Reciprocal IVF

This technique allows a couple formed by two women to share the process of In Vitro Fertilization in an active way, where one of them is the genetic mother who provides the egg for the baby and the other is the biological mother who carries the pregnancy.

What is the Shared motherhood?

What is the Shared motherhood?

Reciprocal IVF

In what cases is it indicated?

  • Same-sex female couples who wish to share motherhood and become active participants in the reproductive process, either by own choice and/or by other medical reasons concerning one of the partners, such as:
    • Alterations in oocyte quality
    • Absence of own oocytes
    • Absence or severe ovarian dysfunction
    • Risk of hereditary transmission of any disease
    • Chromosomal or genetic abnormalities
    • Failure of previous fertility treatments

Procedure

Shared motherhood is characterized by the fact that both women share the IVF process in an active way. One of them will be the genetic mother of the resulting child and the other and the second one the gestational mother.

Pharmacological treatment

Pharmacological treatment

Sperm Preparation

Sperm Preparation
Fertilization and Embryo Transfer

Fertilization and Embryo Transfer

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