For many couples, surrogacy can be their only option of having a baby. But if a couple uses a surrogate from abroad, they risk the chance of not being recognised as its legal parents. According to latest news stories, couples who pay extra ‘fees’ to secure a foreign surrogate’s services are flouting British laws which restrict payments for surrogacy. In the UK, you can only pay ‘expenses reasonably incurred’, such as compensation for missing work, medical care and living costs, and this applies whether your surrogate comes from the UK or...
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Surrogacy Laws – is it safe to go abroad?
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Celebrity Older Mums – how did they conceive?
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010What do Hollywood actresses Halle Berry, Marcia Cross, Susan Sarandon, Courtney Cox and Holly Hunter all have in common? They had children in their 40s, some of them in their late 40s. But what they don’t tell you is that in most cases, women who do have children at this age aren’t getting pregnant ‘naturally’, or even through IVF. They’re having to use a donor egg. Marcia Cross, of TV's Desperate Housewives, recently revealed that a donor egg was how she managed to finally have...
Read More »Do new HFEA rules mean an end to IVF twins and triplets?
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010The HFEA is aiming to reduce the number of multiple births following IVF with a new set of rules which come into force next month (April).
Under new guidelines, clinics – whether private or NHS – will now be asked to help reduce the chance of having twins and triplets by only transferring one embryo per...
The iPhone baby is born – can a Fertility App really help you get pregnant?
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010A recent story in the press caught my attention. A 30-year-old woman claims she finally managed to get pregnant after four years of trying using a fertility app on her Apple iPhone. By inputting her daily body temperature, the fertility app was able to calculate when she would be at her most fertile. And the result is what has been dubbed Britain’s first ‘iPhone Baby, a bouncing baby...
Read More »When is the right time to tell a donor conceived child where they came from?
Monday, March 8th, 2010If you need the help of donor sperm or a donor egg to have a baby, then one day you’re going to be faced with telling your children how they came to be born. It’s one of the many things we discuss with our patients during their counselling sessions. It’s not an easy question to answer. Is it a matter of choosing the ‘right age’ to tell them, so they will understand? Or is it a case of the sooner the...
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