Month: October 2018

Adoption, New Zealand, Surrogacy

New Zealand – Toni Street slams ‘outdated’ surrogacy adoption process and spurs PM to promise ‘fixing’ the law

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Source TVNZ

Broadcaster Toni Street has elicited a promise from the prime minister that updating adoption laws is on the Government’s agenda after the media personality posted on social media about having difficulty adopting her biological son born via a surrogate.

Street wrote in an Instagram post that she had signed a change.org petition for the New Zealand Adoption Act to be updated.

“It is incredibly hard for loving parents to adopt in this country and our vulnerable children deserve better,” she wrote. 

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Surrogacy Abroad

International couples see Oregon as surrogacy

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Source Bend Bulletin

London couple recently traveled all the way to Bend to start a family. Sorab Shroff, 39, and his partner, Peter Maguire, 55, found a surrogate in Bend two years ago, and she carried their first child, Colette, who was born Sept. 11 at St. Charles Bend.
An international couple seeking surrogacy in Oregon is not unusual. The state has become a popular destination for couples from around the globe who are pursuing surrogacy.

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Stressed Embryos

STRESSED EMBRYOS HAVE HIGHER SURVIVAL RATES DURING IVF

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Source The Bobr Times

IVF technology in which egg extracted from the woman’s body and fertilized in vitro, i.e. in vitro. After that begins the stage of cultivation of the embryo within two to five days, then it is transferred back into the woman’s uterus. Over time it is recommended to transfer no more than four embryos to avoid multiple pregnancy. However, the likelihood of a successful pregnancy and birth with IVF is roughly the same as with natural conception: pregnant on average a third of women.

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Surrogacy, Surrogate Mother

IVF Was the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done, and I Want to Do It Again

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Source PopSugar

Nothing could have prepared me for how hard the IVF process is. No amount of chats with my doctor or time spent online reading other women’s stories were enough to truly help me understand what it would be like. Kind of like how I couldn’t really know what parenthood involved just because my coworker had a baby. Nope, it wasn’t until I went through IVF that I learned just how much the experience would test me physically and emotionally. From that first blood test that measured my hormone levels to the day I got my pregnancy test results, I would be pushed to the brink of what my mind and body could handle. And yet, knowing what I know now, I would still do it again. In fact, I want to do it again.

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