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One Big Family: Tolland Woman Gives Birth To Sister’s Child

January 26, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Anna Howat offered to carry her sister Beth Gaudino’s baby after Gaudino and her husband, Justin, lost twins at 20 weeks. Charlotte Grace was born on Tuesday at Hartford Hospital fulfilling the Gaudino’s dream of becoming parents. Both families live in Tolland.

In a sixth-floor room at Hartford Hospital, Anna Howat cradled the niece she gave birth to Tuesday.

For the last nine months, Anna, 29, has carried the biological child of her sister and brother-in-law, who tried without success to have a child for years. And on Jan. 23, at 9:33 p.m., Charlotte Grace Gaudino came out of her aunt’s womb and screaming into the world.

Last April, Anna came to her sister, Beth Gaudino, with a proposition: Anna, who had struggled herself with fertility issues before giving birth to a daughter in 2015, was willing to carry her sister’s child.

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What Is Surrogacy, and What Does It Actually Involve?

January 26, 2018September 2, 2019 Intended Parents

Source My Domaine

The birth of Kim Kardashian West’s third child didn’t just prompt conversations about the choice of the baby’s name, Chicago—it also ignited new discussions about surrogacy. West’s surrogacy story is hardly indicative of the norm (sources say she was “pampered” by the couple during pregnancy), but her decision to give birth via surrogate is certainly in line with modern parenting trends. While it has been around for more than 30 years, gestational surrogacy transfers have nearly doubled since 2015.

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South Africa – Surrogacy – too much to bear?

January 25, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Lexology

Surrogacy – a word recently dragged kicking and screaming into the limelight by the pop-couple Kardashian-West. What caused the outcry? Kim’s decision: the mother of two would not bear their third child herself. Worldwide the topic of surrogacy sparks debate. Leaving ethics aside for a moment, should the legal aspects of surrogacy be influenced by social, political or geographical factors?

Surrogacy is not a concept or practice foreign to South Africa. The Children’s Act of 2005 prescribes that all surrogacy arrangements are to be governed by a “surrogacy motherhood agreement” (SMA), the validity of which must be confirmed by a court. A recent decision handed down by the Johannesburg High Court highlighted a few requirements for such confirmation. The judgment arguably opens the door to social, political and or geographical discrimination.

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India – Where do you really stand on surrogacy?

January 20, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Hindustan Times

The demand for surrogacy in India was so high that it made way for professional surrogacy agencies to enter the market as foreigners thronged accommodating IVF clinics, wanting a child. The market came under severe criticism for exploiting the surrogates, among other things.

Anindita Majumdar’s Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un) Making of Kin in India takes on this controversial subject via case studies, introducing readers to various stakeholders in the business that she has interacted with, without identifying them.

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How To Bond With Your Baby If They’re Born Via Surrogacy, According To Experts

January 20, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Romper

Long before we hit the “your baby can now hear” stage in pregnancy, my husband Dan began having nightly chats with my belly, listing the reasons he was excited to meet our daughter or telling her about her cool mom. It was their way of bonding given that Dan couldn’t do it the same way that I could — you know, the whole me-carrying-a-baby-in-my-womb part. It made me wonder about parents who go about having children in less traditional ways, like through surrogacy. Were there tips for how to bond with your baby if they’re born via surrogacy? Surely, I thought, you can establish a special connection in ways that extend beyond the act of physically carrying a child.

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Can You Be A Surrogate For Your Sister? Take A Look At The Legalities

January 19, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Romper

With all of the fervor surrounding the possibilities that Kylie Jenner is actually Kim Kardashian West’s surrogate, much online chatter has revolved around the process of surrogacy. It’s a complicated process with a lot of potential landmines both ethically and legally. However, in the case of sibling surrogacy, it seems as though it should be easier as there is already a familial bond present. However, that might not always be the case. It begs the question, can you be a surrogate for your sister? What would that mean?

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More gestational surrogates needed in Australia

January 19, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Manning River Times

Cassie Lakes’ Tinonee home, which she shares with her partner of three years, is filled with the joyful sound of her three children happily playing together.

It is a sound the 28-year-old woman believes nobody should miss out on hearing just because they aren’t able to have their own children.

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Can You Breastfeed A Baby You’ve Had Via Surrogacy?

January 19, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Women’s Health

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West just welcomed a baby girl to the world via surrogacy. And since it was revealed she was expecting, the reality TV star has been in full nesting mode, showing off alllll her sweet baby swag on social media.

The product she’s obsessing over? A nursing pillow that she says is “the most necessary thing of life.” In one Snapchat vid she even admitted to getting multiples to keep in every room of the house.

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UK – I have been a surrogate four times – and this is what it’s really like

January 18, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Independent

I first looked into surrogacy about 20 years ago, purely by chance. I initially wanted to pursue egg donation – I’d finished my own family and at just 21 it felt like such a waste of my fertility.

However, upon researching egg donation I realised that I would have to act anonymously. I was disappointed, as I very much wanted to know what would happen with my eggs, who they were passed on to, and details about the child that may possibly be born.

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UK – ‘The greatest gift’: How I became a surrogate

January 17, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: BBC

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West and her husband Kanye West have announced the birth of their third child – a baby girl delivered by a surrogate. Her surrogate had made their “dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give”, she said.

One woman who knows exactly what it is like to give that gift is Laura Mott, a 31-year-old from Essex, who acted as a surrogate mum last year.

On 5 February, she gave birth to a 6lb 14 oz baby girl. Moments later, the baby was in the arms of her intended mother, Melissa.

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UK – Surrogate mother and MP: UK surrogacy law ‘outdated and inadequate’

January 17, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: BBC

Sarah Jones – a parent, childminder, four-time surrogate and chair of Surrogate UK – said UK surrogacy law is “unacceptable”

A woman who has been a surrogate mother four times says “urgent changes” are needed to surrogacy law.

Sarah Jones from Epworth, Lincolnshire, backed by MP for Brigg and Goole Andrew Percy, said current laws, set up in the 1980s, are “outdated and inadequate”.

Surrogacy is when a woman becomes pregnant with the intention of giving the child to its parents after birth.

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Woodland Hills surrogate mom loses custody battle for triplets

January 17, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Surrogate mom Melissa Cook speaks about her lawsuit at a friends home in Woodland Hills in 2016.(Photo by KEVIN SULLIVAN / Orange County Register/SCNG)

A Woodland Hills surrogate mother who charged that the triplets she gave birth to in 2016 were endangered by their father has lost her court battle to gain custody of the children.

Melissa Cook, 49, entered into a surrogacy agreement with Chester Shannon Moore Jr., a single man in his 50s, and gave birth to triplets on Feb. 22, 2016. Their relationship soured during the pregnancy when, according to court records, he said that he wanted one aborted because of financial concerns, and Cook refused.

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Singapore – Should commercial surrogacy be legalised?

January 16, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: The Strait Times

Does Singapore condone commercial surrogacy? This question is in the limelight with a court judgment on a Singaporean doctor’s bid to adopt a boy he fathered through a commercial surrogacy arrangement in the United States.

The district judge, pointing to how in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedures are limited to married couples under Singapore law, held last month that the doctor cannot use adoption to formalise the parent-child relationship he created through medical procedures that are not legal here.

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Lodi woman serves as surrogate for couple in London

January 14, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Lodi News-Sentinel

The Christmas season is all about giving unto others, and this year a Lodi woman gave the ultimate gift of parenthood to a family in London.

On Nov. 20, Holly Marie Baker gave birth to their twins, a boy and a girl, after serving as their surrogate mother.

Ever since high school, Baker said she always wanted to be a surrogate. While doing some research on surrogacy, she found out that she would have to give birth to her own child before she would be eligible for surrogacy. More than two years after having a child, Baker felt it was the perfect time to be a surrogate.

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Surrogate-born baby’s very life at center of legal fight

January 14, 2018May 24, 2021 Intended Parents

Source: wfaa.com

A baby boy born Thursday morning at Medical City Dallas is at the center of a custody dispute between the biological parents, the surrogate who carried the child, and now Dallas County and the state of Texas.

Attorneys for the surrogate, a woman from Collin County who’s successfully served as a surrogate twice before, said she agreed to carry the child for a couple from out of state. But at 16 weeks of pregnancy, doctors discovered the baby had a heart problem.

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Singapore – Where to go, what do to? Family in Singapore’s gay surrogacy adoption case in limbo

January 14, 2018February 26, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: South China Morning Post

Out of the three bedrooms in Noel’s home, two have been dedicated to the four-year-old — one for sleeping, the other for toys. There are a lot of toys, mostly gifts from family and friends. Noel is very much the apple of his parents’ eyes, and the extended family’s too. Both sides of the family gather every few weeks in Noel’s home, humouring him with endless games of hide and seek in the 1,450 sq ft apartment.

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Paramedic husband responds when wife, surrogate mom, goes into labor

January 14, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: KBTX-TV

A Washington County mother gave a special Christmas gift this past week.

She served as a surrogate for friends wanting to start a family. The babies came early.

“It wasn’t how we planned it. I was supposed to have a Caesarean,” said Nasreen Stump, the surrogate mother.

Last Tuesday morning, her water broke.

Nasreen’s husband, Greg, was working that morning. He’s a Washington County EMS Paramedic.

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Surrogate mother delivers early for EC’s first child of 2018

January 14, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: Leader-Telegram

Christine Ravago, right, of Severna Park, Md., holds her son, Sterling, born at 8:43 a.m. Monday with surrogate mother Alyssa Johnson of Eau Claire. Sterling was the first baby of the new year born at Eau Claire hospitals.

Mayo Clinic Health System delivered the first baby of 2018 early Monday in Eau Claire as parents Christine Ravago and her husband, Simon Bone, of Severna Park, Md., sped across the country to be there for the birth of their son.

Ravago and Bone have been trying to have a child for years without success. According to a Mayo news release, the pair were connected with surrogate mother Alyssa Johnson of Eau Claire over a year ago, which paved the way for their son Sterling’s arrival.

Born at 7 pounds and 20½ inches, baby Sterling was born at 8:43 a.m. via cesarean section. The baby arrived 20 days before his due date after high blood pressure concerns sent Johnson into an early delivery.

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Surrogate mother refused to abort baby after heart defect found

January 14, 2018May 24, 2021 Intended Parents

Sourc: The Washington Times

A surrogate mother who refused to procure an abortion after doctors detected a fetal heart defect gave birth to a baby boy Thursday.

The surrogate, who wished to remain anonymous, told WFAA in Dallas that she is “elated” the boy will receive life-saving treatment.

“Every time I think about it, I break down in joy,” the surrogate said. “There are so many people rooting and praying for this baby boy, the doctors, their staff, the hospital and now the parents. Everyone wants to see success, happiness, and hear what a fighter this precious baby is.”

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Australia – State Government to allow same sex couples access to Surrogacy

January 14, 2018March 10, 2018 Intended Parents

Source: CoastLive.com

WA Health Minister Roger Cook PIC: Attila Csaszar / Business News WA

The State Government has announced a shake up of the Human Reproductive Technology Act to allow same sex couples to have children using a surrogate.

An independent review will be undertaken by Associate Professor Sonia Allen who worked on similar reforms in South Australia.

Professor Allen’s work was successful in allowing same South Australian sex couples access to surrogacy from last year.

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