artificial insemination

This is a good place to start your journey towards successful insemination. There are a few choices you can make after first learning your options - so basic definitions are required.

Artificial Insemination (AI)
Artificial insemination (AI) is a common procedure lesbians use to become pregnant. In AI, sperm is injected into a woman's cervix, uterus, fallopian tube, or ovarian follicle. Sperm is typically selected from a sperm bank or from a known donor. This may be done at home.

Sperm Bank

The Sydney Morning Herald recently informed its readers about the evolution of gay families in Australia. The number of lesbian and gay parents is increasing there and elsewhere - and the families are showing the world we can be outstanding guides and role models for our children.

Herald writer, Louise Hall, tells the story of nine-year-old Qona, a little girl born via artificial insemination. She has two lesbian moms and one gay dad.

"We call ourselves a family," said Qona's dad, Mark Harrigan (pictured with Qona).

FertilityPlus.org offers information regarding at home insemination. Although it's not intended to be taken as medical advice (always ask your doctor) - the instructions provided will aid intended parents by providing a foundation for their journey into artificial insemination.

The site outlines these 3 ways to possibly achieve pregnancy via artificial insemination at home:

• cervical cap/diaphragm
• cervical cap and access tube

Christine Gaiennie (left) and Patsy Lovell (right) - from Placentia, California - have welcomed quadruplets. Both women work as civilians for the Irvine Police Department. They have been together 5 years and have a 2-year-old son by the same sperm donor as the quads. The couple met on the job 14 years ago, when they worked as police dispatchers.

Proud Parenting members - Diana and Melissa - are trying to get pregnant.

The beautiful couple has been together for 5 years, and they started the AI process in February.

From their home in North Carolina, Melissa writes:

"Finally we can try again! Our IUI this month is on the
18th! We are so excited we can finally start trying for a baby again and are hoping, of course, it happens the first try! :)

Do you have a friend who's queasy about sperm and about to be inseminated? Give her some information about something with which she's going to become quite intimate. Are you a man who's interested in your - um - stuff? Order this book and get enlightened.

Guadalupe Benitez, and her partner are suing two San Diego doctors who refused to artificially inseminate her based on religious grounds.

In 2001, Doctors Christine Brody and Douglas Fenton denied service to the woman, citing religious objections, although Benitez had been a patient at their fertility clinic for 11 months and was taking fertility drugs prescribed by Dr. Brody. The clinic was the only one covered by her insurance plan.