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• Former Foster Care Kid Adopted At 36

  I may be totally ripping off Grace Slick, but everybody wants somebody to love, right? Even if it's been eighteen years since you aged out of the foster care system and gave up your dreams of one day finding a mom? Alice Jones spent sixteen years in the foster care system, and she's been out of it for eighteen. But last week, Jones finally got adopted.  The thirty-six-year-old computer programmer entered a Texas courtroom with friend Kate Held, a fifty-year-old mentor and mother figures of sorts who officially became her mom during a short ceremony complete with "It's a Girl" balloons.  Are you crying yet? Just wait. Read More... Posted Feb 09 2009, 12:31 PM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: father, mother, adoption, newborns, babies, foster care, infants, Jeanne Sager, biological parents, birth mother, adopted adults, foster care system, adopting older kids

• Mom Sells Newborn Twins to Fund Liposuction

  Here's one way to get rid of the post-pregnancy pounds: you can sell your newborn twins to the tune of nine thousand pounds (about $13,450 US) and splurge on liposuction. Personally I'd go for eating less and working out more, but I'm just old-fashioned that way.  A Belgian mother of seven (including the twins) has been brought up on charges in an alleged rent-a-womb scheme that conned several Dutch couples out of money they thought was paying for Sonia Ringoir to carry their baby. More women have said Ringoir invited them over for "insemination parties," where she gave them a syringe full of her (now estranged) husband's sperm to use to inseminate themselves. Read More... Posted Dec 15 2008, 11:32 AM by JeanneSager with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: twins, adoption, multiples, liposuction, Jeanne Sager, birth mother, pregnancy weight, selling your baby, losing the weight, rent-a-womb

• Moms From Two Countries Bond Over Shared Sperm Donor

  They've never met. But they're parenting brothers. Sally is a British citizen who gave birth to son Alex in 2004. Riikka Turunen gave birth to son Kasper in six weeks later in her home country - Finland. Their sons' father? A sperm donor identified only as "Jens," sperm sample 3001, a Dane who likes football and plays jazz piano. Since finding each other online via the Donor Sibling Registry, they've been e-mailing back and forth over the thousands of miles that separate their lives. They plan to meet - along with Turunen's partner, Satu Sorjonen - in 2012. Read More... Posted Oct 05 2008, 03:02 PM by JeanneSager with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: adoption, IVF, sperm bank, fertility, artificial insemination, siblings, sperm donor, Jeanne Sager, donor sibling registry, birth father, birth mother