What is it like to spend nine-plus months carrying someone else’s baby? How can you not get attached to the baby growing inside you? How can you talk yourself through morning sickness, swollen ankles and back pain when you don’t get the ultimate payoff of holding your own precious baby when all is said and done?
I was very fortunate to speak [...]
Tags: Adoption, IVF, miscarriage, Mother, Pregnancy, surrogacy, surrogate
Posted in: Pregnancy
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It used to be said that a mom is always sure it’s her child but a man’s paternity can always be questioned. Not anymore.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of embryos are implanted into women’s wombs during in vitro fertilization (IVF). What are the chances that an embryo is implanted in a womb where it isn’t [...]
Tags: embryo mix up, in-vitro fertilization, IVF, surrogacy, Surrogate mothers, unintended surrogacy
Posted in: Current Events, Pregnancy
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Alas, the Brits have done it again! They gave the world the first IVF baby (the called test-tube baby) more than 30 years ago. Last year, they presented the first “breast-cancer-free” baby. And now, here’s their latest coup: the first egg-screening baby.
Welcome Oliver, the first baby ever produced using Array Comparative Genomic Hybridisation (Array [...]
Tags: Array CGH, egg screen, embryo, ethics, human egg, IVF, Oliver
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Almost three years ago, Maria del Carmen Bousada gave birth to twins, setting the record as the oldest mother ever at age 66. This record was broken by Rajo Devi Lohan of India last year who gave birth for the first time at the ancient age of 70. However, Bousada is still the oldest mom [...]
Tags: fertility treatments, IVF, Maria del Carmen Bousada, oldest mom, orphans, Twins
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Great Britain is trying to come to grips with the extremes of parenthood – first the 13-year father (Alfie) and now the 66-year mother Elizabeth Adeney.
Elizabeth shocked the country when she decided to have a child at the advanced age of 66 – when most women of her age are easing into retirement and coping [...]
Tags: 66-year old, age, controversy, IVF, maternal age
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