In season five episode three, "The Accurate Conception," Blanche's daughter Rebecca pays her a visit and drops the bomb that she's ready to have a child and has decided to be artificially inseminated. Trying to wrap their head around the idea, the girls go to visit a sperm bank to get more information on the process. Hard to understand why Becky doesn't want to conceive a baby the old-fashioned way, the episode ends with Blanche accepting Becky's choice of starting a family the way she wants.