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This book is a moving real-life account of one woman's struggle with infertility and her journey through surrogacy to have the family she desperately wanted.

 

 

 

 


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2004

December 30, 2004

 

Growing trend: new mothers in their 50s, 60s

 

December 19, 2004

 

Milton woman finds joy as surrogate mom, but legal issues cloud practice

 

November 19, 2004

 

Straights can procreate 'unnaturally'

 

Two Women, Two Families, One Heart

 

November 18, 2004

 

Facing Virginia's Hostility

Surrogate delivers second child to family

November 17, 2004

 

Prosser woman admits adoption fraud

 

November 14, 2004

 

Everyday dads

 

November 9, 2004

 

Don't worry, say other older moms

 

November 7, 2004

 

Surrogacy more common but not in region

 

Surrogate: 'I know I helped somebody'

 

Lakeland Woman Serves as Surrogate, Gives Twin Gifts to Family

 

November 6, 2004

 

UK - Payments plan for egg donors

 

October 30, 2004

 

Friends, foes of Amendment 3 make last appeals

 

October 26, 2004

 

India - Finding surrogate mothers easier

 

October 3, 2004

 

New Zealand - The other way to be a mother

 

September 22, 2004

 

Who Gets Custody When the Fertility Clinic Makes a Mistake?

 

Defendant in surrogate mom case testifies

 

September 21,2004

 

Twice blessed: Multiple births are on the rise across America

 

September 19, 2004

 

Taiwan - Legalize surrogates, says panel

 

Offspring in the 21st century

 

September 18, 2004

 

Taiwan - Surrogate Mother to be permitted conditionally

 

September 17, 2004

 

UK - Jackie's vow to bring couples joy

 

September 16, 2004

 

Surrogate mother gets joy out of helping others have children

 

September 14, 2004

 

 

Couple settles lawsuit against clinic doctor who implanted embryo into wrong woman

UK - IVF Twins Born to Biological Mother of Infertile Woman Using Donated Embryos; Infertile Woman Wins Custody

September 9, 2004

 

'Don't care about DNA, baby's mine'
 

September 6, 2004

 

Gays forging creative paths to parenthood

 

September 5, 2004

 

Only option left for many couples

 

September 3, 2004

 

Big to-do ova triplet certificate

 

September 1, 2004

 

Kelsey Grammer, wife add a boy to the family

 

August 31, 2004

 

Taiwan - Public panel examines surrogacy

 

August 27, 2004

 

Jury indicts woman in pregnancy scam

 

August 19, 2004

 

Lawmaker's bill asks, 'Who's a parent?'

 

August 15, 2004

 

UK - 'I am just paying back the gift'

 

August 14, 2004

 

Twins' registration nixed over surrogacy

 

Our 500th Surrogate

 

August 9, 2004

 

Why donor offspring need to know the truth

Fertility laws frustrate Italians

 

August 6, 2004

 

No designer babies for NZ

 

August 1, 2004

 

Rights, responsibilities of same-sex parents at stake

 

July 30, 2004

 

Biological father argues for triplets born to surrogate

 

July 26, 2004

 

Twins born to own gran fly home

 

July 24, 2004

 

Learning about fatherhood on the high seas with Rosie

 

July 22, 2004

 

Taiwan - 20-member surrogacy panel to nut out public consensus

 

July 20, 2004

 

UK - Your life: Family - I'm a serial surrogate

 

July 18, 2004

 

Legal fight leaves triplets in limbo

 

Many states lack laws addressing surrogacy

 

July 14, 2004

 

Twins born to different mothers

 

Having her babies

 

July 9, 2004

 

Biological father argues for triplets born to surrogate

 

July 7, 2004

 

Egg donor enters battle for custody of triplets

 

The evolution of parenting

 

Dutch abandon surrogacy pregnancies

 

June 30, 2004

 

Embryo-mixup case settled

 

June 20, 2004

 

UK - Controversial first surrogacy hits headlines

 

Gay parents of quads have separated

 

Surrogate sister, surprise pregnancy of wife result in couple's miracle twins

 

Paul Redd-Butterfield and Tony Butterfield - Gay dads

 

June 18, 2004

 

Reporting surrogate-parent payments

 

Japan won't recognize twins born to surrogate

 

Single Mothers-to-Be Face Bias, Race Ticking Clock

 

June 17, 2004

 

Paternal Instinct

 

June 11, 2004

 

Japan refuses mother's recognition request

 

June 10, 2004

 

Japan - Insemination Bill stalls, again

 

June 7, 2004

 

UK - Trading Babies

 

UK - Surrogate joy at last for childless couple

 

June 3, 2004

 

Brazil - Woman gives birth... to own granddaughter

 

June 2, 2004

 

Two decades after the Baby M case, many states still have no surrogacy laws

 

May 30, 2004

 

War over boy raised by Gays  

 

May 28, 2004

 

Japan - Desperate couples seek court's help

 

May 26, 2004

 

Japan - Doctors, Patients Sue Organization

 

May 23, 2004

 

UK - I handed over my baby son to a childless couple a year ago..Now I'm overjoyed to give them a second child.

 

May 22, 2004

 

UK - Mother jailed over internet baby sale

 

May 21, 2004

 

UK - Circle of Life

 

UK - Mother Treated her Baby as 'A Commodity'

 

May 19, 2004

 

What Is A Mother? The California "Egg Donor" Case Gets It Wrong

 

May 18, 2004

 

UK - Love for pregnancy makes Jill Hawkins a baby factory!

 

May 16, 2004

 

People now recognize we are out there

 

May 12, 2004

 

C.A. Rejects Egg Donor’s Claim to Be Parent of Partner’s Child

 

May 11, 2004

 

Lesbian egg donor has no parental rights to kids born from lover

 

May 10, 2004

 

Unlike judge, surrogacy advocates urge hands-off approach by lawmakers

 

May 8, 2004

 

A Mother’s Day miracle

 

May 7, 2004

 

Rapid City surrogate mom shares story in new book

 

May 2, 2004

 

New Zealand - Surrogacy babies a 'miracle'

 

April 28, 2004

 

Mother felt time running out to bear child for her daughter

 

April 27, 2004

 

SPECIAL BONDS Unusual Relationships Develop When Mom Is a Surrogate

 

April 26, 2004

 

UK - Couple's cycle of heartbreak

 

The Battle over same-sex marriage.  After the wedding bells, gays face maze of legal obstacles

 

Australia - Older dads not in the swim

 

April 24, 2004

 

South Africa - Site selling egg cells 'frozen'

 

April 23, 2004

 

Twin 'donates an ovary' to sister

 

April 22, 2004

 

Paternity issues under study

 

South Africa - US fertility safaris to city offer women R13 000 for eggs

 

UK - Egg donation plea shows the power of the press

 

April 19, 2004

 

UK - You made baby dream come alive

 

Center plans infertility seminar

 

Australia - Women unite in fight of love versus the law

 

April 18, 2004

State's surrogacy stance murky

UK - Do these two men and their babies constitute the most bizarre surrogate family in America?

April 16, 2004

UK - Couple's heartbreak after snub by adoption service

Australia - Sperm donor website must close, says MP

April 14, 2004

Fewer Women Having Triplets or More

A Pregnancy Aid For Older Women

April 13, 2004

Triplets' surrogate mom fights to keep baby boys

April 11, 2004

 

UK - Surrogate mum tries to sell her baby

Judge allows surrogate mother to be legal parent of triplets

April 9, 2004

Doctor Delivers Her Own Twins

New Technique Raises Pregnancy Odds Without Multiple Births

April 7, 2004

How Much for that Academically Accomplished Baby in the Window?

April 6, 2004

UK - Act of kindness

April 5, 2004

In-Vitro Fertilization Guidelines

April 2, 2004

 

Internet baby couple criticised 

 

Pro-lifers criticize report by president's bioethics council

 

Couple's heartache over surrogacy con

 

March 15, 2004

 

Using Experimental Means To Have Children

 

March 13, 2004

 

NZ - Fertility clinics address ethnic concerns

 

March 12, 2004

 

How far will couples go to conceive?

 

Embryo failure rocks family

 

March 10, 2004

 

Embryo Obtained after Breast Cancer Patient's Ovarian Tissues is Frozen, Stored For Six Years, And Then Reimplanted

 

March 8, 2004

 

Australia - Push to curb multiple IVF births

 

March 5, 2004

 

The high-tech method of makin' babies

 

March 4, 2004

 

Sorry, the bank's out of eggs and sperm

 

Canada - Infertile couples disappointed with cloning bill

 

March 3, 2004

 

Embryo Adoption Brings Hope To Infertile Couples

 

Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis offers hope but prompts ethical concerns

 

March 2, 2004

 

March 1, 2004

 

Another little miracle

 

February 29, 2004

 

UK -  Lesbian couple's internet tot born

 

India - Manufactured motherhood

 

Prosecutor calls adoption fraud case 'heartbreaking'

 

February 28, 2004

 

Just-Married Gay Couples Ask What's Wrong

 

UK - Bearing gifts

 

February 27, 2004

 

Surrogate births, Japan debates

 

Paid surrogacy makes sense

 

February 26, 2004

 

Japan - City won't register surrogate twins

February 24, 2004

Marriage is for the children

February 21, 2004

 

Japan - Ministry refuses to register twins from surrogate birth

 

Lesbian ex-couple fight for custody

 

February 18, 2004

 

India - My mother gave birth to my twins

 

February 16, 2004

 

Surrogate Mother Legislation Passes House Committee

 

UK - Couples launch search for egg donors  

 

February 3, 2004

 

Surrogate mother calls daughter's babies a miracle

 

Childless couple opt for surrogacy but choose to keep mum

 

Forbidden apple from the hi-tech tree of life

 

February 2, 2004

 

Messing with life

 

Parents denying the right to know who you are

 

UK mum will have to adopt her kids

 

February 1, 2004

 

UK - I'm proud to bear daughter's twins, says surrogate mother

 

Couple wait for their bundles of joy

 

UMC Physician saving cancer victims fertility

 

January 31, 2004

 

India - Row as mother gives birth to daughter's twins

 

Many frozen embryos go unclaimed

 

January 30, 2004

 

Surrogate mother report re-ignites ethical debate

 

Twins for surrogate grandmother

 

January 29, 2004

 

Here, grand-mom’s the word

 

Surrogate mother gives birth to her grandchildren

 

Embryo Battle:  Evans wins right to appeal

 

January 25, 2004

 

Cool concept: freezing human eggs

 

January 24, 2004

 

Donors grant baby wishes

 

January 23, 2004

 

Grandmother is surrogate mother to grandchildren

 

January 22, 2004

 

Couples 'facing donor trauma'

 

Naming Names Is A Donor Handicap

 

January 21, 2004

 

Children may track donor parents

 

January 20, 2004

 

Egg and sperm donors to be named

 

Donor names: ill-conceived idea or every child's right?

 

January 19, 2004

 

Reproductive Technology Report a Mixed Bag

 

January 18, 2004

 

Indian mother to give birth to her daughter's kids

 

January 17, 2004

 

Removal of Sperm Donor Anonymity Reports Condemned

 

January 16, 2004

 

Same-sex parenting: Does a mom & dad make a difference?

 

January 13, 2004

 

Japan's Fertility-Treatment Boom Pressures Women

 

January 11, 2004

 

Two Fathers, With One Happy to Stay at Home

 

January 10, 2004

 

Gay parents of quadruplets add another son to family

 

January 7, 2004

 

India - Mother Lends womb to daughter

 

UK - Mother held at hospital for 'selling baby on internet'
 

January 5 2004

 

Australia - Baby scam on Internet

 

Australia - Triple the number of women find egg donors

 

UK - IVF Couples 'Willing to Donate Extra Embryos'

 

Holland - New Dutch laws on smoking and healthcare come into force

 

N.J. governor signs into law bill allowing therapeutic cloning, stem cell research

 

UK - Sperm counts have dropped by a almost third in 10 years

 

January 4, 2004

 

New Zealand - Families in donor follow-up

 

Two women declared natural parents

 

January 2, 2004

 

Not even menopause could stop this woman

 

2003

 

December 29, 2003

 

Japan - Children Born through Artificial Insemination Speak up
 

December 22, 2003

 

A new family man

 

December 21, 2003

 

Court to weigh parental rights

 

Fewer deductions, more complications

 

December 18, 2003

 

Australia - Shortage of sperm risks IVF

 

Australia - Tasmania suffers sperm shortage

 

December 15, 2003

 

Japan - Searching for the Stork

 

December 14, 2003

 

Australian Court Approves Gay Co-Parenting

 

December 13, 2003,

 

Australia - Gay couple 'parents', court finds

 

December 11, 2003

 

Australia - Sydney sperm shortage

 

Fertilisation laws in the world

 

Italian Senate OKs Fertility Restriction

 

Italy Adopts New Restrictive Reproductive Rights Law

 

Italy passes controversial reproduction bill

 

December 10, 2003

 

The Gay Baby Boom is a Sign of the Times

 

Japan - U.S. surrogate mother for TV talent Mukai gives birth to twins

 

UK - Woman in IVF egg plea

 

December 8, 2003

 

Pregnancy From Frozen Donor Egg Achieved At Diamond Institute

 

Sperm donors could veto pregnancy - Australia

 

December 7, 2003

 

Gift of Life

India - In foreign baby labs, NRI couples have white babies!

Australia - Donor kids get right to know their parents

December 5, 2003

 

Japanese couple seek citizenship for surrogate twins

 

Estranged lesbians battle for custody of twins. Courts must decide if egg donor should have parental rights

 

December 1, 2003

 

UK - Gynaecologist backs ban on donation of human eggs

 

November 30, 2003

 

Gay and lesbian couples find hope in Mass. ruling, challenges in building families

 

Parents through surrogate mom ever thankful
 

November 29, 2003

 

UK - IVF expert welcomes egg ban

 

UK - Scientists pay women £1500 for their eggs

 

November 27, 2003

 

Making babies for money

 

November 26, 2003

 

Egg Donation: Booming Baby Business

 

November 24, 2003

 

Embryo Adoption

 

November 23, 2003

 

Australia - Miracle baby nears the halfway mark

 

November 21, 2003

 

Fertility holidays in Sth Africa

 

November 20, 2003

 

Belgium - Belgians turn to classifieds to find egg donors

 

Saving the fertility of women

 

November 19, 2003

 

Paternity case shows need for new law

 

November 17, 2003

 

The Business of Babies

 

November 16, 2003

 

Australia - IVF backing for lesbians, singles

 

Childless in America's baby capital

 

November 14, 2003

 

Scotland - DNA Puzzle of Mother Made of Two Women  

 

Canada - Dad's case now a feminist cause celebre

 

And baby makes three! Or four…

 

November 12, 2003

 

Japan - Japan likely to grant surrogate twins nationality

 

November 11, 2003

 

Japan - Surrogate twins born in US granted Japanese citizenship

 

November 8, 2003

 

Japan - Gov't won't register twins born to American surrogate mother

 

November 4, 2003

 

UK - TVs mother of seven having twins for childless couple

 

Double dads and their kids redefine family

 

November 3, 2003

 

UK - Egg-share plan 'safe for donors'

 

November 2, 2003

 

Birth of change

 

October 29, 2003

 

UK - Egg-sharing does not damage a donor’s own chance of a baby say UK researchers

 

Australia - Sperm and egg donor kids kept in dark

 

Japan - Surrogate rules must protect rights

 

October 28, 2003

 

Gay With Children

 

Canada - Parents face birth of the baby laws

 

October 25, 2003

 

UK - Couple desperate for baby advertise for gift of eggs

 

Japan - Surrogate case hampered by legal barriers: ministry

 

October 24, 2003

 

Japan - Ministry shuns surrogate babies

 

October 23, 2003

Japan - Japan Refuses Citizenship to Pair's Twins

October 22, 2003

 

Japan - Twins born to U.S. surrogate mom in legal limbo for over 1 year

 

October 19, 2003

 

Two Lives to Give

 

October 17, 2003

 

Pregnancy hopes for cancer victims

 

October 15, 2003

 

For first time in humans, fertility treatment succeeds

 

October 14, 2003

 

Couples' Feelings Mixed About Extra Embryos

 

October 13, 2003

 

Success Reported in New Fertility Method

 

Ban on scientists trying to create three-parent baby

 

First successful ovary transplant

 

Ovary transplant breakthrough

 

October 12, 2003

 

Kenya - Kenya’s first test tube baby is on the way

 

October 11, 2003

 

Courtney's Baby Hopes

 

October 10, 2003

 

Link for families in donor births

 

October 7, 2003

 

Thousands of dollars are offered to female donors who give eggs to center.

 

UK - Surfing for Surrogates

 

October 3, 2003

 

Canada - MPs consider rules for reproductive technologies

 

October 2, 2003

 

UK - Now British couples can adopt an embryo

 

UK - IVF women lose their chance to have babies

 

Groundbreaking Custody Battle

 

October 1, 2003

 

More gays and lesbians than ever are becoming parents

 

September 29, 2003

 

Nigeria - Perils of IVF and surrogate motherhood

 

September 28, 2003

'Gayby boom' shows no sign of slowing

September 26, 2003

Canada - Liberal deal aims to foil rebel MPs

September 25, 2003

Nigeria - Regulating assisted conception practices

Sex selection goes mainstream

September 23, 2003

Last-Minute complications

'Rent-a-womb' to see a boom

September 22, 2003

New hope for infertility

September 19, 2003

Scientist 'close to cloning baby'

September 18, 2003

Is being a surrogate mother adultery?

September 16, 2003

When a Doctor Stumbles on a Family Secret

Monica and Chandler Seeking Surrogate Mom

September 14, 2003

Australia - Gay dads want their son to grow up straight

September 12, 2003

OnCampus: Body fluids solve budget problems

Proud Papas Gay Dads Delighted Over New Quadruplets

September 11, 2003

UK - Internet plea for surrogate mother

September 10, 2003

Canada - MPs hear plea for commercial surrogacy

UK - Grandma's IVF Hopes

Egg donors earn cash, help others

September 9, 2003

UK - Gay dads plea for new mum

September 4, 2003

UK - Woman in egg donor plea

August 28, 2003

UK - Surrogate gay dads euphoric at third child

August 24, 2003

Special delivery from Lisa with love

Why I will become an incubator for Lisa

August 23, 2003

Global Surrogacy Market

August 22, 2003

Australia - Australian gay men go abroad for surrogate babies

July 22, 2003

The future of babymaking

July 21, 2003

Do IVF kids face more health risks?

July 18, 2003

Joan Lunden's Special Delivery

July 3, 2003

Surrogacy is 'positive experience' for mothers

July 2, 2003

UK - Surrogate mothers happy in their role

UK - Surrogate couples 'make better parents'

July 1, 2003

Womb transplant baby within three years

India - No danger to pregnancy through single embryo transfers

Mum aims for ninth surrogate baby

Jun 29, 2003

Surrogate mom still close to her triplets

June 23, 2003

UK, Edinburgh - Daughter hopes to copy surrogate mother

May 6, 2003

Friend bears child for cancer patient

April 13, 2003

Breathing life into hopes for a family

April 6, 2003

Issues surrounding surrogacy

The new extended family

March 1, 2003

Mother carries her daughter's twins

February 27, 2003

Black donor is babies' legal father, judge rules

Feb, 12, 2003

CNN interview with Joan Lunden

Jan 28, 2003

Gay and Lesbian communities experiencing 'gayby boom'

Jan 15, 2003

Kris_Tschetter_story

Jan 1, 2003

UK - I had baby for my pals

2002

October 31, 2002

UK - New surrogate baby makes eight

July 1, 2002

UK - Surrogate couples 'make better parents'

UK - 'He is my son, and that's that'

2001

August 15, 2001

N.J. court rules against using embryos

May 1, 2001

Japan - Japan's first surrogate mother gives birth

June 2, 2000

When a couple divorces, who owns the embryo?

 

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