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Daughter Carrying Mum’s Baby
No, this isn’t some sick, twisted story wherein someone will end up their own grandpa. It’s actually kind of sweet. A New Zealand woman has gotten the go-ahead to act as a surrogate for her own mother. In other words? She’ll carry her baby brother or sister in her belly for nine months. Though officials are largely quiet on the details...
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Babble Wrap: Todd McKenney Asks Sonia Kruger To Have His Baby
Todd McKenney has asked his Dancing With The Stars and radio co-host Sonia Kruger to have his baby. SMH Sarah Jessica Parker's Daughters Marion And Tabitha Born To Surrogate Mother The girls were born on Monday afternoon at an Ohio hospital, said Simon Halls, a publicist for the couple. Marion Loretta Elwell Broderick weighed 5 pounds and 11 ou...
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India Baby Boom: Surrogate Birth Every 48 Hours
In the U.S., the reported amount of money gestational carriers (aka: surrogate mothers) receive for nine months of developing some other couple's genetic material into a full-blown baby isn't exactly life-changing. It's never enough to buy a house, pay for a college degree, or even elevate one's standard of living. But in India, surrogate mother...
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The Other Side of Surrogacy
This is what a woman whom I'll call Laurel had to do to become a "gestational" surrogate: Take an injection of hormones to knock her fully functional cycle off its orbit and suppress ovulation. Take synthetic estrogen via pill and patch and inject progesterone suspended in oil through a twenty-five-gauge needle (it's big) into her bottom for six we...
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Court Nixes Couple’s Request For Dead Son’s Sperm
The parents of a man dead since 1998 won't be fulfilling their last minute dreams to have a grandchild - a New York court just nixed their request to use the dead man's sperm to make a baby. Ah, common sense prevails somewhere in New York. Mark Speranza banked sperm at a lab in 1997 before undergoing treatment for cancer; he wanted to be able...
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Parents Advertising for Surrogate Grandmas
There's no question kids who have them love their grandparents - they spoil them rotten. But if your parents are gone, or might as well be, would you be willing to use the term "grandparent" loosely? What about letting a perfect stranger stand in, just so your kids can have a grandparent? A growing number of parents are doing just that. They'...
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Fake Surrogate Mother Arrested
Soon after a New York Times writer unwittingly sparked a debate on classism over her article on gestational surrogacy, the news presents us with another potential pitfall of putting a price on fertility: con artists.A Belgian woman was arrested yesterday for allegedly swindling infertile couples over the Internet by posing as a potential surrogat...
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Putting the Classicism Back Into Surrogate Motherhood
It was with profound gratitude that I happened upon a seething Salon Broadsheet essay about a New York Times article called "Her Body, My Baby." What a relief to know that another woman found this essay on gestational surrogacy as callously classicist as I had!One need only look at the photograph on the right to get a sense of how Alex Kuczyns...
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Grandma Serves as Surrogate, Gives Birth to Triplet Granddaughters
Kim Coseno's triplets had the same exact start in life as their mother... right down to the womb where they spent their first formative months. The surrogate "mother" who gave birth this week to Coseno's three little girls is also their grandmother.Coseno's mum, fifty-six-year-old Jaci Dalenberg is possibly the oldest-ev...
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