Your Journey Starts Here:
Fertility Partnership has been helping LGBTQ+ couples create loving families for over 25 years. We know that LGBTQ+ couples face unique fertility circumstances that require expert and affirming care. Whether you’re a lesbian couple seeking a sperm donor, a gay couple searching for an egg donor/gestational carrier, or a transgender prospective parent, Fertility Partnership offers a full range of fertility services to meet LGBTQ+ family building goals.
Our clinic proudly serves the LGBTQ+ community throughout the Midwest. Schedule your consult today.
What Services Do We Offer?
Under the leadership of Dr. Elan Simckes, Fertility Partnership offers a state-of-the-art laboratory and the latest cutting edge protocols.
Treatment Options Include:
- Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
- In vitro fertilization (IVF)
- Invocell
- Controlled ovulation induction (COI)
- Frozen embryo transfer (FET)
- Donor egg and donor sperm
- Fertility preservation
Family Building For Lesbian Women
Lesbian couples most often seek our services as a means of enabling both women to participate in the family building process. Fertility Partnership works with trusted sperm banks and will help you select a donor that is right for you.
- Sperm donor insemination treatment into one or both women partners.
- IVF or Invocell using the eggs of one partner, donor sperm, and the placement of the embryo into the other partner, known as Reciprocal IVF or Reciprocal Invocell.
- IVF using the eggs of one partner, donor sperm, and the placement of the embryo into a surrogate.
- IVF using donor eggs, donor sperm, and the placement of the embryo into one partner.
- IVF using donor eggs, donor sperm, and the placement of the embryo into a gestational carrier.
- IVF using eggs from both partners and donor sperm with the embryo being implanted into one partner.
Family Building for Gay Men
The most common fertility treatment for gay male couples involves assistance utilizing their own sperm, an egg donor, and a gestational carrier. As with heterosexual couples, we recommend male fertility testing to ensure that both males’ reproductive organs function properly. Fertility testing can also help ensure that a man’s sperm is a viable match for a particular woman’s egg.
At Fertility Partnership, we have nearly three decades of experience helping couples of all sexual orientations build healthy families.
Our clinic can also aid male couples in finding a suitable female egg, either through someone they know, an egg donor agency, or a cryopreservation egg bank. Dr. Simckes can then guide the couple through the process of using one or both partners’ sperm during IVF to fertilize a donor egg and create embryos. An embryo will then be implanted into the uterus of a carefully selected gestational carrier.
Family Building for Transgender Men and Women
Our fertility services can serve the needs of any member of the LGBTQ community. Transgender men and women can benefit from the procedures listed above. Most family building goals can be addressed using some combination of sperm and/or egg donors, gestational carrier, IVF, or artificial insemination. We can also cryopreserve sperm and eggs prior to any transition or hormone replacement therapies. We have many years of experience helping couples of all sexual orientations build healthy families.
Schedule Your Family Building Consultation Today
Fertility Partnership is committed to helping the LGBTQ+ community. To schedule your family building consultation, contact our office online or call today!
