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Archive for the ‘infertility’ Category
Monday, May 20th, 2013
Even as the demand for surrogate births is increasing the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice remain undecided on whether to allow such births under the law. The rate of infertile couples is increasing drastically in the country. As per a Ministry survey, 7.7 percent of Vietnamese couples or one million couples are struggling with infertility.
Tu Du Maternity Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City receives an average of 200-300 patients everyday for infertility tests and treatment, while it was ten cases just 10 years ago
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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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Sunday, May 12th, 2013
When hit songwriter and former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi and husband Mike McCuddy welcomed son Greyson James Carroll via gestational surrogate in January, it was a dream come true for the couple following five years of heartbreaking fertility issues.
But that’s only part of her story. Read the article
Tags: infertility, PGD, surrogacy, Surrogacy. surrogate mother, surrogate mothers, trying to conceive
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Saturday, April 27th, 2013
Huffington Post- There are many misconceptions about the dollars & cents involved in third-party reproduction. Treating infertility can be both expensive and emotionally difficult for couples in need. Surrogates and egg donors weigh in on joys and the obstacles. Check out this segment that covers the various perspectives of the experience, parent, surrogate and donor.
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Bombshell Halle Berry dropped a bombshell of her own recently. The 46-year-old actress, the first African American to win a Best Actress Academy Award (for Monster’s Ball in 2002), announced she Berry, who has said she has type 1 diabetes, has a daughter, Nahla, 5, from a previous relationship. She is expecting her second child with fiancée Olivier Martinez, who is 47.
“I feel fantastic,” the former Bond girl told CNN. “This has been the biggest surprise of my life, to tell you the truth. Thought I was kind of past the point where this could be a reality for me.”
Berry’s happy news has been a surprise to some infertility experts, as well. It’s caused one to issue this caution to the woman on the street: “We don’t want the 38-year-old woman deferring childbearing to take this as proof that they can easily conceive naturally in years to come,” says Joshua U. Klein, MD, medical director of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York-Brooklyn.
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Monday, April 15th, 2013
(LONDON) — Robert Edwards, a Nobel laureate from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87. Read about the history of this notable figure in reproductive health.
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Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
As donors and surrogates make things potentially more complicated to explan, picture books remain eloquent ways of helping kids understand where they came from.
Behold the miracle of life — the swimming sperm, the blooming cells, and quite often the parental dread when it’s time to tell the kids how it all starts. Fortunately, picture books have long been around to ease The Talk, like Peter Mayle’s 1973 classic, Where Did I Come From? which stars a rotund cartoon couple in the buff and clarifies that “vagina” rhymes with “Carolina.” As in most such books of its ilk, the story essentially boils down to this: A man and woman love each other very much and lock genitals as an expression of their affection. Sperm meets egg and the woman’s tummy grows until — voila! — a baby.
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Monday, March 25th, 2013
In an interview in the April issue of Vogue magazine, “Modern Family” actress Sofia Vergara revealed that she is not only interested in having more kids, she is freezing her eggs in order to do so. Vergara, 40, who already has a 21-year-old son, told the publication, “They want to get as many good eggs as they can because usually you produce them but they’re not good. They have to be perfect, perfect, perfect ones.” Vergara noted that, “My boyfriend [Nick Loeb] is 37, younger than me, never had kids.”
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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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