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Vietnam deliberating on surrogate births

admin — Mon, 20 May 2013 17:50:00 +0000

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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Asian egg donor shortage in UK “forcing couples abroad”

admin — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:51:00 +0000

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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Article: Infertility and the media

admin — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:36:27 +0000

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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Kara DioGuardi: How My Cancer Gene Led Me to Surrogacy

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:36:26 +0000

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.

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Khloe Kardashian Says She Isn’t Struggling With Infertility: Hormones And Timing Have Been ‘Off’

admin — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:35:42 +0000

Khloe Kardashian has been unsuccessfully trying to have a baby for three and a half years, but she claims the reason she hasn’t gotten pregnant yet isn’t because of infertility issues.

The 28-year-old reality star, who is married to NBA star Lamar Odom, opens up about the difficulties she has encountered trying to get pregnant in the June 2013 issue of REDBOOK, admitting that she isn’t infertile, but that her hormones, as well as the timing have just been off and her busyschedule has prevented her from pursuing the proper hormonal treatments – and RadarOnline.com has the details.
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Why I Froze My Eggs

admin — Mon, 06 May 2013 23:29:41 +0000

Wall Street Journal–Amid all the talk about women “leaning in” and “having it all,” the conversation has left out perhaps the most powerful gender equalizer of all—the ability to control when we have children. The idea is tantalizing: Once you land the job and man you want, you can have your frozen eggs shipped to your fertility clinic, hand him a semen collection cup and be on your way to parenthood. You mitigate the risk of birth defects by using younger eggs, and you can carry a baby well into middle age. At a time when one in five American women between the ages of 40 and 44 is childless—and half say they would still like to have children—egg freezing offers a once-unimaginable reprieve.
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Careers and Egg Freezing

admin — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:02:31 +0000

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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Google Hangout- The Truth Behind Surrogacy and Egg Donation

admin — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:37:09 +0000

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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Halle Berry’s Pregnancy: The Real Deal on Fertility in Your 40s

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:34:33 +0000

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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Father of IVF Robert Edwards Passes Away

admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:28:08 +0000

(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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