Artificial Insemination

The first fertility treatment known to man dates back to the early 20th century and required only two things, one, a healthy sperm sample and two a tool that resembled a turkey baster.

Artificial insemination can be helpful to couples who suffer from a sperm allergy, low sperm count or poor sperm mobility. If sperm count or mobility is really low intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI is the preferred treatment.

Your doctor will likely start you on a fertility drug prior to undergoing artificial insemination to improve your odds of becoming pregnant. The fertility drug is started near the beginning of your menstrual cycle to stimulate your ovaries to produce several mature eggs for fertilization instead of the one egg produced normally.

With artificial insemination timing is the key to success so you'll use an ovulation detection kit or your doctor will perform an ultrasound to determine when you'll ovulate so he/she can time the insemination. Sometimes a medication is given to induce ovulation. Once you ovulate your partner will supply a sperm sample which will be "washed" which is a procedure that concentrates the healthiest sperm in a small amount of fluid. This concentrated sperm will be put directly into your uterus through your cervix via a catheter. You'll be able to take a pregnancy test about two weeks after the procedure.

The insemination process takes about an hour and depending on the cause of your fertility problem most women will require three to six insemination procedures before becoming pregnant or trying another treatment.

Age and fertility problem will depend on the success rate of the insemination process.

The majority of couples have a 5 to 20 percent chance of conception with each cycle with those prescribed fertility drugs closer to the 20 percent mark.

Because artificial insemination is less invasive and more economical than in vitro fertilization it is usually a first step in treating fertility problems. It also allows for fertilization to occur naturally inside your body.

The only downside to artificial insemination is that it is very time sensitive. Once ovulation is detected you and your partner must be able to go immediately to your doctors office and your partner must be able to quickly supply a sperm sample.

The costs are relatively inexpensive with treatments costing between $300 to $700 per cycle. Include ultrasound monitoring and medication and the costs increase to about $1500 to $4000 per cycle.

One of the more recent pregnancies by artificial insemination to hit the news was the Masche Sextuplets of Lake Havasu City. Born June 11, 2007.

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World's Oldest Mother Gives Birth At 70 Years Old

Omkari Panwar, the wife of a retired farmer, delivered a boy and girl by caesarean section on Friday.

The frail pensioner, who has two adult daughters and five grandchildren, underwent IVF treatment to produce a male heir to the family’s smallholdings. Mum, Omkari Panwar, 70.

Her husband, Charan Singh Panwar, 77, mortgaged his land, sold his buffalos, spent his life savings and took out a credit card loan to finance the treatment.

“At last we have a son and heir,” he said. “We prayed to God, went to saints and visited religious places to pray for an heir.

“We kept no stone unturned and God has rewarded us. The treatment cost me a fortune but the birth of a son makes it all worthwhile. I can die a happy man and a proud father.”

The twins, born one-month premature and weighing only two pounds each are healthy and expected to survive, according to doctors at Jaswant Roy Speciality Hospital.

Family ... Omkari and relatives

Omkari, who has no birth certificate and does not know the day she was born, uses the date of India’s independence in 1947 to guess her age.

She said she was nine when the British Raj left India meaning she is now 70.

She lives in Muzaffarnagar, seven hours drive north of the capital New Delhi.

Romanian Adriana Iliescu, who gave birth to a daughter, aged 66 in 2005, is the world’s previous oldest mother.

After being told she had beaten the record by four years, Omkari said: “If I am the world’s oldest mother it means nothing to me. I just want to see my new babies and care for them while I am still able.”

Gynaecologist Nisha Malik, who performed an emergency operation on the 70-year-old said: “I was shocked when this old lady told me she was pregnant. I have been practising medicine for 20 years and I have never heard of such a case.”

Lina Medina World's Youngest Mother Gives Birth

Pictured to the left, in 1940, is Lina Medina, her baby, and the doctor who delivered the baby. Her son was 11 months old in this photograhph

Born at full term at Lima's maternity clinic, her child was taken through a caesarian operation done by Dr. Lozada and Dr. Busalleu.

Her son, weighing 2,700 grams or 5.92 pounds, was well formed and in good health. Child and mother were able to leave the clinic after only a few days.

As a result of a disorder known as precocious puberty, Lina Medina, born September 27, 1933 in the small Peruvian village of Paurange, was 5 years 8 months old when she gave birth by cesarean section to her son on May 14, 1939 (Mother's Day of that year).

The boy weighed 5 lbs and 9 ozs.

Lina is believed to be the youngest girl in the world to give birth to a healthy, full term baby.

Doctors found that Lina had a menstrual period at the young age of 8 months old.

The reason for this disorder is not known. As it's not everyday a 5 year old girl gets pregnant, research on the disorder is hard. Dr. Gerardo Lozada the doctor who delivered her son was astonished.

When asked who the father was, Lina did not give an answer. Many believed her father had molested her and got her pregnant. He was arrested, but because of lack of evidence, the case was dropped.

When her son, Gerardo (named after the doctor who delivered him), was 10 years old he discovered something quite shocking: the girl he believed to be his 15 year old sister was actually his mother.

Gerardo died at the age of 40 in 1979 from bone marrow disease. There is no evidence of the disease having anything to do with the fact that his mother had been so young when she had him.

Lina got married to Raúl Jurado in 1972 and had a second child 33 years after she gave birth to Gerardo. To this day the father of Gerardo is a mystery. Lina's second son currently lives in Mexico.

She was one of nine children born to country folk in Ticrapo, an Andean village at an altitude of 7,400 feet in Peru’s poorest province

A book, written by obstetrician Joseph Sandoval in 2002, who had been interested in her case, brought fresh attention to Medina’s story, and raised the prospect that the Peruvian government may belatedly offer her financial and other assistance. “The government condemned them to live in poverty back in 1939.

Extreme degrees of precocious puberty in children under 5 are very uncommon but not unheard of. Pregnancy and delivery by a child this young remains extremely rare because extremely precocious puberty is treated to suppress fertility, preserve growth potential, and reduce the social consequences of full sexual development in childhood.