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Infertility

• Infertility, Surrogacy

  Best Friends Endure Pregnancy by Surrogacy

  06.21.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  In western Massachusetts, one woman is carrying a baby for her best friend, who has a disease that would make pregnancy dangerous. Every year, an estimated 1,300 babies are born in the United States to gestational carriers — women who bear a child from the egg and sperm of another couple. Only a small percentage [...]

• Infertility

  Sweden: Daughter Gets Transplant of Mother’s Womb

  06.14.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sara Ottosson, who was born without a uterus, will undergo an experimental procedure to have her mother’s uterus transplanted into her, according to a BBC News report. She could be the first woman to give birth to a baby using the same womb in which she was conceived and carried to term. Read the full [...]

• Egg Donation, Infertility

  Egg Freezing: Putting the Biological Clock on Hold?

  06.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Clinics in the U.S. have long frozen fertilized eggs, or embryos. But eggs alone are more delicate and prone to damage. Over the years, egg freezing has been offered mainly to cancer patients facing radiation, but success rates were pretty dismal. Of late, though, the technology has exploded thanks to scientific leaps, including a flash-freeze [...]

• Fertility Tourism, Infertility, IVF, Surrogacy

  Commercial Surrogacy is Approved in the UK

  05.26.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  A serving High Court judge has told the BBC that he is approving commercial surrogacy agreements made by British couples abroad. Mr Justice Hedley, who specialises in family law, said it was important to highlight the issue because people were “getting into a mess unnecessarily”. Four weeks ago a judgement was handed down at the [...]

• Infertility, IVF

  Increase Pregnancy Rates for IVF with Mind/Body Programs

  05.18.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Infertility treatment is stressful: everyone else seems to be getting pregnant; why can’t you? A new study published online in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that women who participate in mind-body training have a significantly higher pregnancy rate than women who don’t undergo training: 52% compared to 20%. Read the full article: http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/17/mind-body-programs-boost-pregnancy-rates-for-ivf-patients/#ixzz1MkQ5TAFH

• Infertility

  An Overview of Female Fertility in 2010, by the Census Bureau News

  05.10.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Data on fertility of American women for the noninstitutionalized population are collected biannually in the June Current Population Survey (CPS) for the Nation. Detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected tables are listed below. Read the full article: http://www.census.gov/hhes/fertility/data/cps/index.html

• 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, 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 [...]