Artificial insemination: What you need to know

Artificial insemination is a very modern medical technique. This technique has helped people a lot in the problem of reproduction and maintenance of the breed. In recent years, artificial insemination techniques have become more and more popular and gradually become more familiar to everyone. So what's so interesting about this technique? What methods does it include? Let's find out with SignsSymptomsList through the following article!

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• 1. What is artificial insemination?
• 2. Who should apply artificial insemination?
• 3. Who should not use IUI?
• 4. How is infertility treated with IUI?
• 5. Risks of IUI
• 6. What to do after IUI?
• 7. Statistics about IUI
• 8. Cost of IUI
• 9. Which hospital in Vietnam is the most prestigious?
• 10. Artificial insemination and the issue of giving birth to a child of your choice

1. What is artificial insemination?

The term artificial insemination in English is Intrauterine Insemination (IUI). It is a method of treating and supporting human reproductive function. The purpose of this method is to support infertile couples to have children.

This method is done through the selection of the husband's healthiest sperm. The doctors then inject the healthy sperm directly into the uterus.

Artificial insemination is a modern medical technique

Along with sperm injection in men, doctors will also give the wife orally or inject drugs to stimulate ovulation. Accordingly, the egg will develop well and ovulate at the desired time. From there, the most favorable conditions for fertilization will be artificially created.

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The most common reason that couples want to undergo this method is due to the quality of the husband's sperm. Too little sperm count, low sperm motility is the main cause affecting natural conception. Another reason is that your husband has an ejaculation disorder or unexplained infertility.

2. Who should apply artificial insemination?

Artificial insemination is used when you cannot get pregnant through normal sex. Or you find it difficult to have vaginal sex. For example, a spouse has a physical or psychosexual problem.

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In addition, this method of assisted reproduction is also recommended in the following cases:

• The wife has endometriosis.
• There are abnormalities and malformations in the genital organs.
• Spouse has HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.
• One year of unsuccessful pregnancy for women under the age of 35. Or 6 months for women age 35 and up.

3. Who should not use IUI?

You and your spouse will be advised to use other assisted reproductive methods. For example, in vitro fertilization or surrogacy if you have the following conditions:

• Fallopian tube blockage.
• Severe abnormalities in the fallopian tubes.
• Have a history of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease.
• Moderate to severe endometriosis.

Endometrial optimism

4. How is infertility treated with IUI?

Currently, the rate of successful couples through artificial insemination is about 12 to 26%. Therefore, for the best treatment results, you should go to reputable centers. The IUI technique consists of 3 main stages.

Ovarian stimulation

The goal is to create 2 to 3 mature follicles. Inside contains the ovum ready for fertilization. At the same time, it is well prepared for the implantation of the embryo in the endometrium. If more than 3 oocytes are produced, the chances of a multiple pregnancy are increased.

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Sperm selection

The husband will take the sperm. Semen will be filtered. Next, the motile sperm are filtered from the other components of the semen. The sperm is then collected and preserved. That selective sperm must be injected into the uterus as soon as possible.

Sperm pump

The wife's genitals will be cleaned and ready for sperm injection. The doctor will use a small, sterile, soft catheter to inject sperm into the uterus. At the same time make sure not to cause infection and trauma to the genital tract in the wife.

Injecting sperm into the uterus

Insemination time ranges from 3 to 5 minutes and is completely painless. This is a relatively simple technique that can be performed with a very low level of danger. More importantly, IUI technique, if performed correctly, will give relatively high efficiency.

5. Risks of IUI

Although artificial insemination is a fairly safe method, there are some risks such as:

• Bleeding and damage to the uterus if the pump is too strong.
• Inflammation of the uterus and ovaries. This condition occurs because the sperm selection process has not ensured sterility.
• Multiple pregnancy. Due to the combination with ovulation-stimulating drugs, there is a high risk of causing multiple pregnancy.

The possibility of multiple pregnancy due to IUI

6. What to do after IUI?

After performing IUI, the wife needs to lie on her back for a short period of time. At the end of the procedure, the wife put her clothes back on. After that, you can go home and go back to your normal activities.

About 2 weeks later, the wife needs to go to the hospital to check the results. Thus, the time from the start of the procedure to knowing whether you are pregnant or not is about 25 to 30 days. If you are pregnant, you will have a plan for pregnancy care and regular prenatal check-ups.

Getting pregnant after IUI

In the case of not pregnant, the couple will be guided by the doctor to have sex by natural sugar. After 2 to 3 months, the couple will return to perform the second artificial insemination .

7. Statistics about IUI

Artificial insemination is economical but only for certain cases. The success rate of this method ranges from 12 to 26%. This number is lower than in vitro fertilization (the success rate is about 40 to 45%).

In case of repeated failure with artificial insemination method , or the husband has poor sperm quality. Either the wife has blocked fallopian tubes, the wife is older (≥ 40 years old), other methods would be recommended including:

• In Vitro Fertilisation.
• Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
• Sperm removal surgery (PESA/MESA).
• In vitro egg maturation (IVM) technique.
• Support embryo escape membrane,…

Support embryo escape membrane

8. Cost of IUI

One of the problems of artificial insemination that most people are concerned about is cost. According to the reference figure, the cost including medicine and hospital fees is at least 10 million VND. Some other hospitals will have higher costs. But only ranges from 14 million to 20 million.

9. Which hospital in Vietnam is the most prestigious?

Currently, the following hospitals are said to perform reputable artificial insemination such as:

• Tu Du's Obstetrics and Gynecology.
• Hung Vuong Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital.
• Mekong Maternity.
• Central maternity hospital.
• Hue Central Hospital, Military Medical 103,…

Tu Du Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital

10. Artificial insemination and the issue of giving birth to a child of your choice

With the great advancement of medicine, sperm screening can help you to have a baby of your choice. However, because of medical ethics, our country does not allow this method to choose the sex of the fetus. Therefore, the method of sperm screening only aims to exclude weak sperm.

Hopefully, through this article, readers will have a better understanding of artificial insemination methods. Hopefully with the advancement of medicine, the success rate of artificial insemination will be higher and higher. At the same time, in our country, there will be more and more prestigious medical facilities successfully implementing this assisted reproductive method.

Dr. Nguyen Lam Giang