Austin Fertility / Westlake IVF, Merry Christmas! We hope you enjoy celebrating together with friends and family. We are very grateful for your work in helping us receive two of our most cherished gifts, our sons. Love you all!
At Austin Fertility and Reproductive Medicine, we believe in and provide access to family building options regardless of gender and/or sexual orientation. After a consultation with one of our health care providers, the best plan will be tailored to cater for the patient(s)’ needs. Family building options include:
Donor sperm can be used for same-sex female couples, single female patients, or patients struggling with male infertility. Donor sperm can be from an anonymous source obtained from a sperm bank, or from a known donor.
Donor sperm can be used for intrauterine inseminations (IUI) or in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The sperm is acquired before ovulation induction and is thawed on the day of insemination. Sperm parameters are evaluated prior to insemination. The sample is then deposited in the uterus, near the fallopian tubes. Sperm cells then travel through the tubal ostia to meet the ova (egg). Fertilization occurs in the fallopian tubes.
Sperm donors, whether known (identified) or anonymous (unidentified), are screened and tested in accordance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance.
Donor eggs can be used for same-sex female/male couples, single female/male patients, or patients struggling with female infertility. Options include the use of frozen donor eggs or fresh donor eggs, which can be from an anonymous (unidentified) egg donor or known (identified) egg donor. Frozen donor oocytes are most commonly obtained from an egg bank and fresh donor oocytes are most commonly obtained from a donor egg agency or known (identified) egg donor. In IVF cases for same-sex males, an egg donor and a gestational carrier are able to help build the couple’s family.
Egg donors, whether anonymous (unidentified) or known (identified), are screened and tested in accordance with FDA guidance.
Donor embryos can be used for all couples. Donor embryos can be used for same-sex couples, single female patients, or patients struggling with female and/or male infertility. Donor embryos can be obtained from donor embryo agencies.
The agency will provide records for clinic review.
A gestational carrier is an option for same-sex male patients or female patients with recurrent pregnancy loss, intrauterine adhesions, recurrent implantation failure, history of surgical uterine removal (hysterectomy), or the less common congenital absence of the uterus. Gestational carriers are carefully selected, and it is one of the more complex aspects of fertility care as safety of the intended parents, the future offspring, and the gestational carrier needs to be optimized and upheld. Gestational carriers can be found from an agency or someone the parent(s) select that will undergo testing.
Gestational carriers are carefully selected using both FDA guidance and ASRM recommendations.
Reciprocal IVF is a process in which same-sex female couples go through an IVF cycle involving one female partner undergoing ovarian stimulation to retrieve eggs, which can be fertilized by donor sperm to form embryos, and the other female partner subsequently undergoes an embryo transfer and carries the pregnancy. It is a way that both partners can be very intimately involved in the pregnancy.
Austin Fertility / Westlake IVF, Merry Christmas! We hope you enjoy celebrating together with friends and family. We are very grateful for your work in helping us receive two of...
Austin Fertility / Westlake IVF, Merry Christmas! We hope you enjoy celebrating together with friends and family. We are very grateful for your work in helping us receive two of our most cherished gifts, our sons. Love you all!
Dr. Shahryar Kavoussi & Austin Fertility Team, thank you so much for your care and compassion over the years! We are overjoyed to announce that our last embryo transfer was...
Dr. Shahryar Kavoussi & Austin Fertility Team, thank you so much for your care and compassion over the years! We are overjoyed to announce that our last embryo transfer was a success & we welcomed a healthy baby boy in October of this year. We truly could not have made it to this joyful moment without your kind care & support! We will call soon to set up a meet & greet with our baby boy and yourselves at the Westlake office soon.
AFRM-Westlake IVF, thank you all for everything that you do. Thank you for always being so welcoming and kind! This team is great and as patients, we couldn’t ask for...
AFRM-Westlake IVF, thank you all for everything that you do. Thank you for always being so welcoming and kind! This team is great and as patients, we couldn’t ask for more. Thank you Sarah & Amy for always taking care of me through my many spirals. Your love and compassion really got me through! Keep being great!
Can’t say enough about my experience with Dr. Parviz Kavoussi as my surgeon for a delicate operation on a seriously engorged spermatocele. Did a LOT of searching to find a...
Can’t say enough about my experience with Dr. Parviz Kavoussi as my surgeon for a delicate operation on a seriously engorged spermatocele. Did a LOT of searching to find a surgeon who specializes in this unique surgery (most docs seem to focus on the more routine services for men (i.e. vasectomy, kidney stones, bladder, etc.). Dr. Kavoussi literally wrote the book on this procedure (yes, the whole section in a major Urology treatise dealing with this procedure). Talk about a great guy too. Wonderful demeanor, sense of humor, gave me all the time I needed to ask a litany of questions with no hint of rushing me through or not listening to and addressing my concerns. On the day of surgery, he had an amazing staff (most all have been with him for many years) and the team works super-well together and made me feel so comfortable about every aspect of the surgery.
I can’t recommend this man enough for any man needing urological services that would require surgery. He’s confident, ridiculously knowledgeable in his field, and a true gentleman to boot! Thanks doc – for a job well done. You’ve made my day-to-day living so much more comfortable and enjoyable.
Dr. Kavoussi and his staff are the best!!! Amanda Duran went above and beyond to resolve my issue and made sure that I was well taken care of!!! I recommend...
Dr. Kavoussi and his staff are the best!!! Amanda Duran went above and beyond to resolve my issue and made sure that I was well taken care of!!! I recommend without reservation!!!
Dr. Kavoussi is a master in his craft. Hands down the best urologist in Austin / no scalpel vasectomy.
...Dr. Kavoussi is a master in his craft. Hands down the best urologist in Austin / no scalpel vasectomy.
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