Fertility Process for Gay Couples

             Gay men planning to build a family through fertility treatments will meet with their physician to discuss the details of using an egg donor and gestational carrier. Typically, couples decide together which partner will provide sperm. Some couples opt to each provide sperm to fertilize half of the eggs. The embryo used for transfer can be chosen deliberately or randomly. The partner providing sperm will undergo a semen analysis to test motility, volume, concentration, and morphology.

1. Egg Donation :The egg donor gets hormone injections to induce ovulation of multiple eggs. Women naturally release one egg a month and the injections allow a large number of eggs to mature at the same time. Once her eggs are mature and ready for retrieval, her fertility doctor schedules the procedure.The egg donor is put under sedation and her doctor uses an ultrasound guided needle inserted into each mature follicle to retrieve each egg. The lab will attempt to fertilize several eggs in a laboratory using the recipient’s partner’s sperm or selected donor sperm. This process is in vitro fertilization (IVF).In a fresh transfer cycle, the donor and the recipient’s cycles are synchronized using medication.In a frozen transfer, the embryos are frozen and typically transferred at a later time. Frozen transfers are sometimes utilized so that preimplantation genetic screening for aneuploidy (an abnormal number of chromosomes)An embryo (fertilized egg) is then transferred into the recipient’s uterus.

2. Surrogacy: attorney who specialize in gestational surrogacy. A gestational carrier is a woman who carries a pregnancy for another couple and has no biological link to that child. A surrogate is a woman who both contributes the egg and carries the pregnancy. A majority of cases in the United States utilize a gestational carrier, and not a traditional surrogate.

3. IVF :Once you’ve identified a gestational carrier, an egg donor, and the sperm source, the IVF treatment cycle will proceed. The egg donor will begin the initial phase of the cycle by taking the pre-cycle and cycle injectable medications. Once the donor is ready for egg retrieval, the eggs will be retrieved and fertilized in the laboratory with the chosen sperm. The resulting embryos will continue their development in the lab and be transferred into the gestational carrier several days later.