Surrogacy is the process of finding a healthy woman with the proper lifestyle and background and reaching an arrangement with her to become pregnant. After nine months, when she gives birth to a healthy baby, that infant is introduced to the couple that will become parents and starts a new life together as a family….
For millions of people around the world who dream of being a parent, infertility issues can seem like a slap in the face. Having a child can change your life forever, which is why taking the right steps towards parenthood is always important. Surrogacy is one option that offers plenty of possibilities, but that is…
For many people, one of the most momentous events in life is meeting someone else you know you love and deciding to spend the rest of your life with that person. For fortunate couples, this means a lifetime of love, disagreements, triumphs, and failures, but always together. So it’s natural that some point these same…
The decision to start a family is always going to be an expensive one, but for couples having a family in the traditional way, with natural pregnancy followed by childbirth, the expenses involved come at a later date. Some money is spent on medical support during the pregnancy and the cost of the hospital or…
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…
While it is often easy for a couple to decide to have a child, it may not be so easy to follow through on that and actually bring a child into the world. The traditional method of having children is, technically, “free,” in the sense that sexual intercourse and the resultant fertilization of an egg…
While it’s not unusual for couples that decide to spend their lives together to start a family, sometimes this decision can’t follow the traditional route. Most couples will, upon choosing to have a family, conceive a child, with the mother carrying that child to term in her uterus, until childbirth occurs, and the major task…
There is nothing cheap about the decision to start a family. In fact, over the decades, rearing a newborn from infancy to young adulthood—and sometimes beyond—is often one of the most expensive undertakings a couple will ever engage in. But for most couples, the investment in a child starts after childbirth, with food, clothing, the…
In one sense, there is always a high cost to having a child. Things like a hospital supervised birth, or even an experienced midwife is not free. And once the child is born, there is a lifelong commitment for ensuring the medical and financial welfare of that child, including saving up for something as significant…
People who are thinking about working with a surrogate mother to start a family are obviously not taking the easy route. However, while a natural pregnancy between a man and woman is the more common outcome, for some people, it may not always be feasible for all, especially for medical reasons. Some women may have…
