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The Dreamhouse
I always thought women who went to fertility clinics were horrid. "They" were super-rich, vain, and wasting a tonne of money on something totally selfish. I mean, they could just adopt a kid who really needed a home, right? Looking back now, I realise these clueless judgments were actually meant to keep me from the truth: I was really, really jealo...
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Fertility on Ice: Jump in Social Egg Freezing
It's popular in the US - Jennifer Aniston is said to have undergone the procedure - and it seems it's taking off over here too. An article in the Sun Herald over the weekend claims that increasing numbers of women in their 30s are seeking out egg-freezing services for "social" reasons, such as advancing age and lack of a willing baby-daddy. T...
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The New Eugenics
Octomom Nadya Suleman is a bogeyman to moralists of all breeds. Religious fundamentalists may approve of big families, but a husbandless woman with fourteen children epitomises feminism gone wild. To proponents of small government, she is a modern-day welfare queen. And to environmentally-friendly progressives, she is something else: the human...
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New Fertility Treatment Lowers Costs, Risks
You’ve got to love the New York Daily News. Headlining an article about a new, less expensive fertility treatment a doctor in NYC is attempting, they trumpet “Have a baby at new low, low price!” and the lede is “A Manhattan fertility doctor is offering a recession special: test-tube babies at bargain-basement prices.” Hi. We don’t ca...
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They Say: Women May Still Produce Eggs As Adults
Rule of thumb has always been that women were born with a set number of eggs and that was it. As she ages, so do her eggs. So when she gets pregnant at age 36, she’s doing it with a 36 year old egg. Now that’s some pretty good shelf life but still there are concerns that the quality of the eggs may diminish and the odds of getting pregnant...
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Babble Wrap: Stem Cell Discovery Raises Hopes Of Restoring Female Fertility
Stem Cell Discovery Raises Hopes Of Restoring Female Fertility The theory that women are born with all the eggs they will ever have has been challenged by research that could raise the prospect of restoring female fertility and reversing the menopause. Times Online Mel Gibson Goes To Divorce Court Not even the “traditionalist” Catholics ca...
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Fertility Clinic Offers Designer Babies
Wanna make sure your baby has sparkling blue eyes? What about olive skin and blond hair? You’re in luck, because Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles is offering parents the option of choosing their babies’ physical traits! It’ll cost you, of course, but then—what’s more important than your child’s physical appearance? Some would argu...
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Octuplets’ Fertility Doctor Strikes Again!
The fertility doctor who is responsible for the birth of eight babies to a jobless single mother who already had six kids is in the news again. The LA Times and KTTV Fox 11 are reporting that shortly after Nadya Suleman became pregnant with octuplets, her fertility doctor, Dr. Michael Kamrava, helped another mother get pregnant. She wanted one b...
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Innie Or Outie, A Sign Of Fertility?
The bump or button left behind on your daughter's belly after the umbilical stump falls off could tell you whether you're destined to be a granny. A University of Finland researcher says the belly button is more than just the cute thing your tot is showing off when she lifts up her shirt every five minutes. It's a sign of "mating potential" in f...
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