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Couple Has Rare Identical Triplets On Wedding Anniversary
I’ve heard of silver, gold, even cotton and paper for the wedding anniversary. But Amanda and Matthew Faher gave each other three big different gifts for their third wedding anniversary - rare identical triplets. All boys (remember, they’re identical), the babies were born in a US hospital, in Pittsburgh, to the Fahers, both lawyers,...
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Police Checks For IVF Parents
Prospective Victorian parents will be forced to undergo police checks to prove they have not abused children before they can receive IVF treatment. The condition- which is part of the Victorian government's Assisted Reproductive Treatment Act passed last December- will affect up to 5,000 couples a year and has outraged many, Melbourne's Herald S...
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Celine Dion Is Pregnant!
Celine Dion is pregnant again. Yay! Congratulations to her and her family. She underwent fertility treatment in New York recently, and is now due with her second child in May. Her husband is Rene Angelil and the couple have an 8 year old son. Once again, Congrats Celine. Source...
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Better Late…
Even though I know the Australian dream is bullshit, as a woman who has worked for the past twenty years in the entertainment industry, I have developed a really intense work ethic. Somehow working twice as hard as the men around me while taking ten times more crap led me to think that in all situations, if I just keep pushing, it'll all work out....
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Babble Wrap: Young Hardest Hit By Swine Flu Epidemic
A nine-year-old Sydney boy has died from swine flu as it emerged 94 children aged under five were admitted to hospital in the past week. The Daily Telegraph Circumcision Doesn't Reduce Women's HIV Risk Circumcision of men with HIV does not reduce the risk of infection for women, according to a study published by The Lancet. The Australian C...
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Babble Wrap: Oldest Mother, Maria Carmen del Bousada, Dies At 69, Leaving Baby Orphans
A pensioner who became the world’s oldest mother at 66 through anonymous sperm and egg donations has died, leaving her twin sons orphaned and reigniting controversy over fertility treatment for older women. Times Online Call For Carers, Not Parents, To Get Rebate The rebate paid to parents to help with child-care costs should be scrapped and...
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Babble Wrap: Complacent Parents Spread Deadly Whooping Cough Disease
New Queensland parents will be offered free vaccinations for whooping cough in a bid to stem the rapid spread of the disease. Courier Mail This Women Of 72 Spent £30,000 On Six Courses Of IVF... And She's Still Trying For A Baby At the age of 72, she is old enough to know better. But it seems Jenny Brown cannot be deflected from her deter...
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A Five-Year Time Limit On Embryo Storage = Death Row?
The term “death row” in relation to stored embryos sounds like the words of an anti-abortion crusader. They’re not. It’s just what mum Michelle Hickman calls a five-year window granted by the British government to store a couple’s embryos. After that, they say they have to be destroyed. But Hickman, who had a medically-necessary hys...
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Babble Wrap: Kids No Fatter Than A Decade Ago: Report
Australian children haven't got any fatter over the past decade, contrary to recent media reports, a new decade-long study reveals. Ninemsn 'Synthetic Sperm' From Stem Cells Raises Hope For Male Infertility Synthetic human sperm have been grown from embryonic stem cells for the first time, scientists claimed yesterday, raising the prospect of a...
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