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Archive for the ‘Egg Donation’ Category
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
An increasing number of childless Asian couples are travelling to India for fertility treatment because of a shortage of south Asian egg donors in the UK.
One couple who made the journey to India are 54-year-old Sunil and his wife Smita, 49 (their names have been changed) from the West Midlands.
Like one in six couples trying for a baby, the pair – a professional couple who married in their 40s – experienced problems conceiving. Their only hope of becoming parents is through IVF treatment using a donated egg.
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Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
It used to be that characters on popular television shows would find out in one episode that they’ve miscarried or can’t have children for one reason or another and in the next episode, they are adopting. Is any progress being made?
It was frustrating that they didn’t cover treating infertility or they treated it so lightly that no one could really grasp how all-encompassing the process truly is, but it may be changing for the better.
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
CNN- With egg freezing, women can use their own banked eggs later in life to effectively rewind their biological clock, becoming mothers in their 40s, 50s and beyond. It’s a technological game changer that just might allow women to defy the notion that they can’t have it all. Read this thought provoking article which weighs the pros and cons of delaying familybuilding.
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Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Five years ago, Alice Crisci froze her eggs, knowing she could be left infertile after chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
Now, cancer-free and 10 weeks pregnant, Crisci is a passionate donor advocate and a vocal critic of a California law that some say has stymied fertility research. That law prohibits women from being compensated for donating their eggs for medical research, despite payments to subjects in other human research studies.
Women can be compensated in cases where eggs are donated for fertility treatments, with industry guidelines suggesting payments of $5,000 to $10,000.
Few women voluntarily go through the invasive and time-consuming procedure without compensation, leading to a shortage of healthy oocytes, commonly called eggs, for research.
That could change under a recently introduced bill that would allow women to be compensated for their time, trouble and inconvenience when donating eggs for research.
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
Texas–”How special are you?” Juliet Pearrell asks her 4-year-old daughter, Emma.–
“Part of it was Aunt Jen, then Daddy, a whole lot of God and then Mommy did the rest,” Emma says, explaining how her life began.
Emma’s life is special indeed: Her aunt, Jen Kimble, donated an egg to her sister, Juliet, to allow Juliet and her husband to have their own child after years of unsuccessfully trying to conceive.
The bond they share from this process is only the beginning of trying to make up for lost time.
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Friday, August 10th, 2012
Mara Kofoed was not always hopeful about having kids. When she first started trying for children in 2004, and learned that she had fertility issues, her life seemed full of fear and anxiety. She worried she’d never have children.
Kofoed is one of the 7.4 percent — 2.1 million — of married women aged 15-44 who are infertile, according to the Center for Disease Control. Infertility is defined as trying for pregnancy for 12 consecutive months without success. The study also shows 7.3 million women in this age bracket, or 11.8 percent, struggle with impaired fecundity, or the diminished ability to have children. While there are multiple medical options and remedies for women and men struggling with infertility, there is also a nationwide push toward often neglected emotional and spiritual treatments.
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
‘I kept thinking, there’s a couple out there whose lives I could change’
Suzanne and Mark Harper couldn’t conceive, so they turned to IVF. Their daughter, Libby, was born after eight cyles. During the treatment, Suzanne decided to donate her eggs to help others.
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
B.J. Holt always wanted to be a dad. As he approached 40, with no life partner in sight, he felt a version of the ticking biological clock.
“The ‘having the children thing’ started to overwhelm the desire to have the relationship first,” Holt says. “They sort of switched on me.”
So Holt decided to go it alone. A few years ago, he used an egg donor and a surrogate to create a family of his own.
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
I wanted to share a (timeless) heartwarming success story of one of our Intended Dads who became a father with the help of The Donor SOURCE & The Surrogacy SOURCE:
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) – Eight-month-old Santino Stavrikikis is impossibly cute. But the story of how he came to be is extraordinary.
Santino’s dad, 50-year-old Dino Stavrikikis runs a popular pizza parlor on Fillmore Street in San Francisco. He’s a confirmed bachelor with no plans to marry.
But he really wanted a son
So Stavrikikis looked for parenthood in a Petri dish. He would need two women, one for her eggs, and the other to carry his baby.
“The hard part was at the beginning, I wasn’t that internet savvy. But once I got a grip on it I was so determined,” Stavrikikis said.
It’s a complex way to make a baby, but it’s happening more often than in the past. Success rates are way up.
“Pregnancy rates have gone from 5–10 percent to now maybe 60-70 percent,” said Dr. Carl Herbert of the Pacific Fertility Center.
The key to success is a good egg.
Stavrikikis used ‘The Donor Source’ to find an egg. It’s a service that screens and lists women who will give up eggs for a fee.
For Stavrikikis, it wasn’t easy an easy pick.
“They could be pretty, but they could be crazy too. I’m already crazy. I don’t need another crazy one running around. I asked her questions – her sleep patterns, what she liked as a baby. I was shooting for the happiest and healthiest kid,” said Stavrikikis.
Read more here: “>http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/11/16/san-francisco-man-takes-extraordinary-steps-to-have-son/
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Modern Family star Sophia Vergara has revealed she is thinking about freezing her eggs so she can have a child with her partner Nick Loeb as she approaches 40.
The model and actress already has a grown-up son from her first marriage to her childhood sweetheart Joe Gonzalez in the early 90s.
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