The Portuguese Law allows women who wish to be mothers but do not have a male partner to use these techniques to fulfil their desire of having a family.
Depending on your age and the evaluation of your medical history, we may indicate one of the following treatments:
- Intrauterine insemination with donor sperm [know more]
- In vitro fertilisation with own oocytes and donor sperm [know more]
- In vitro fertilisation with donation of oocytes and donor sperm [know more]
- Shared motherhood [know more]
If you are trying to conceive and would like to have more information about the treatments made at Ferticentro, send us a query.
Finally, pregnant!
When, after months or even years of infertility treatments, couples get a positive result, the joy is huge. However, this is only the beginning. In this section we will try to talk about what happens next.
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Portuguese law provides that gametes donors (for spermatozoa and oocytes) are altruistic volunteers. Before being admitted as donors to Ferticentro, donor candidates are subject to a rigorous process of evaluation of their health and fertility, and those who are carriers of genetic disease or have a family history of this type of problem are excluded.
Ferticentro has a sperm bank and a bank of oocytes of its own, in which there are hundreds of samples of donors of different ethnic origins. This way, it is possible to assign a donor with physical characteristics as close as possible to those of the couple or receiving woman.
At Ferticentro we also work with international gametes banks with we liaise in situations where the patients have physical characteristics that are not so prevailent in the Portuguese population.
