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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Celebrity parents Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker have welcomed two new additions to their family, two baby girls. According to reports online the surrogate who was carrying their twins gave birth on Tuesday morning. The two bundles of joy were born at East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry. Reports indicate that the happy [...]
Tags: celebrity, celebrity parents, celebrity twins, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker, surrogacy, surrogate moms
Posted in: Birth Announcement, Celebrities
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It’s every mother’s worst nightmare: losing a child.
On April 5, that’s what happened to Missy Evans when her son, Nikolas, died. He had been hit in a street fight about a week earlier in a town near Dallas, Texas.. But the punch knocked him to the ground, and Nikolas, 21, hit his head.
Thus ended Nikolas’s [...]
Tags: Dallas, Missy Evans, Nikolas Evans, surrogacy, surrogate moher
Posted in: News, Parenting
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Back in August I blogged about the increase in numbers of women trying to sell their eggs to make money. The economy was faltering back then, and now we are in a recession, even more women are considering other means to make money.
Selling eggs can net a woman a quick $4,000, and being a surrogate [...]
Tags: donating eggs, India, Outsourcing, recession, surrogacy, Surrogate mothers
Posted in: Pregnancy, TTC
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