IUI helps you get pregnant by inserting a large number of healthy sperm inside the uterus and near the opening of the fallopian tube.
When you get IUI, the sperm don’t need to travel through the cervix and uterus. Additionally, more viable sperm make it into the fallopian tube, where they can meet and fertilize the egg. As a result, you have a much better chance of getting pregnant.
Women must have eggs that can mature, be able to ovulate, have unobstructed fallopian tubes, and have a healthy uterus.
Men must be able to produce healthy sperm. Women also have the option of using a sperm donor.
The first step is to start taking medication to increase the number of eggs that mature.
While you’re on medication, you’ll have several brief appointments for ultrasound and blood tests.
The testing allows your provider to make sure everything is going smoothly.
Closely monitoring your eggs and hormone levels gives them the ability to identify when your eggs are mature and ready to ovulate.
You receive a shot that makes you ovulate within 36 hours.
A few hours before your insemination, your partner provides a sperm sample or you use donor sperm you’ve thawed.
The sperm is prepared by separating them from semen and concentrating the sperm.
