male, I’m grateful you’ve said this Elizabeth. Anyone who doubts this should sit through a court custody battle. While often guys have a separatist tendency (teaching kids of either gender how to be independent and do things) and women have an attachment tendency (teaching kids of either gender to be mindful of community and to communicate properly), there is overlap. Also, either gender is susceptible to being flawed and/or not a good teacher or child raiser etc.

  6. Hi I’m Jessica I’m a single mom to a infant and I want a another one when she a little older but I want to go with sperm donner this round

    1. Eric 40 Idaho, US “Ni sperm donor I’ve always desired experience pleasure of: impregnate woman, no condom Ni.

  7. Ultimately, the decision is either thoughtless or selfish:
    A) everybody else does it
    B) I’ve run out of things to talk about with my spouse, so we had kids
    C) What do I talk about with my neighbors if I don’t have kids?
    D) I can live vicariously: “my little Johnny is sooo smart”
    E) who will look after me when I’m old and frail?
    F) if I didn’t have kids, I’d have to think about deep, existential issues — which make me anxious
    G) who will remember me when I’m dead if I don’t have kids.
    H) I’m bored—nothing else to do
    I) I can dress up the little kid, and laugh when they do stupid things. Like having a puppy

    When people say they want children, they mean cute little toddlers. It’s funny how you don’t hear people say, “I can’t wait to have a lazy,
    Acne-covered fifteen year old, who swears at me, who rarely bathes, and who masturbates all day.”

    C’mon people: let’s be honest about this vitally important decision.

    1. It’s so true.
      I believe “E) who will look after me when I’m old and frail?” is the number one reason in my culture.

  8. Hi im looking for a sperm donor,im 31years old and i have 1 daughter and it will be great if I couldn’t find a dollar donor for my second childthanks for reading message me back if you’re interested.

    1. Eric 40 Idaho, US “Ni sperm donor I’ve always desired experience pleasure of: impregnate woman, no condom.

  9. Hi I’m a lesbian looking for a donor for my wife so we can start a family. I don’t have any kids and she doesn’t either.

  10. Hello, I am 22 years and healthy. I don’t smoke nor drink . But I am looking for a sperm donor . I know a lot of you might think I am young to have a kid but to be honest there has nothing I wanted more than to have a kid. I graduated from college, financially stable, bought my own home earlier this year. Have my own vehicle and pay my own bills. I would love to be able to bring a child into this world and be able to give it a better life than mine. I don’t party nor go out very much and I have a very good support system .

  11. Hello I’m looking for a donor that ships must be African American/ Puerto Rican or something foreign to resemble my partner!

  12. I’m looking to have a baby with someone I’m a wonderful man and I’ll love to see if there is someone out there coparenting

  13. Ha ha
    That moment when you write an article about instinct, but you have no idea what the word “instinct” means.
    Bonding and love are not instinct, and they are not related to instinct.
    Have you ever seen a feral cat wandering around with her new litter of kittens? Nobody taught that cat how to care for her kittens, nobody told her how to feed them, how to clean them, nobody trained her to teach them how to hunt. She just knows. That’s instinct.
    Nobody knows for sure whether human men have paternal instinct or not, and this is definitely not a topic that should have been addressed by somebody who doesn’t know the definition of the word instinct.
    Some mammals, like wolves, coyotes and whales, father’s do have paternal instinct. Nobody taught a father wolf that his pups can’t actually defecate unless you massage their anus, but all father wolves know this and they know exactly how to do it. That’s instinct.
    On the other hand, a father cat has no paternal instinct. None zip zilch nada. That doesn’t mean that he won’t grow to love the kittens or accept the kittens as part of his family. He just won’t ever have that primal knowledge of how to be a father.
    Whether or not a woman chooses to have children has absolutely nothing to do with maternal instinct. You crossed over into reproductive instinct. Men by far have the superior reproductive instinct. Women do have reproductive instinct, it’s just significantly lower than a man’s. Maternal instinct would not kick in until after she has been impregnated.
    Do human men have paternal instinct? Nobody knows.
    Human instinct has been greatly diminished as a result of society and civilization. While all of our human instincts are still there lingering in the bottom of the subconscious, very few of them are actively used anymore. Reproductive instinct is still in use, maternal instinct is partially in use but not fully intact, danger instinct is partially intact etc etc.
    Human men do not exhibit any indications of having paternal instinct, but that does not mean that they never did. It could be there lingering in the subconscious partially intact. we won’t really know the answer to that question until we can definitively figure out whether or not humans are biologically monogamous. There is a direct correlation between monogamous species and paternal instinct.

    Learn what you’re talking about before you talk about it

  14. I came in here because my partner wants to have children and I don’t. He ran out of arguments to convince me, so I’m rummaging through the internet. Again, nothing sounds good to me.
    1) Many people see cuddling and play. I see a pile of laundry, exhaustion, crying … Currently, for about a year I have been in a state of sleep deprivation, I am exhausted and I do not know how you can want to bring this state to yourself voluntarily and with enthusiasm.
    2) I am a woman, in my country the child is given the surname of the father. I have never attached much importance to it.
    3) I think that I would be a bad mother and my ward would only bring worse conditions to the world. I get irritated too easily (fatigue only makes this problem worse).
    4) My life doesn’t have to matter to the world. My life should matter first and foremost to me and I don’t see how a child could enrich it.
    5) and 6) A dog would be better. And it does not speak back.
    7) A baby won’t make me more complete. I like my life as it is.
    8) I am afraid of repeating my parents’ mistakes – just like my mother, I take on too many responsibilities because they kept telling me that “a girl has to do more”. I feel that I will not be able to work, raise children and run the house at the same time. I have no one to ask for help.
    9) If I want to experience something exciting, I go to the amusement park and get on a roller coaster.
    10) I am not ashamed to buy toys for myself, I am not ashamed to go to the cinema for a children’s movie. Why do I need a little drooling excuse?

  15. As a divorced father of whom his children were illegally abducted by his ex-wife, I was left with a tremendous pain of loosing my children (dont know where they are till today).

    When a few years later a female friend of mine that I had dated before, approached me and telling me she wanted to get pregnant, i felt her pain of being single and not being a mother: I agreed to help her get pregnant. I took about a year to get her pregnant (fertility issues on her side), but thank G’d, a beautiful boy was born.
    This was one of the most rewarding decisions I have made, as I was involved in the whole process, and the child knows who his father is according to our agreement.
    The child actually managed to revive my spirit and optimism and soothe my pain, and she and I started growing together more and more: perhaps we will tie the knot one day? G’d knows.

  16. We are trying to do the turkey blaster method at home. How do we sterilize the syringe? I got the sterile cup from my doctors office and bought an oral syringe from drugstore. Is it okay to put the plastic syringe in hot water for sterilization or is there any other method to do it? Any help is appreciated. Thank you!

  17. I am unable to ejaculate by any means with my wife but I can ejaculate no problem while masturbating alone. So we tried the “cup and syringe method” to conceive. It was easy. Our daughter was conceived in the 2nd cycle of ovulation and my son in the first. You definitely don’t need intercourse to get pregnant.

  18. So, while doing the at home IUI you’re only placing the sperm close enough to the cervix; correct? Not directly implanting the sperm into the cervix, only around it? Are there any hazards with directly inserting the sperm into your cervix? I’m generally trying to cover all risks of at home IUI. I have tried for 9 months straight to have my second child, whom is now 2 years old. So just about 1 year of trying, but 9 months making it a big deal at least.

  19. My boyfriend is a father to 2 children. We have been together for awhile now and we have been interested in having another child with my sperm. I’ve been doing research on surrogacy via a IVF clinic and that price is outrageous. We would need to a woman willing to be a egg donor and surrogate. In finding a surrogate, should I consider the people closest to me first? Or should I find a egg donor and surrogate online ?

  20. Im a 32 year old lesbian I would make a great mother I had blonde hair and blue eyes when I was younger but its brown now I would love just a healthy smart and blonde hair blue eyes baby no healthy issues and maybe if i can even find someone maybe a lil darker skinned maybe a little indian in them if possible 6 ft 7ft tall. In the North Carolina area thanks.

  21. Ok women, just contact me. I have the personality of obama, better looking than obama for sure, and obama? I am much more intelligent. I am driven, accomplished, brown hair and brown eyes. Over 6 ft. No cost and I will travel anywhere.

  22. I believe a man should be able to donate sperm as long as he can get it up hard and strong enough to get the job done and still shoots good healthy loads.

  23. We are doing the at home insemination using a 10 ml syringe. But I can’t feel my cervix. My finger is not long enough. So I don’t know if I’m getting the sperm close enough to my cervix. Is there another way besides using a finger to find the depth of my cervix?

  24. What age do you get “paternal instincts?” Because I have heard of like girls getting older and feeling strong feelings about being a mother staring around their teenage years.

  25. When a couple have new born baby then it is a new process for them to be adjust accordingly. When they get disturbance in their life they argue with each other to handle the situation.

  26. I started realizing I want children about a year ago. I always liked the idea of it, but it became something imperative for me only recently. I have little daydreams about teaching my future child about the world, showing them how nature works, watching them explore and ask questions and learn how to answer them. But now, in my late 20s, it’s become more about being closer to my deceased mother and experiencing what she experienced with my brother and I. I want my dad to have grandchildren, and I want to show my child everything I got to experience and more.

  27. I want to have children in the near future so I can have someone to always be there when I am old and frail, and so I can love, protect them and teach them how to become world leaders.

  28. A drop in testosterone?
    That would explain why bad wives/mothers find the father of their child “not as exciting as he used to be”.

  29. Ivve been trying for months and months to get pregant woth my second child and nothing is working. I figured if i had my fiance cum in a cup and use a turkey baster to insert his cum into my uterus and keep my legs in the air for 5 to 10 minutes and see how it goes. If nothing happens within a couple weeks should i go to my ob/gyn and try and get them to surgically implant my fiances sperm into my eggs since im fertile now. I need good advice so i would appreciate it if someone will respond to this and give me advise as to what i should do. Please and thank you

  30. So if you’re a lesbian couple u will need someones sperm ? I wouldn’t feel comfortable collecting someones sperm to put into my gf

  31. I lost my baby a couple of months ago and have been scammed out of my money can you help me with. New born baby can’t have no more would like to give a baby a loving home and love and a good life

  32. You gave a clear explanation about this post. I am impressed by your site a lot, You made it well. Thanks for sharing the best posts they amazing. I got the best posts and information it’s very interesting one and also very help us

  33. just contact me. I have the personality of Matt Damon, better looking than George Clooney for sure, and Gates? I am much more intelligent. I am driven, accomplished, brown hair and electric blue eyes. Not quite 6 ft but close. No cost and I will travel anywhere.
    Best Wishes

  34. Hi,I’m Leslie.I am from Lexington Kentucky. I am at the point in my life where I have my home and career Where I want and need it to be and I am ready to settle down and have a family. I have had baby fever for a great number of years now and I am to the point in my life where I am ready to start trying to conceive immediately

  35. Ok women, just contact me. I have the personality of Matt Damon, better looking than George Clooney for sure, and Gates? I am much more intelligent. I am driven, accomplished, brown hair and electric blue eyes. Not quite 6 ft but close. No cost and I will travel anywhere.
    Best Wishes

  36. Hi Don,

    I am looking for a co-parent. I am 35 years, and would really like the dad to be involved in the child’s life. Let me know if you are interested.

  37. I am a 60 years old heterosexual male financially independent who hasn’t experienced the joy of being a parent.What would the chances be of attracting a coparent being more senior in years.I enjoy good health and I am very fit going to the gym daily.

    Regards

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