Irvine, California – March 14, 2012 – Steve Masler, CEO of Fertility SOURCE Companies, (The Donor SOURCE and The Surrogacy SOURCE), together with owners/managers of three other agencies, has founded an association of egg donation and surrogacy agencies whose purpose is to develop and codify ethical standards for third party reproduction. The association, which initially includes only agencies from Southern California will eventually be national in membership and scope.
Archive for March, 2012
Fertility SOURCE Companies Helps to Form
“Surrogacy & Egg Donation Ethics Society” (SEDES)
Friday, March 30th, 2012
Britain’s First Gay Dads Planning Sixth Surrogate Baby
Thursday, March 29th, 2012Britain’s first gay dads, Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow, plan to expand their family with a sixth surrogate child.
The couple made history in 1999 when they became the UK’s first gay fathers to twins (a girl and a boy named Aspen and Saffron), through a surrogate mother.
Since the birth of their twins, the couple went on to have another son Orlando, 8, and twin boys Dallas and Jasper, 2.
However, the couple are now planning on expanding their brood – and want to use embryo sex selection to ensure they conceive a baby girl.
Kim Kardashian Gets Offer to Be a Surrogate for Sherri Shepherd
Monday, March 26th, 2012During an appearance on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’, Sherri jokes that she’d give Kim ‘some perfume and a free wig for a year’ if the reality star agrees to carry her baby.
Kim Kardashian is wanted as a surrogate mother. Sherri Shepherd, one of “The View” co-hosts, made a proposition to Kim to carry her baby when she stopped by “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on Wednesday, March 21, the same night the estranged wife of Kris Humphries made an appearance on the show.
UK: Surrogacy mother launches maternity leave challenge
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012A mother who had a baby through a surrogate has launched landmark legal action for the right to paid maternity leave.
She is suing her employer, alleging sex and maternity discrimination, and has taken her case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to decide whether the British laws comply with European Union directives, which could force a change in the rules. The court is expected to make a decision later this year.
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Hoping to start a Modern Family: Sofia Vergara reveals she may freeze her eggs
Thursday, March 15th, 2012Modern 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.
Freeze My Eggs? Why I Did It.
Monday, March 12th, 2012Blog:
I come home to my apartment after work to an unlikely scene: boxes of fertility drugs strewn everywhere and a biohazard sharps container on my desk. Every morning, I go to a clinic where my blood is drawn and my estrogen rates calculated. When I wake up, I give myself an injection in the stomach. In the evening, I get two more — wherever I can find a spot that isn’t tender. Blood goes to the lab, hormones go in my body.
In the past five days, my estrogen levels have gone up almost 700%. The doctors are all very happy that I am responding so well. Each day for the past six days, I undergo an ultrasound where they track the daily growth of the follicles in my uterus, each one containing a single cell known as an egg. Currently, I have 14. I feel oddly proud of my fertility.
Martha Stewart becomes second-time grandmother through surrogacy
Sunday, March 11th, 2012Martha Stewart has once again become a grandmother.
Martha’s daughter Alexis Stewart welcomed a baby son named Truman via a surrogate mother this week, according to People.
Truman is reported to be healthy and resting comfortably with his mother Alexis.
Alexis previously had daughter Jude with the aid of a surrogate mother nearly one year ago on March 10, 2011.
Israeli moms won’t have to adopt babies born to surrogates
Thursday, March 8th, 2012A Tel Aviv Family Court judge set a legal precedent this week when she ruled that a woman whose eggs were used in the surrogate birth of her child is the baby’s legal mother. DNA testing will be used to prove maternity. Previously, women who used gestational surrogates had to adopt their own children.
The ruling was issued by Judge Shifra Glick in a case involving a woman whose identity was not revealed and is referred to as “N.”
A fond farewell to most important animal kingdom “surrogate”
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012Toola, the female sea otter who inspired state legislation to better protect her species and was a pioneer in surrogate motherhood for stranded pups, died Saturday of natural causes and age-related ill-health, according to Monterey Bay Aquarium officials. She was about 15 or 16 years old.
Considered by aquarium officials as “the most important animal” in the history of the facility’s 28-year Sea Otter Research and Conservation program, Toola suffered from neurological disorders, thought to be caused by exposure to the toxoplasmosis parasite. The condition, which caused seizures and required Toola to take anti-convulsion medication, prevented her release back into the wild, officials said.
“It’s a real problem to try to give sea otters oral medication,” said Dr. Mike Murray, the aquarium veterinarian. But Toola defied that notion.
Robert De Niro’s wife Grace Hightower keeps surrogate daughter undercover as she steps out with bundle of joy for first time
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012In December last year it emerged that Robert De Niro had become a father again at the age of 68.
And yesterday the actor’s wife Grace Hightower was seen stepping out with their daughter Helen Grace in New York yesterday.
The 56-year-old was seen carrying the little girl in a grey and lilac stroller, but she kept her bundle of joy covered up.
