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  • 29th
    Mar
    2012     Would £35 a visit encourage you to become a sperm donor?

    Would £35 a visit encourage you to become a sperm donor?

    A leading Manchester sperm and egg donor bank is expecting more men and women in the region to consider being egg and sperm donors when the higher compensation rates come into effect next week.

    Manchester Fertility Services at the Bridgewater Hospital in Princess Road says the new compensation rates announced by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which begin from 1 April, should encourage more donors to come forward because the new sums properly reward donors for the necessary ti...

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  • 22nd
    Apr
    2010

    Surrogacy Laws - is it safe to go abroad?

    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 thi...

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  • 6th
    Apr
    2010

    Celebrity Older Mums - how did they conceive?

    What 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 child...

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  • 17th
    Mar
    2010

    Human egg raffle - should a child be the ultimate prize?

    A London IVF clinic has sparked controversy this week by offering childless couples the chance to win an American donor egg of their choice. Paying egg donors for their eggs is illegal in the UK, but the clinic is offering the winner free treatment in America to sidestep existing European laws. The winner also gets to select an egg based on race, upbringing and education, even being able to look at photographs of donors as children to pick which they like the look of...

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  • 16th
    Mar
    2010

    The IVF Process - what will happen?

    Now you know what fertility treatment you need, the next question is often ‘what happens next?’. Put simply, IVF is when your eggs are retrieved and fertilised in a laboratory with semen from your partner or a donor. The resulting embryos are then transferred into your uterus to begin growing as in a normal pregnancy...

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  • 8th
    Mar
    2010

    When is the right time to tell a donor conceived child where they came from?

    If 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 better?...

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