These are some strong swimmers...woman buys sperm online and what follows is a miracle...

Not all mothers use the conventional method of getting pregnant, not all of them need to. With the advancement in medicine, it is possible for you not to be physical with the opposite sex to get impregnated. 

This was the case for a woman in the United Kingdom. She wanted a second child and after splitting up with her partner, she didn't want that to be the end of her being a mother to another child. The price of fertility clinics are hefty so it wasn't really a choice for her.

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A friend of hers recommended an app called, Just a Baby, and she decided to try it out. The app allows you to order live sperm. She specified what it is she wanted, "a family-orientated man with no history of serious illnesses, and insisted that the ideal candidate would be someone similar to her so that the child would look like her older son, Frankie." (News24)

It was as if it was all meant to be as she found a match within a day and a few weeks later the sperm was delivered to her doorstep. 

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"Taylor then purchased a home insemination kit on eBay and learned how to use it by watching YouTube tutorials. She used the sample to inseminate herself, and two weeks later she was pregnant - on her first attempt. Nine months later she gave birth to her baby Eden whom she describes as a 'miracle' and a 'real online baby.'" (News24)

And to think it all happened using technology! The internet is the hero here in this mother becoming a mom to a second child.

How does it all work in South Africa?

"The Aevitas Fertility Clinic in Cape Town offers frozen sperm for home insemination via their Aevitas Sperm Bank. Patients are first asked to complete a psychological test before selecting a preferred donor based on options such as 'race', 'hair colour', 'eye colour' and 'blood group'." (News24)

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The sperm comes in straws and are stored on dry ice, this is the safest way to store the sperm until insemination takes place. When the female is ready then she will eject the sperm into her cervical area through the means of a syringe and a catheter. 

"With the donor sperm costing R4000, and related expenses adding up, the costs can come to around R8000 per attempt." (News24)

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