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IUI is a simple fertility treatment that can be done with or without drugs. This procedure involves transferring washed semen directly into the uterus via a then catheter. Another common name for IUI is artificial insemination.

IVF is a procedure where a combination of medications are used with a surgical procedure to help sperm fertilize an egg, and help the fertilized egg implant in the uterus. 

• There is Traditional IVF where sperm is usually placed in a petri dish with the egg and fertilization occurs by the sperm swimming to the egg. 
• There is IVF with ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection). This is where a single sperm is injected directly into the cytoplasm of the egg for fertilization. 

Egg freezing also known as mature oocyte cryopreservation is a procedure to preserve a woman egg. This may be due to women wanting to postpone there pregnancy, women who may have a career, women with medical conditions or women trying to finish school.

When you are going through infertility many things can happen that stands in the way of conceiving a child. Their are other options to consider when your eggs, sperm and embryos are not of good quality. Some of these options include:

• Egg donation where eggs are donated from an  anonymous donor or a known donor.
• Sperm donation where a man donates semen to help an individual or a couple to conceive a baby
• Embryo donation is embryos that were created by individuals undergoing fertility treatments to be transferred to other infertile patients to help them achieve a pregnancy.

There are many options in regards to Adoption. You have domestic, international, open and closed adoption. When it comes to these different options it is very important for you as a couple or individual to do extensive research on which adoption decision you want to go with. 

• Domestic adoption is where there is a placement of US born infants for adoption by their birth parents who legally consent to the adoption with the adoptive family of their choosing.
• International adoption is where a individual or couple become permanent parents to a child that is a national of a foreign country.
• A closed adoption means that their is no contact whatsoever between the adoptive parents and the  birth parents after the adoption takes place.
• Open adoption means that all parties in the adoption meet and often remains in each other lives.

Surrogacy is an arrangement, often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman agrees to bear a child for another person or persons, who will become the child's parent after birth. There are two different types of surrogacy: 

• In traditional surrogacy a surrogate is artificially inseminated by the intended father or an anonymous donor and carries the baby to term. 
• In a gestational surrogacy an egg is removed from the intended mother or an anonymous donor and fertilized with the sperm of the intended father or anonymous donor.   The fertilized egg, or embryo, is then transferred to a surrogate who carries the baby to term.