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…
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…
Many people come together, fall in love, and then decide to take the next step of beginning a family. But while most couples in this situation take the next step of pregnancy and childbirth, for some, this is a huge hurdle or one that is even impossible. There can be many different reasons for this….
For many people deciding to start a family, the cost of bringing a new life into the world is, theoretically, “free.” This is because sexual intercourse and the successful fertilization of an egg don’t necessarily cost any money, although the subsequent pregnancy and delivery do. But for some other couples, even the act of conception…
