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Posts Tagged ‘IVF’
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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Tags: fertility, infertility, IVF, third party reproduction
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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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Tags: Egg Donation, embryo donation, fertility, infertility, IVF, parents via egg donation, third party reproduction, trying to conceive
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Friday, March 22nd, 2013
The UK could be the first country to allow IVF babies to be created using DNA from three people.
This is currently illegal, but a UK fertility watchdog is lobbying health secretary Jeremy Hunt to lift the ban in order to stop a genetic defect.
Despite fears of ‘genetic engineering’ from some quarters, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has told the government there is no evidence three-person IVF is unsafe.
Lifting the ban would allow people with genetic mitochondiral disorders the hope of having a family.
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Monday, February 25th, 2013
Texas–”How special are you?” Juliet Pearrell asks her 4-year-old daughter, Emma.–
“Part of it was Aunt Jen, then Daddy, a whole lot of God and then Mommy did the rest,” Emma says, explaining how her life began.
Emma’s life is special indeed: Her aunt, Jen Kimble, donated an egg to her sister, Juliet, to allow Juliet and her husband to have their own child after years of unsuccessfully trying to conceive.
The bond they share from this process is only the beginning of trying to make up for lost time.
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
A few weeks ago, we posted some ideas of things that can be done in order to assist a friend or loved one facing infertility, but just as important is remembering what NOT to do. Here are some ideas.
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Tags: fertility, Fertility SOURCE companies, infertility, IVF, third party reproduction, trying to conceive
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
A study published in the September issue of the medical journal Cancer found that only 61 percent of women ages 18 to 40 were counseled on the risk of infertility because of cancer treatment. Just 4 percent pursued fertility preservation.
The study was based on 1,041 women diagnosed with five types of cancer — leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and breast and gastrointestinal cancers.
“Although awareness of fertility preservation has improved in the past decade, an unmet need remains for reproductive health counseling and fertility preservation in reproductive-age women diagnosed with cancer,” the report concluded.
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Tags: egg freezing, IVF, parenthood, 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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Thursday, August 23rd, 2012
The Senate is considering a bill that would expand medical benefits for severely injured service members so that they and their spouses or surrogates can have children through in vitro fertilization.
The Department of Veterans Affairs now covers a range of medical treatment for veterans, including some infertility care, but the legislation specifically authorizes the agency to cover IVF and to pay for procedures now provided for some critically injured active-duty soldiers.
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Tags: babies, fertility law, infertility, IVF, parents via egg donation, third party reproduction, trying to conceive
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
‘I kept thinking, there’s a couple out there whose lives I could change’
Suzanne and Mark Harper couldn’t conceive, so they turned to IVF. Their daughter, Libby, was born after eight cyles. During the treatment, Suzanne decided to donate her eggs to help others.
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Tags: babies, Egg Donation, egg donor, fertility, infertility, IVF, third party reproduction, trying to conceive
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
B.J. Holt always wanted to be a dad. As he approached 40, with no life partner in sight, he felt a version of the ticking biological clock.
“The ‘having the children thing’ started to overwhelm the desire to have the relationship first,” Holt says. “They sort of switched on me.”
So Holt decided to go it alone. A few years ago, he used an egg donor and a surrogate to create a family of his own.
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Tags: babies, egg donor, IVF, parenthood, single father, surrogate fathers, third party reproduction
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