When it comes to trying for a baby, it’s one of the most exciting, exhilarating and stressful times of life. So many couples go into this period of life thinking that it will be easy to conceive a child. After all, you hear the stories of people trying for one month and boom – baby!
Unfortunately, it’s not always an easy process. Some couples struggle a lot longer than other couples to have a child, and if you have been trying for a baby for more than a year, it can bring on a feeling of desperation. This child is something that you both want and wanting a baby to make a family can be all consuming. This is so much that you may not have even considered options like IVF, or embryo donation.
There are plenty of alternative ways that you can make a family, even if a natural method doesn’t work for you. There are also plenty of children out there who are in desperate need of loving homes that you could possibly give them. Below, we’ve got some alternative ways that you can make a family with a little help from your doctor.
- IVF. If you’ve been trying the regular way to have a baby, but nothing is happening you might want to seek the help of a doctor for in vitro fertilisation. IVF is available in a range of infertility clinics across the country and it’s quite a straightforward process. You take some medication to ensure egg production in your cycle, and at the right time of the month your eggs are then extracted with a needle. Your partner takes a cup into a room and deposits a sample, and then these two are put together in a dish so that the optimum sperm can be mixed with your eggs. This is then put back into your uterus and the wait begins to see whether it’s worked. It’s a targeted way to ensure a blast is able to form and then you just have to wait to see if it catches.
- ICSI. This is a similar option to the IVF, except that your eggs are not extracted. In this case, the doctor will take a sample from your partner or from a sperm donor, check the health of the sperm and then they will take the healthiest ones and deposit them directly into your uterus at the optimum time of the month. You’ll be on medication and take a HCG shot to ensure that you ovulate. Again, it’s a good way to ensure that the sperm gets to the right location at the right time to wait for the egg.
- Adoption. This is quite a long and convoluted process, but adoption means that you are giving a loving home to a child who doesn’t have any parents or family to live with. Adoption is a gruelling process and it’s very in-depth, but if you have the time, the inclination, and even the money, you should be able to go through the adoption process and come out through the other side with a child of your own.
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