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• NYT Asks: Are There Too Many Ways to Conceive?

  Lisa Belkin over at the NYT's Motherlode blog wonders if the pursuit-of-parenthood market may be oversaturated.  Citing the recent examples of the Sarah Jessica Parker/Matthew Broderick surrogate twins and the woman attempting to become a surrogate grandmother by using her dead son's sperm, Belkin asks if science -- with its IVF, egg donations, fertility drugs and other advances -- has perhaps given us too many options. She quotes The Washington Post's Liza Mundy, who recently wrote a book about assisted reproduction: "When there is always something else to try ... there is no permission to stop. That’s the hardest part of the process for couples. For most of them, the ‘permission’ to stop comes when they run out of money." Mundy mentions a key word there: money. Read More... Posted Apr 29 2009, 07:29 PM by Jen Chaney with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: IVF, infertility, Conception, Egg donation, surrogacy, economy, getting pregnant over 40, conceive, Lisa Belkin, Jen Chaney, sperm donation, new york times, motherlode, science and pregnancy

• Conceiving a Child to Save a Life

  At age 47, Pam Obadia is trying to conceive her second child. But that's not what makes the Vancouver mother's situation controversial. Obadia and her husband Mike have an 8-year-old with leukemia. Currently undergoing chemotherapy and unable to find a match that will allow him to get a bone marrow transplant, the boy's prognosis is not promising. So the Obadias are hoping to give birth to another infant and use the stems cells from the newborn's umbilical cord to save their existing child's life. Read More... Posted Apr 16 2008, 12:02 PM by Jen Chaney with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: IVF, stem cells, leukemia, bone marrow transplant, Jodi Picoult, getting pregnant over 40, invitro fertilization