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Archive for 2012
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
Hugh Jackman talks parenthood on Tuesday’s episode of “Katie.”
Last week, an emotionally raw Hugh Jackman told Scott Pelley on “60 Minutes” that he was abandoned by his mother at the tender age of 8. Now the “Les Miserables” star is talking about his own turn at parenting — to Oscar, 12 and Ava, 7, both adopted.
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Tags: babies, parenthood, trying to conceive
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Sunday, December 9th, 2012
Norway: While loyal subjects in Britain celebrated a royal pregnancy, across the North Sea, in Norway, a very different kind of crown princess was being celebrated for her own brush with uterine politics. Princess Mette-Marit’s trip to India, posing as a nanny to care for the newborn surrogate twins of a gay courtier and his husband, has landed her in a very Norwegian royal row involving birth, morality, exploitation and what it means to be a parent.
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Tags: Gay Parenting, Men having babies, surrogacy, Surrogacy. surrogate mother, Surrogate Mother, third party reproduction, trying to conceive
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
When Anne-Marie Slaughter — Princeton professor, former Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. State Department, and mother of two — spoke to a mostly female crowd this past Monday night in D.C., she had this advice to young women entering the workplace and worried about the inevitable entanglement of personal and professional life: “Freeze your eggs.”
She brought up this idea in her article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” and it’s not as out-there as it sounds. While society is no closer to making it possible for women to delay their careers, the technology that enable us to put off having kids has already arrived. This October, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine transitioned egg freezing, or “oocyte cryopreservation,” away from the classification of “experimental.”
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Tags: egg donor, egg freezing, embryo freezing, infertility, trying to conceive
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Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
While women are often the first to undergo a battery of tests when conception is slow to happen, almost half of all infertility problems are directly attributed to the male. Low sperm count is the most common culprit, so analyzing sperm count is considered a key first step by infertility specialists. However, a new survey conducted for SpermCheck Fertility, the only FDA-approved at-home sperm count screening test, finds that only 17 percent of men ever get tested.
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Tags: fatherhood, Gay Parenting, infertility, intended father, Men having babies, single father, trying to conceive
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
The Pitch Perfect star and her husband of nine years, Max Handelman, welcomed their second child recently via surrogate, Banks announced on her website Nov. 14.
As 2012 winds down and Thanksgiving approaches, I have much for which to be thankful — personal, professional and Presidential,” Banks, 38, writes. “However, nothing can match the joy and excitement my husband and I felt when we recently welcomed our second baby boy, Magnus Mitchell Handelman.
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Tags: surrogacy, surrogacy agency, Surrogacy. surrogate mother, Surrogate Mother Matches, third party reproduction
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Thursday, October 25th, 2012
Unable to conceive, the New Jersey couple did what an increasing number of 21st-century parents have done: they got an egg from an anonymous donor, and made an agreement with another woman to carry the child for them.And knowing that there are any number of ways that having a child by surrogate can end in heartache, they tried to protect against it. They had the surrogate legally renounce her right to the child, and had a judge pre-emptively order that their names appear on the birth certificate.
But for all their efforts, their case has become an object lesson in how much modern babymaking has outpaced the law, leaving even the most careful would-be parents relying on little more than crossed fingers.
On Wednesday the New Jersey Supreme Court deadlocked over how to handle the wife’s plea to be named the mother of the child that she and her husband are raising, ending a lengthy legal battle while providing little new clarity. The state had sued, successfully, to strip the wife’s name from the birth certificate.
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Tags: fertility law, Surrogacy. surrogate mother, surrogate fathers, surrogate mothers, third party reproduction, trying to conceive
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Monday, October 22nd, 2012
Freezing human eggs can be successful in treating infertility — but guidelines issued Friday still urge caution for women hoping to pause a ticking biological clock.
Egg freezing had long been labeled experimental, but the American Society for Reproductive Medicine declared that’s no longer the case. The group cited studies that found younger women are about as likely to get pregnant if they used frozen-and-thawed eggs for their infertility treatment as if they used fresh ones.
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Tags: Egg Donation, egg donor compensation, egg freezing, infertility, trying to conceive
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2012
A Texas couple hope the auction of a one-of-a-kind football card will fund a final attempt at in vitro fertilization, a goal that the NFL Hall of Famer on the card fully supports.
Todd and Ula Nelkin of Houston have been trying to have a baby for several years. When they were unable to conceive naturally, they turned to IVF, but suffered two failed attempts.
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Tags: Egg Donation, fertility, Fertility SOURCE companies, IVF, third party reproduction, trying to conceive
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
For the first time, scientists have not only succeeded in making eggs, but using them in IVF to produce healthy young.
Experts describe the work as incredible and point out that the baby mice born as a result of the experiment went on to have pups of their own.
The breakthrough, from researchers who have already made sperm in a test-tube, could eventually allow women left infertile by treatment for cancer or by premature menopause ‘grow’ new eggs.
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
abies were on everyone’s mind on Sunday night’s Season 7 finale of Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Fans of the show were finally able to witness the birth of baby Penelope Disick, whom Kourtney Kardashian gave birth to back in July, and Khloe visited a fertility specialist to find out why she’s been unable to get pregnant.
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