Please read this and let me know if I am crazy..this can't happen right?

Oceanbabe2012 · January 2012

From a baby site...please read lol

Howdy. My name is Jaime, and my wife's name is Leigh. We have been together for 3 years, and are currently TTC our first child. I have wanted children ever since I was about 3. I have wanted nothing more than to have tons of babies running around.

We just started our first "round" last night. It was....well clumsy and very weird and interesting lol. I am hoping it works, but I am very nervous! Any help or suggestions, if it doesn't work, are greatly appreciated!

So I am thinking after reading this what is a "round" and why would it be clumsy and very weird....so people asked what this round was because they thought only IUI.. IVF..ect was possible. Then she writes this...

I will be carrying, I'm the longer hair on the right side of the picture. We have a wonderful male friend who is willing to donate, and we are pretty much doing it at home, which is why it was weird lol he's essentially going into a cup, and then we're insterting ourselves. I tracked my ovulation and I have been pregnant twice before (abortion at 12 as a result of rape, and miscarriage at 20), so we are hoping that means that I am fertile enough that it will take naturally and we won't have to go the extra mile.

This is not a possible way to get pregnant..is it??!

Oceanbabe2012 · January 2012

LindsRockies:
This is the muddiest mud that's muddy.

I guess I am naive and it is something that works?

https://www.babymed.com/home-artificial-insemination-get-pregnant-turkey-baster-method

Bethbsn06 · January 2012

It is possible. It's essentially a simplified version of what we did in the OB office. Male ejaculates into a cup, we would "wash" the sperm to get rid of any extra junk, check them under the scope to make sure there were swimmers, and then use a pipette-like device to insert through the cervix. They wouldn't have made i all the way through the cervix, but they could get close.

As long as they kept the sperm warm and there wasn't too much of a delay, it is possible.

Oceanbabe2012 · January 2012

Bethbsn06:
It is possible. It's essentially a simplified version of what we did in the OB office. Male ejaculates into a cup, we would "wash" the sperm to get rid of any extra junk, check them under the scope to make sure there were swimmers, and then use a pipette-like device to insert through the cervix. They wouldn't have made i all the way through the cervix, but they could get close.
As long as they kept the sperm warm and there wasn't too much of a delay, it is possible.

Wow ok, I always thought it was a untrue thing, but I guess people do it and have had success.

KNemo · January 2012

Wasn't there a thread like this on TB a while ago? I swear I have read this before.

Oceanbabe2012 · January 2012

KNemo:
Wasn't there a thread like this on TB a while ago? I swear I have read this before.

I dont think the same one ..this was taken from a a post that was posted 10 min ago.

Oceanbabe2012 · January 2012

LindsRockies:
Oceanbabe2012:

LindsRockies:
This is the muddiest mud that's muddy.

I guess I am naive and it is something that works?

https://www.babymed.com/home-artificial-insemination-get-pregnant-turkey-baster-method

I mean that the backstory is probably fake. In theory, the turkey baster method could work. Any time semen is present in the vagina during the FW *could* result in a pregnancy.

Oh hell, did I really just type this? ::facepalm::

lol sorry to bring it here, but I just had to see what you girls thought about this. I never knew you could just try it at home because I never hear any girls on TB talk about trying it at home first before IUI, but I guess people do and some get pregnant. Always thought the turkey baster method was just a joke. Did not know people actually do it!

emeredith10206 · January 2012

This reminds me of that movie "The Switch." Have any of you ladies seen this? It has Jennifer Aniston in it and they do this "procedure" at her fertility party. Kinda crazy- in the movie it works but I had no clue people actually do this! Crazy- but I guess possible!!

Kdbean27 · January 2012

KNemo:
Wasn't there a thread like this on TB a while ago? I swear I have read this before.

I remember that too. The guy had a wife? And she didnt know he had volunteered himself and was pissed about it when she found out?

KNemo · January 2012

Kdbean27:
KNemo:
Wasn't there a thread like this on TB a while ago? I swear I have read this before.
I remember that too. The guy had a wife? And she didnt know he had volunteered himself and was pissed about it when she found out?

Yeah, that is ringing bells for me and mush brain.

And Ocean, I didn't mean this exact thread, but the concept has been on TB before. Hence the "wasn't there a thread like this on TB" comment in my OG response.

ETA: Spelling

lilydeven · January 2012

emeredith10206:
This reminds me of that movie "The Switch." Have any of you ladies seen this? It has Jennifer Aniston in it and they do this "procedure" at her fertility party. Kinda crazy- in the movie it works but I had no clue people actually do this! Crazy- but I guess possible!!

I saw this movie and thought "it can't be that simple, could it?" I guess it could work for some!

emikat · January 2012

I have lesbian friends that did this with a male friend donor. It works.

ChristyML · January 2012

It works. There is a famous lesbian lady who is in music...Her first name is Melissa...I don't remember her last name...but anyways. She and her partner had a male friend donate and they used a turkey baster and it worked for them. I think it worked twice for them. So YES. It is definitely possible.

kellyrn9956 · January 2012

Um. Yes. There are kits for at-home insemination for lesbian couples. They don't use a turkey baster, and many would probably be insulted at the insinuation of that.

ball.and.chain · January 2012

kellyrn9956:
Um. Yes. There are kits for at-home insemination for lesbian couples. They don't use a turkey baster, and many would probably be insulted at the insinuation of that.

THANK YOU for that clarification Kellyrn! No one uses a turkey baster. They buy kits or they use needle-less syringes. Many lesbians prefer to do insems at home because it's less "clinical." If you're also using free sperm from a known donor, this can save a lot of money. We have to pay for donor sperm anyway -- which is not cheap! -- so we chose to go with the higher success rate of professional help + IUI.

I'm not sure why it's so surprising to OP that inserting sperm into the vagina can cause a pregnancy.

ansi29 · January 2012

kellyrn9956:
Um. Yes. There are kits for at-home insemination for lesbian couples. They don't use a turkey baster, and many would probably be insulted at the insinuation of that.

I you Kelly.

kayteebayb · January 2012

kellyrn9956:
Um. Yes. There are kits for at-home insemination for lesbian couples. They don't use a turkey baster, and many would probably be insulted at the insinuation of that.

I was thinking the same thing.

jayangel · January 2012

ball.and.chain:

kellyrn9956:
Um. Yes. There are kits for at-home insemination for lesbian couples. They don't use a turkey baster, and many would probably be insulted at the insinuation of that.

THANK YOU for that clarification Kellyrn! No one uses a turkey baster. They buy kits or they use needle-less syringes. Many lesbians prefer to do insems at home because it's less "clinical." If you're also using free sperm from a known donor, this can save a lot of money. We have to pay for donor sperm anyway -- which is not cheap! -- so we chose to go with the higher success rate of professional help + IUI.

I'm not sure why it's so surprising to OP that inserting sperm into the vagina can cause a pregnancy.

I was just lurking here, but I'm glad you replied. At home inseminations definitely can result in a pregnancy.

SParkman80 · January 2012

emikat:
I have lesbian friends that did this with a male friend donor. It works.

This. My lesbian friend has gotten pregnant twice from this method.

Nikko Blue · January 2012

jessuhmarie:
KNemo:
Wasn't there a thread like this on TB a while ago? I swear I have read this before.
There was a poster here that was doing this and her story seemed very, very similar. Roxianne or hisno1fan or one of those crazies called her out.

The story was that they were lesbians and their male friend agreed to help them out but only if he could watch them have sex. They weren't comfortable with the idea but they were going to let him. It was definitely mud. I think she copy/pasted from Baby Center or something.

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