For most people who meet and fall in love, deciding to spend their lives together is a natural, joyous journey that may eventually move onto the desire to start a family. Many couples taking that next step find it easy and natural to transition into that stage; it’s just a matter of allowing the woman…
When people meet, fall in love and decide that this is the person they want to spend the rest of their lives with, there may come a time when two people aren’t enough, and that couple is ready to start a family and rear the next generation. However, while many couples take the next step…
Many people follow the accepted path on the journey of life of meeting someone, falling in love, and ultimately deciding to start a family with that person. But not everyone can easily make it to that next step of starting a family. Some women have had life-threatening illnesses, and their lives were only saved with…
Not every couple can easily transition to starting a family by allowing the woman in the relationship to get pregnant. For many, this is the most common step on the journey to family, but for some, medical considerations, such as a history of miscarriages, or even a medical condition like heart disease, meaning that a…
The concept of surrogate motherhood, while simple, has come a long way. As a technique, it is millennia old, and even appears in the Bible when certain religious couples, unable to bear children naturally, turned towards a surrogate mother to have a child. Today, however, surrogacy now uses much more advanced, safe medical technology to…
Surrogacy is not a new concept, although much of the medical technology behind surrounding has made incredible advances in recent years. The basic idea, however, remains the same. When a hopeful family finds that they are unable—either for medical or other reasons—to naturally give birth to a child, surrogacy is an alternative to adoption. Surrogacy…
Surrogate motherhood is a process that allows a family unable to have their own newborn child to engage the services of another woman for this purpose. That woman takes on the role of the surrogate mother, becomes pregnant, and, upon the safe birth of the child, unites that child with the parents who struck the…
People all over the world find someone else they want to spend the rest of their lives with, and then take things to the next level, by starting a family. But while most people can go the conventional route of allowing a woman to become pregnant, and then giving birth to a child nine months…
When some couples face major obstacles in having their own newborn child, sometimes surrogacy is the only way to solve the problem if adoption isn’t on the table. Surrogacy is when a couple goes to another woman, negotiates and establishes an agreement where the woman agrees to undertake pregnancy in the method required by the…
Starting a family is, for most people, a big decision, but the path towards having children is linear and well-understood, by allowing the woman in the couple to become pregnant, and then, nine months later, delivering a baby. Unfortunately, it is not always this straightforward for some couples. In certain circumstances, a woman may be…
