Hi, is it possible to actually do home insemination safely in Australia. I'm in adelaide. I've looked up a bunch of stuff online but it all says the only options for single mums is ivf or iui. iui using a tube sounds uncomfortable and I read it can be and cause some bleeding. But what if I wanted to use the secure method of getting sperm from a sperm bank and inseminating myself at home using a syringe. It seems a bit weird to go through all the costs of fertility treatment when I don't have fertility issues. I understand paying the cost of the doner sperm but why is the only option iui... has anyone else on here done it at home in australia? Where did you get the doner sperm? Was it sussessful? Any issues? And who has done iui? Experience?
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A huge amount of the cost is the sperm. The reason they do iui is because it puts the sperm right into your cervix and increases the chance of pregnancy. I just think people would rather do it once and have it work rather than have it not work and have to pay for more sperm again. Even without any fertility issues you have less than a 20% chance of falling pregnant from one time having sex (at a young age). So if you're paying all that money for sperm I'd just bite the bullet and go for the iui. But I don't see any problem with doing it at home either.
If you were going to inseminate from home using materials from a sperm bank, it's quite possible the sperm would be useless by the time you get it home. It has a life span and has to be stored correctly etc in order for it to remain viable.
Which is why they make donors wank at the clinic rather than in the privacy of there own homes.
Have a look at Stork OTC online. It is a device that you put the sperm in and insert it close to your cervix and press a button to release the sperm. There are lots of good reviews. You just need to have a sperm doner.
Thousands of people do home insemination. Sperm Donation Australia, facebook group is a good place to start.