The treatments: Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
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Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
Suitable for: Women for whom superovulation alone hasn't worked; mild to moderate factor male infertility; unexplained infertility; PCOS; if using donor sperm.
What happens? You take superovulatory drugs and have ultrasound scans to track the development of your eggs. Once your eggs are mature, you will be given a shot of the hormone HCG to trigger ovulation; you usually have the IUI performed the day after. Your partner produces a semen sample and, an hour later, you'll have it inseminated into the uterus - this takes about 10 minutes and is pretty painless.
Private cost: Around £500, plus the cost of any superovulatory drugs.
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