Thursday, April 12, 2007

Make-A-Baby Kit

The FDA has approved the first home conception kit. The kit is currently available for $300 with a doctor's prescription. It includes eight ovulation predictors, a conception cap - a flexible cup-like receptacle that is placed over the cervix, a non-latex "semen collector" (actually a condom), a pregnancy test kit, a conception wheel to help plan when the baby will be born, a journal, and an instruction manual.

The main aspect of the kit is the conception cap, which helps bring the sperm in contact with the cervix, thus much likelier to conceive. The one problem though, is that placing this cap can be difficult as each woman's cervix is angled differently from the diagram.

The kit will be most helpfulwho need lessons in predicting ovulation, or in an instance where the man isn't fertile and they choose to find their own donor rather than use expensive fertility procedures, or perhaps in the case of a lesbian couple who have a donor in mind. This obviously can become quite controversial.

Source:
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/

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