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Which Partner Will Become Pregnant in a Lesbian relationship?
Age, Career, desire to become pregnant, and Health are all factors that need to be discussed when choosing to have a child. Consider family history. Maybe one partner is currently providing more financial resources for your family and it is important that they continue building their career, making becoming pregnant an obstacle considering they might need to take pregnancy leave. A study in Belgium of 95 lesbian couples showed that only 14% of couples wanted both partners to become pregnant.

How To Choose A Sperm Donor for Pregnancy
Couples may choose a known donor such as a close trusted friend, or an unknown donor. Unknown donors may be open identity, where as the donor has agreed to contact with the child, typically 18 years old, or a closed identity donor, whereas the donor's identity is anonymous to both parent and offspring. Many themes in a scientific study regarding the satisfaction with donor types revolved around the parents wanting their child to know where they came from. Some had personal relationships with healthy boundaries with their donor, others became disappointed with a donor who changed their status. However, mothers who use unknown donors may focus on a desire to avoid legal conflicts with a third party. Some regret, eventually, that their child does not have the option to know their identity when they approach adulthood for psychological reasons. There are less donors who are open-identity.

Health records and physical features are other important factors when choosing a donor. Many people wishing to become pregnant may choose a donor with qualities that are similar to their own, or similar to their partners. Many people want offspring that look like they belong to them. This may mean considering skin tone, eye color, hair color, body weight, height, and ethnic background - therefore creating a child with features that match their own, or those of their partner.

Donor Insemination
Direct Insemination (DI)

In-Home Insemination, requires couples to use Donor Sperm, which can either be ordered online, acquired from a local clinic, or from a trusted male friend. After receiving an examination to ensure health, using an ovulation kit, and deciding which partner (or both) should become pregnant, use these resources to find the perfect donor. Sperm samples will come in a cryotank, which need to remain closed until patients are ready to use them.

Intra Cervical Insemination (ICI) Intra cervical insemination can take place at home or in a medical office. Though it requires some gynecology knowledge, causing most couples to choose this procedure takes place with the help of a doctor. In ICI the sperm is injected with a needless syringe directly into the cervical opening. This also requires closer tracking of an ovulation cycle because it must be done closer to the ovulation date.

Intrauterine Insemination (IUI)

Intrauterine insemination uses frozen sperm which is inserted directly into the uterus and must be done by a physician. This is done with a flexible polyethylene catheter and is minimally invasive. Some physicians may choose to allow the partner to suppress the syringe to allow their involvement. This procedure produces a higher rate of pregnancy than direct or intracervical insemination at 17.2% success rates.