Artificial Insemination (AI) is an assisted reproduction technique where once the moment of ovulation has arrived, capacitated semen is deposited in the vagina to achieve gestation. The result obtained is little more than a directed coitus.
If we are dealing with AI without ovarian stimulation, we have no way of controlling whether ovulation is unique or not. In most cases, treatment is prescribed to achieve ovarian stimulation and this does encourage multiple ovulation.
In AI only sperm is deposited at the right time. Therefore, answering the question of whether it is possible to ovulate twice in an AI cycle and if ovarian stimulation is performed for it, double ovulation may be more frequent.
The only alternative to avoid this circumstance is to perform in vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the laboratory and culture the embryos until the blastocyst stage. In this way, we control the embryos generated in the laboratory and we always transfer - unless expressly indicated by the patient - a single embryo. In conclusion, AI does offer the possibility of multiple gestation, IVF does not.
