insemination på egen hand?

With fresh sperm, you?ll need a receptacle for the sperm and a way to get it into the vagina.

Sometimes the donor ejaculates into a cup. This can be a sterile specimen collection cup you buy? or just a clean container from the kitchen! The other popular option for collection is a soft cup.

Online forums that discuss home inseminations are abuzz with touting the ?soft cup method.? This approach is when you use a menstrual cup or disc to keep the sperm up by the cervix. So a sperm-filled soft cup would be inserted into the vagina and left there by the person being inseminated or a partner/helper.

The idea is that the sperm are kept up by the cervix instead of dripping down the vaginal walls. They?ll stay there for as long as you leave the cup in, so if you want to give the swimmers an hour or more to get up there, you can. (Just don?t leave it in for more than a day because you?d risk infection.)

No matter the receptacle you?re asking a donor to ejaculate into, coach them to aim carefully!

?D,? a mom in western Massachusetts, shared a funny-in-retrospect story with me: ?On the very first try [my wife and I] walked around the block until [our known donor] said he was done. He basically ?missed? the vessel. So we count it as a try, but really there was nothing to work with when we got home!?

If you?re not using a soft cup for vaginal insertion, you?ll need another way to get the sperm from the receptacle into the vagina. Most people use a needleless syringe for this, the kind you would use for giving liquid medicine to a pet or child.

The Mosie syringe has been specifically designed for home inseminations, but any will do. You simply use the syringe to suck the sperm up into it, and then push it out into the vagina.

A midwife told me before my wife and I started trying we should try to aim to coat the cervix (so, aim up and back).