Home Insemination:
DIY Insemination - Do You Know How To Use A Kit?

Home insemination is something more and more women are trying because it can be so expensive to get professional fertility help, or artificial insemination (which is known as AI).

What Is Artificially Inseminating Yourself?

Home insemination is basically inserting fresh sperm into the vagina and as close to the cervix as possible, without having sexual intercourse.
If you have been trying to conceive unsuccessfully, or if you are lesbian, or if you don't have a partner but want to get pregnant and don't want to have sexual relations with someone, than this is a really good way to try to get pregnant.
It has worked for many women, for surrogates, for couples whose partners sperm has mobility problems, low sperm count or who experience premature or retrograde ejaculation.
This method doesn't even have to be done for that complicated reasons, it can even work for couples who literally may not be able to squeeze some love-making into their calendar at the most fertile time of the month.
Other reasons you may resort to this method is if you have problems producing quality egg-white fertile cervical mucus - which is essential in helping the sperm to transport much more easily to the fallopian tubes. Your mucus may also not be compatible with your partners too.
If you suffer from anxiety or fear of sexual intercourse, or if you have vaginismus (which causes penetration to be very painful).
Other reasons you could all include having endometriosis which has attached itself to certain parts of your uterus and cervix that make sperm travel a lot more difficult. If you have a tipped uterus or some form of anatomical problem, you may also seek help from self-insemination.
So how does home insemination work?

How to artificially inseminate yourself

What You Will Need

- sterile cup
- 10ml syringe (without the needle)
- pillow or cushion
- body basal thermometer (bbt) for detecting ovulation, or ovulation test strips
- pregnancy test to take 2 weeks later (when your period is due)

Check out this video about one ladies experience with Artificial Insemination done at home, she also talks about what else she has been doing to try to achieve pregnancy:

DIY Home Insemination Process

Firstly you need to determine when you are going to ovulate, because it is the few days leading up to ovulation and the day of ovulation that you are most fertile.
If you don't ovulate, or have problems with regular ovulation, it can also be bought on with hormone drugs to stimulate your ovaries so that they will release an egg for you.
Start by handing the sterile cup to your partner or sperm donor. He will need to ejaculate into the cup, and the sooner you can use the sperm, the better.
Before inserting the syringe make sure you are in a comfortable position and place the pillow under your hips so that they are elevated to help assist with gravity towards the cervix.
You want to be in a position that you are comfortable enough to lie in for at least 15 minutes, but preferably to half an hour.
Ideally some women will fall asleep afterward to maximize the chances of the sperm having a chance to make it's way through the cervix into the uterus and into the fallopian tubes.
Some have said they even raise their legs into the air, or lay them in an upward position against the wall. It's up to you if you want to try that, just aim not to spill the sperm out.

How to use the home insemination syringe

Making sure there is no needle on the end, draw back the device so that you are sucking air up the syringe, than push the air back out and insert the tip of the syringe into the sperm in the container.
Slowly draw back taking in as much of the semen as possible. You can tilt the cup sideways to try and maximize the amount you will draw.
With the syringe still fully drawn back, insert the syringe as deeply into the vagina as possible. Get yourself relaxed and release as much tension as you can than slowly push the sperm out. Do not push it out quickly.
Wait about 10 seconds before slowly pulling the syringe out of your vagina. Remain as still as possible.
You can also try to orgasm as the muscles will contract and hopefully assist in easing the sperm through the cervix easier.
Most women who try this method will end up pregnant after 6 months of trying, if done consistently and at the most fertile time of the month.
If home insemination doesn't work for you, it might be time to explore your assisted fertility options.
Goodluck! Baby Dust!