April 2011

The Archives

• Donors, Egg Donation, Surrogacy

  Fertility SOURCE Companies Continues Rapid Growth with Record-Breaking First Quarter

  04.28.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Fertility SOURCE Companies, parent company of The Donor SOURCE, The Surrogacy SOURCE and Prospective Families, has announced record-breaking earnings for the first quarter of 2011. The financial growth of the company is reflected in a number of key areas. Fertility SOURCE Companies has doubled the size of its headquarters, expanded their professional team and dramatically [...]

• Infertility

  It’s National Infertility Awareness Week: April 24-30th

  04.27.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week…  a few common myths (and facts): Myth #1: It’s usually the woman’s problem. Reality: According to Dr. Domar, men are just as likely to have a problem that affects fertility. Her message: If you’re over 35 and have been trying to conceive for six months (or younger, but [...]

• Advocacy, Donors, Egg Donation, Events

  Successful LGBT Family Building Event

  04.25.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Thanks to all those who participated and made our LGBT Family Building Event so successful! The event was held on Tuesday, March 29th at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center in New York City. Guest Speakers were Dr. Susan Treiser, Co-Founder of IVF New Jersey, Jacqlyn Rough, Director of Business Development for Fertility [...]

• Surrogacy

  International Couples Come to the U.S. for Surrogacy

  04.24.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  No one tracks how many of the estimated 1,400 babies via surrogacy in the U.S. each year are for international parents, but one of the larger U.S. agencies, the Center for Surrogate Parenting in Encino, Calif., estimates that about half of its 104 births in 2010 were for international parents, the paper reports. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/24/report-international-couples-using-women-surrogates/#ixzz1KSyGhIu4

• Advocacy, Surrogacy

  Australian Mother Used a Surrogate; Won Landmark Case to be Named on Birth Certificate

  04.17.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  An Adelaide woman with a surrogate son has won a landmark case to be named on the child’s birth certificate. The woman, who cannot be named, is the child’s genetic mother – her egg and her husband’s sperm were used to conceive the boy in the womb of an interstate surrogate. Surrogacy advocates praised the [...]

• Advocacy, Infertility, Surrogacy

  The Final Push: Washington Surrogacy Legislation

  04.14.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  With less than two weeks before the regular legislative session ends, it’s time for Washington lawmakers to make the final push to get their bills approved by both houses and signed into law by the governor… The Senate passed an amended version of a bill by Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, that would legalize compensated surrogacy [...]

• Infertility, IVF

  Beating the Medical Odds: Two Sets of Identical Twins!

  04.12.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last year when they decided to try for another baby Mrs Crawford suffered a miscarriage. Undeterred and with most of the cost of in vitro covered by medical insurance, they decided to try again in June. As in the previous attempts, Mrs Crawford’s doctors transferred just two embryos, which is the safest thing to do [...]

• Fertility Tourism, Infertility, Surrogacy

  France’s Ban on Surrogacy

  04.06.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  In a ruling that affirmed France’s ban on surrogacy, the country’s top court refused on Wednesday to allow French citizenship for 10-year-old twin girls born to a surrogate mother in the United States who carried the babies for a French couple… The ruling exposes the legal limbo that many would-be parents find themselves in because [...]

• Egg Donation, Infertility, IVF, Surrogacy

  IVF Baby Day, The First Sunday of April

  04.03.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Ukraine has established The White Orchid Day, the international holiday for IVF babies… An orchid is the world’s only flower that reproduces through assisted reproductive technologies, which explains the name of the holiday. Read the full article: http://www.ivf.net/ivf/the-white-orchid-day-o5842.html