Category: Family Building
Sex Selection with IVF
Sex selection with IVF is often called gender selection, by clinics and patients alike. What’s being selected is chromosomal sex, XX or XY, which is what a lab can read from an embryo. Gender isn’t something an embryo has. In the United States it’s legal, unregulated, and offered by most fertility clinics. It also requires…
Reciprocal IVF for Female Couples
In reciprocal IVF, one partner provides the eggs and the other carries the pregnancy. It is standard IVF with the roles split between two people, and it is used mainly by female couples and couples where one partner is transgender. The method goes by several names. ROPA (Reception of Oocytes from Partner) comes from the…
Donor Egg IVF
Donor egg IVF uses another woman’s eggs, fertilized with your partner’s or a donor’s sperm, to create embryos that are transferred to your uterus. You carry the pregnancy and give birth. The eggs come from someone else; everything after that is yours. For the people who need it, it’s one of the most effective options…