Last month, Nanfang Daily released a story about 43-year-old Li Duo (pseudonym), who already has a daughter but recently became obsessed with the notion of bearing a son to continue their family line. Considering the fact that gender selection is illegal in China – not to mention that, at 43, Li is already past her prime child-bearing years – it seemed like a pipe dream. Until, that is, she discovered that fertility clinics in Thailand offer IVF (in vitro fertilization), which would not only allow her to get pregnant at such a late age, but would allow her to choose the sex of her baby.
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11 Things You Should Know if You’re Considering Freezing Your Eggs
Freezing your eggs used to be an out-there procedure deemed “experimental” because of its iffy odds. But thanks to better success rates—and major media buzz from celebrities like Olivia Munn, Maria Menounos, and Jennifer Love Hewitt—it’s become an empowering way to buy time to have a baby on your own terms. More fertility clinics are offering it, and tech giants like Google and Facebook are covering it in their benefits packages.
My Last Embryo’s Peculiar Path to the Miracle of Childbirth
People reminded me that I was lucky to be married to a younger pair of ovaries. But we were also shackled to fertility clinics and quests for donated sperm. We spent $15,000 in one year for 20 intrauterine insemination attempts – and no baby.
Fertility Clinics to Offer Discounts to Wounded Veterans
Many of the nation’s fertility clinics plan to offer discounts on in-vitro fertilization services to veterans with service-related injuries, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and the Society for Assisted Reproduction Technology announced Wednesday.
Divorced Couple’s Embryo Feud Could Affect How Fertility Clinics Do Business
A divorced couple’s battle for control over their frozen embryos could affect how fertility clinics approach freezing embryos, experts said of the precedents the case may set.
Questions Over What to Do With Unused Embryos
A few months ago, “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara’s dispute with her ex-fiance Nick Loeb over what to do with their frozen embryos became public. The two used in vitro fertilization to create embryos. But when they split, Vergara wanted keep the embryos frozen, while Loeb wanted them as children. The disagreement highlights the complicated moral and legal questions that families, doctors and courts are facing as the number of frozen embryos in fertility clinics across the country grows. We look at what families are doing with unused embryos.
Egg Donor Money: Fertility Clinic Offers Women $5000
A nationwide chain of fertility clinics is offering $5000 to cover the expenses of egg donors, a first for Australia that some fear could act as an inducement. Egg Donors Australia, an initiative of City Fertility Centre, is offering the amount to cover what are classified as reasonable expenses.
Mitochondrial Manipulation Technology Unlikely in United States Anytime Soon
Lawmakers in the United Kingdom voted recently to allow fertility clinics to use mitochondrial manipulation technology (MMT) to enable women with mutations in mitochondrial genes to have genetically healthy children . But the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is being much more conservative and is awaiting results of further preclinical research before allowing clinical trials to begin. The technology is of concern because it manipulates the germline, something many countries prohibit.
Victoria Clinic Sperm Demand Prompts Calls to Use Overseas Donors
Victoria’s donor sperm supply has plunged in the past year as fertility clinics struggle to recruit enough men to meet demand, strengthening a push for donor sperm to be imported from overseas.
Fertility Clinics Scan for the Strongest Embryo
The chromosomal testing is one of the techniques now coming into use to help fertility clinics answer one of their most vexing questions: Which test-tube embryo or embryos will give a woman the best shot at having a baby?