I had a friend tell me that a lesbian couple she knows wanted to have a baby really bad. So they sterilized a turkey baster in the dishwasher and the filled it up with a donor’s sperm. The one partner did the procedure to the other. She got pregnant after a couple tries.
Could it be THAT EASY to get pregnant with a turkey baster? I mean doctors are charging a gazillion dollars to fertilize a potential mother. It seems if it were THAT EASY more women would be doing it. Or maybe they are and I just haven’t heard about it till now.
Yeah, but she was probably fertile and had no problems in that area. From what I understand most of the stories you hear from the technical side are those being done to women who have trouble giving birth. If you think about the turkey baster thing, is it really all that different than a mans organ? Plus they probably transfered it quickly after donation. Heck, you can’t even stop pregnancy with with a condom on 100% of the time.
Damn, is a penis THAT objectionable?? Or even the guy attached to it??
“I just couldn’t STAND having a man’s thing in me, how about that TURKEY BASTER!!” For the sperm to be fresh, the guy would just about have to load the turkey baster on site, hell I don’t think I could put a dent in a turkey baster, maybe a hamster baster…
Yeah, how much semen would that take? I mean, by God a Turkey baster is huge! I’d understand like an eye dropper or somethinf in between in size, but it would take an awful big load to fill a turkey baster!
It just seems to me that the volume of, um liquid a baster can hold is a lot larger than the average male deposit.
So, if it weren’t full, wouldn’t errant air caught in the ‘device’ cause a pretty major risk to the would be mom? Blowing air up there can’t be good.
Duke, perhaps the lesbian couple in question believes in mutual sexual fidelity, and so would prefer the use of an inanimate object over actual sex with a person other than the partner?
A turkey baster squirting semen into the vagina is technically not that far removed from a penis doing the same, there was no reason why it wouldn’t be just as efficacious as the “normal” means for women who have no other barriers which would prevent them from conceiving “naturally.”
And yes, Duke of Rat, for a lesbian, a penis is that objectionable, or at least the activity which would lead a penis to be inside of the vagina at the time of ejaculation would be. And yes, for best results the donor would have to be onsite (or the banked, donated sperm would have to be thawed on site) but that’s not necessarily an impediment. Friends of mine conceived with help of my brother in law, who made his offering in their ensuite bathroom, handed it out the door to Sally* who then used a syringe to introduce the sperm into Kate* who was on the bed.
As for why this is different than what doctors do, for which they charge a pretty steep fee – doctors do not simply put the semen into the vaginal canal. The current “artificial insemination” process is known as an IUI, inter-uterine insemination, because the semen is loaded into a syringe with a thin catheter on its tip. The syringe is inserted vaginally and the catheter passes through the cervix and into the base of the uterus, where the sperm is deposited. For women whose fertility issues were rooted in physical deformity or chemical compatability issues at the cervix, IUI produces much greater success than vaginal inseminations, be they a product of sex or a medical procedure. For women whose fertility issues are not cervical in nature, IUI’s efficacy is not nearly as great.
Names changed to protect privacy, not that “Sally & Kate” is that great an identifier!
If a donor froze his sperm into an ice cube could that said ice cube be deposited into the vagina and then impregnant the woman? Granted the ice cube would probably be beyond freezing. Or I guess you would defrost the ice cube in some type of container and then introduce it to the canal?
You wouldn’t want a donor to stick his sperm into an ice cube tray in his home freezer, and you certainly wouldn’t want to stick an ice cube into someone’s vagina! :eek:
I was speaking of professionally banked sperm which was properly “packaged” and frozen to a ridiculously low temperature, which is the preferred methodology for the long-term storage of biological products of that nature.
It is possible, from what I’ve understood from friends who have done it, to take possession of a canister containing the frozen sample at a sperm bank, and take it home for a private insemination or to the medical professional of your choice for a medical procedure. That’s what I was speaking of.
When freezing living cells, the water in them expands and ruptures the membranes, thereby killing the cells.
To prevent this, one needs to employ special freezing techniques (such as controlled-rate freezing) and processing techniques (such as adding dimethyl sulfoxide – DMSO).
Jerking off into the ice cube tray just ain’t gonna work.
cmkeller I wouldn’t think that a sperm donation via the act of sex would constitute infidelity…just a tool to get the job done.
And TeaElle along the same lines as the penis being objectionable…I don’t particularly care for a doctor’s finger shoved up my ass, but I endure it as a necessary part of a prostate exam. That’s the only point I was trying to make, it might not be the most anticipated event in the life of said lesbian, but it is a tool to get a job done. Of course I prefer the finger as opposed to say, a turkey baster.
I wasn’t trying to raise the ire of the lesbians of the board, I just thought that it might be endured long enough to introduce some sperm into the fertility equation.
I was involved in a lawsuit where a party self inseminated. (All parties involved were hetero, BTW.)
Recalling the research I did at that time, tho it is called the “turkey baster” method, it is generally recommended that you use one of those plastic syringes.
Also, my recall is that it is pretty effective for healthy, fertile women. As I recall, there are a bunch of sites on it. You could easily find out more than you ever wanted to know about just how it is done.
This case was a stitch. This woman was a professor’s 2d wife. The professor already had kids, and did not want more. Woman inseminates herself with donated sperm - just to make it more fun, the donor claimed to be a “secret agent.”
After the first such kid is born, woman and the professor legally separate. Then she successfully rides the baster - thanks to the secret agent - 2 more times.
When the professor died, she wanted all 3 kids to be treated as his heirs. There is a rebuttable presumption in most states that kids born during a wedding were the husband’s issue.
The 3-judge panel for the 7th Circuit really got a kick out of the oral argument! And I succeeded in rebutting the hell out of that presumption.
I don’t know about you, but having sex with some guy who I have no romatic relationship with whatsoever, nor particularly any desire for, even if I’m not a lesbian, does not sound very appetizing.
Isabelle, is there any reason why you’re so curious about lesbians? There’s certainly nothing wrong with having questions and I don’t want to pry into your life, but it seems to me that you’ve started several threads dealing with lesbian-related subjects recently. On the off-chance that this might be because you’ve recently made a new lesbian friend or had a friend come out to you, I’d like to say that you’d do better to just talk with her about it. But if you’re just curious then yeah, this is probably the best place to ask.
Well, some lesbians have gone out and gotten themselves pregnant “the old fashioned way”. But for lesbians who have cooperative donors, why bother? A lesbian, by definition, is not going to be too excited about the idea of having sex with a man. If she’s only looking to get pregnant and can just as easily accomplish this without having sex with a man then why should she “endure” it?
Another reason the docs can charge more is because they screen the sperm donors for diseases like AIDS and genetic disorders. With a turkey baster donor you’ve just got to trust the donor that he’s healthy.
I am a hetero girl, but I also wouldn’t want to have sex with a guy I felt no emotional bond with. Honestly, though, I would find it creepy to have semen from a strange guy on me too. So if I was a lesbian (or if I stay single, perhaps) and wanted a baby I would probably try to adopt a kid instead.
