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Archive for May, 2012
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Twenty-five years after the landmark Baby M case focused international attention on the rights of surrogate mothers in New Jersey, state lawmakers are poised to consider a new measure that would allow residents to formally contract with — and pay — women to carry a donated embryo to term.
The move has rekindled the kind of emotional reactions that were so much a part of the Baby M controversy, with backers of the bill and its opponents scrambling to press their arguments before a vote in the state Senate on Thursday.
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
China: Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist whose escape from a rural village set off a diplomatic tug of war between Beijing and Washington, arrived in the United States last Saturday on the United Airlines flight from Beijing to Newark. The events surrounding Chen’s escape from house arrest, his arrival at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, and the subsequent negotiations that led to his departure for the United States once again shined the global spotlight on China’s one-child policy.
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Another article on the intriguing new trend of parents contributing emotionally and financially to secure the reproductive futures of their daughters.
New York Times: At the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine, a popular destination for women hoping to preserve their fertility by freezing their eggs, Dr. William Schoolcraft, the founder and medical director, has started to notice something different: more of the women are arriving with company.
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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/
Tags: Dino Stavrikikis, Dr. Carl Herbert, Egg Donation, egg donor, fatherhood, intended father, Pacific Fertility Center, parenthood, Santino Stavrikikis, single father, surrogacy, surrogacy agency, The Donor SOURCE, The Surrogacy SOURCE
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Coming Tuesdays this Fall on NBC! Looks incredible, can’t wait!!
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
There are a lot of reasons not to freeze your eggs. It involves shooting yourself up with loads of hormones. Your chances of success are greatest if you freeze your eggs young, but it costs between $8,000 and $18,000, according to the New York Times, which many women in their late 20s and early 30s don’t have lying around. That’s very expensive insurance for a backup plan you may not need — after all, you don’t know how fertile you will or won’t be until you start trying. And if you do end up needing to use those eggs, they may not lead to a pregnancy. According to CNN, if you freeze your eggs between ages 32 and 35, you have a 40 to 50 percent chance of a successful pregnancy.
How would the equation change if your parents were willing to foot part or all of the bill for the procedure?
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Fertility SOURCE Companies (The Donor SOURCE & The Surrogacy SOURCE) would like to shout out a BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Richard Scott of RMA NJ – for receiving the Prestigious Medical Achievement Award From Bonei Olam.
The award recognizes Scott’s contributions to the Bonei Olam mission and his significant achievements in reproductive medicine. Bonei Olam is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to helping Jewish couples overcome the challenges of infertility. The award was presented at Bonei Olam’s Annual Boro Park Dinner on May 6, 2012
(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120509/NY04206 )
“The Medical Achievement Award demonstrates our appreciation for Dr. Scott and his entire team at RMANJ and RMA Genetics. Bonei Olam has a close working relationship with RMANJ, and we have many patients in New Jersey who utilize their services,” said Chaim Jalas, Director of Genetics Resources & Co-Director Patient Services. “RMANJ’s cutting edge work has advanced the science in the field of reproductive medicine and helped to advance the cause of Bonei Olam.”
“I am honored to accept this award on behalf of the entire RMANJ team. Like Bonei Olam, we are dedicated to helping couples achieve their dream of parenthood,” said Dr. Scott. “In addition to having among the highest IVF success rates in the country, the team at RMANJ is keenly aware that everyone’s pathway to parenthood is unique and we work hard to address each patient’s particular needs.”
Added Dr. Eli Rybak from RMANJ’s Englewood office, “The team at RMANJ is sensitive to the many different cultural and religious needs of our patients and makes every accommodation possible to ensure that they are met. Specifically, we offer on-site Hashgacha upon request, and our physicians are eager and always available to speak with Rabbonim and Dayonim in the community to assure world-class treatment that is also rigorously Al Pi Halacha.”
About Bonei Olam Bonei Olam is an international organization dedicated to helping couples overcome the challenge of infertility. Bonei Olam is one of the leading agencies providing referrals for infertility related issues. Bonei Olam has built a rapport with the leading doctors and centers providing their clients the latest advances in diagnosis and treatment.
About Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey have pioneered and successfully implemented a cutting-edge technology, known as Comprehensive Chromosome Screening (CCS) to more accurately detect healthy embryos that will lead to successful pregnancies and ultimately healthy babies. Other centers have attempted similar testing methods, but RMANJ is the only fertility center in the world to have developed a system of unprecedented accuracy, fully validated through years of rigorous clinical research. RMANJ’s Comprehensive Chromosome Screening offers advanced embryo selection with extreme accuracy by detecting and avoiding use of embryos with chromosomal abnormalities prior to transfer and pregnancy.
The fertility experts at RMANJ have among the highest IVF success rates in the country. Since 1999, they have helped bring more than 20,000 babies to loving families. In addition to serving as the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ, the practice has six locations in New Jersey. For more information please call RMANJ at 973-656-2089, or visit www.rmanj.com.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/05/09/4478191/dr-richard-scott-of-rmanj-receives.html#storylink=cpy
Tags: fertility, Fertility SOURCE companies, infertility, IVF, RMA NJ, RMANJ, The Donor SOURCE, The Surrogacy SOURCE
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012 is — Mother’s Day. Unlike Valentine’s Day, which focuses on the couple, this commercialized day can be one of the hardest days for a woman coping with infertility.
“Mother’s Day can be a double whammy,” says Andrea Mechanick Braverman, Ph.D., a Pennsylvania health psychologist who specializes in infertility counseling. “Another anniversary of a year gone by without a baby — and a holiday that specifically excludes you”
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Sunday, May 6th, 2012
PORTLAND, Maine —
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday unanimously ruled that District Court judges may determine the parentage of a child born to a surrogate mother when the parties agree on whom the legal parents should be.
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
For most mothers, there is no event in life bigger than giving birth to a child. Charity Lovas has given birth to eight children, yet only three of those children are her own.
It all began in 2002, when she and her family were living in Indianapolis. She says she was reading the Sunday newspaper and spotted an ad for ovum donors. She had never heard about it. She was curious.
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