Imagine that you and your spouse want to have a baby, however, you are unable to conceive due to a number of reasons. Your friend knows how much you would love a baby and offers to help you and your spouse out: she will carry your child for you. It’s an exciting time for you!…
We know that the primary reasons embryos don’t make it to blast is they don’t have the genetic instructions to continue — and we can’t change or improve the genetics or egg quality of an embryo. If you have faith in your lab there really is no risk with continuing to culture those embryos to…
In the United States, laws concerning surrogacy can vary widely from state to state. In some states, only non-compensated surrogacy arrangements are allowed to take place. In others, surrogacy laws are very accommodating to third party reproduction agreements and allow both altruistic and paid surrogacy agreements.
Intended parents, industry professionals and most importantly gestational carriers might have concerns about what a gestational surrogate may experience after the baby they have been carrying for someone else for the past nine months – and rightly so. This is a big deal, it’s a huge responsibility and there are many emotions involved.
One moment you are thrilled with the idea of being pregnant, and the next you are weeping on the couch, feeling overwhelmed. Welcome to the world of pregnancy hormones. The way hormones affect the body can be overwhelming. Learning about these hormones and how they will affect you will help make sense of your swinging…
“Well-managed surrogacy is the very best of human collaboration, and we should be doing everything we can to support it. Until we do, parents and children will be put at risk, an increasing proportion of them same-sex parents.”
