Surrogacy is also one of the most challenging ways for gay men to start a family, not only because of the costs involved, but because the practice is relatively new and constantly changing. Let’s start with the challenges that gay couples face when considering surrogacy: Prejudice. Straight couples that have difficulty conceiving also use surrogates,…
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Cost of Clinical Insemination
Insurance Coverage If you are choosing to perform insemination at a doctor’s office or clinic, the cost will depend on your insurance plan and whether you are covered for this type of procedure. Unless you have known fertility issues, you may have trouble getting covered by your insurance carrier. Even if you do have fertility…
Cost of At-Home Insemination
At-home insemination can be relatively inexpensive, and most of your supplies can be purchased online, with the exception of the cervical cap with tube, which you can purchase through a doctor, and which is typically performed in a clinic or doctor’s office. Needleless Syringe: around $2 Sperm (see cost of sperm from a sperm bank…
Insemination Decision 3: ICI, IUI, or IVF
Oh, acronyms. When we don’t know what you mean it’s so frustrating. When we unlock your secrets it’s so satisfying. The acronyms ICI, IUI, and IVF stand for the main methods of lesbian insemination. You can think of them as equivalent to aiming a ball at a net from 10 feet, 5 feet, and –…
Insemination Decision 4: At Home, Doctor’s Office or Midwife
Once you know where you are getting your sperm from, which one of you will be getting pregnant, and which method you want to use, you will need to decide where and how you are going to begin trying. There are a couple of different ways you can go about starting. You can research gay…
Insemination Decision 2: Known Donor or Sperm Bank?
Many lesbian couples start off considering someone they know to be a sperm donor. After all, it’s easy to know what a friend or relative looks like, how he acts,…even his SAT scores. Additionally, using a known donor can mean that your child(ren) can have an open relationship with the man that contributed half of…
Insemination Decision 1: Who Will Carry?
Is one of you more “ready” to be pregnant than the other? Are both of you interested in becoming pregnant or is there one partner in your couple that you both know is more suited to the physical and emotional demands of pregnancy and birth? And how many kids are you going to have anyway?…
COST OF INDEPENDENT ADOPTION
Cost: $8,000 to $40,000 The plus side of Independent Adoption is that you will not be dealing with an agency, so you can form a bond with the birth parents and feel secure that they know exactly who will be adopting their child. However, going it agency-free also means running the risk of a birth mother or…
COST OF FOSTER CARE ADOPTION
Cost: $0 to $2,500 Adopting from the U.S. foster care system is generally the least expensive type of adoption, usually involving little or no cost, and states often provide subsidies to adoptive parents. Costs That May be Included: Attorney Fees Travel Expenses Home Study Medical Care/Psychological Evaluation Most public agencies in the foster care system…
STATE OR PUBLIC AGENCY ADOPTION
State or public agency adoption means adopting a child who is in foster care from the public child welfare system. The U.S. is currently facing a critical shortage of adoptive parents for Foster Children and children with disabilities, and gay and lesbian adoptions have been helping to fill this gap. Adopting a child in the…