Infertility and involuntary childlessness
Involuntary childlessness is defined as having tried to conceive for more than a year. Involuntary childlessness can also be caused by non-medical reasons, such as being single or homosexual where a biological partner is simply not available for a child to be conceived.
Infertility
There are various reasons why you may not get pregnant. Involuntary childlessness or infertility affects around 15% of couples. One third are male causes, one third are female causes and one third are unknown causes. There is also discussion and research into whether infections, chromosome disorders, drugs and anatomy may be the causes of involuntary childlessness.
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Infertility is on the rise
Women are born with about 400,000 eggs in their ovaries and don’t get any new ones in their lifetime. Men get about 1 800 new sperm per second. Women’s Infertility starts to increase at 25 and by the time they turn 40 they have only a 5% chance of getting pregnant. In addition, studies show that men’s sperm concentration and thus fertility have declined drastically since 1973.
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Permanent infertility
Some women do not have a uterus to carry a child, others have or have had diseases that make it impossible to get pregnant. Some have undergone all kinds of infertility treatments without success. Some have placed their hopes in adoption, but don’t have that opportunity. For many of them, surrogacy would be a way to become a parent.
IVF – In vitro fertilization
IVF or In vitro fertilization is a fertility method where a woman’s egg is retrieved from an ovary to be fertilized by a man’s sperm outside a woman’s body. IVF means in vitro fertilization (‘in vitro’ = in glass and ‘fertilization’ = conception). The method is used for all forms of Infertility; female, male and unexplained childlessness.
In IVF, a woman is first stimulated with hormones to allow more eggs than to mature than in a natural cycle. The man donates sperm. Sperm and eggs are brought together in a culture dish so that fertilization can occur. After 2-5 days, an embryo is transferred to a woman’s uterus.
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Infertility and surrogacy
To determine whether a woman’s own eggs can be used in a surrogacy process or whether an egg donator is needed, a fertility evaluation is carried out to check the quality of both the eggs and the sperm. In case of poor quality, an egg donator, sperm donor or both may be needed.
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Frequently asked questions answers about involuntary childlessness
How does a surrogate mother become pregnant?
Once the woman seeking to become a surrogate mother has undergone comprehensive medical, psychological and social assessments, and a legal contract has been signed, an embryo transfer is carried out using IVF (assisted fertilization). The embryo transferred is created from the sperm of the father-to-be and the egg of the mother-to-be or an egg donor. This embryo transfer makes a pregnancy possible.
If I need to choose an egg donor, how do I proceed?
The process of choosing an egg donor is different depending on the destination you choose for the surrogacy process. Most commonly, you choose an egg donor from a database or the clinic selects a small number of donors who fit your requirements.
For most intended parents, choosing an egg donor is an emotional step, and it is not uncommon to become attached to the selected donor. To facilitate this part of the process, it is good to remember that the programme is both voluntary and medically demanding for the donor.
In some cases, the egg donor may decide to drop out of the programme for personal or medical reasons, such as not responding to hormone therapy. In such an event, a new egg donor will be selected.
In what countries are Nordic Surrogacy’s partnering clinics located?
The clinics that Nordic Surrogacy works with are located in the USA, Georgia and Colombia.
Can you do the surrogacy process as a single person?
It is completely possible to do a surrogacy process as a single person. Surrogacy arrangements for single men are available in countries such as Colombia and the United States. A single woman can undergo a surrogacy process in the USA.
