Therapeutic donor insemination; a review of 440 cases.

Of 399 patients inseminated therapeutically with the semen of a donor, 303 became pregnant, the great majority of them within six months of the time inseminations were begun. The average number of inseminations was 6.2 and the average number of menstrual cycles over which they were carried out was 3.55. The greatest number of pregnancies occurred between the twelfth and the fifteenth day of the menstrual cycle. Seven patients had four pregnancies by this method, 17 had three and 59 had two. Emotional problems related to children of artificial insemination were far fewer than those associated with adoption.