For couples that wish to have a child, but have come across some serious complications—medical or otherwise—to a natural childbirth, there are some big challenges. The most common and traditional method of starting a family is for a couple to allow the woman to get pregnant, nurture a developing baby, and give birth nine months…
It’s natural for people who decide to spend the rest of their lives together to want to take an even bigger step. The most natural next stage is to start a family, having children and raising them. Unfortunately, that process of pregnancy and giving birth to a healthy child isn’t one that is always available…
Surrogate motherhood is not a fast or easy way for a hopeful family to bring a child into the world. But for some couples, this may be the only way have a child that still carries on the genetic characteristics of both a mother and a father, even when traditional childbirth methods aren’t safe, or…
For most people, having a child is, one sense, “free.” The act of sexual intercourse normally doesn’t cost any money between a couple, and the process of a sperm being introduced to an egg, fertilizing it, and then attaching to a uterus to grow, over a period of nine months, also doesn’t technically cost any…
It is not a very common topic of everyday discussion, but for some people hoping to start a family, surrogacy is one method to achieve the dream. Some couples, usually for medical reasons, find it either difficult or even medically impossible to achieve pregnancy and childbirth naturally. However, they still wish to have their own…
A hopeful family that decides to go with a surrogate mother in order is not usually exercising their first choice. In most cases, the reason the decision is made because of failed attempts, such as multiple miscarriages, or even a doctor’s warning that it is medically unsafe for the mother, child or both, to attempt…
Many couples who are starting to think about the possibility of surrogate motherhood have a lot to learn. Under ordinary circumstances, many people wanting to start a family will usually try to conceive naturally, then let the mother carry the baby for nine months and hopefully have a safe delivery at the end of it….
For many people, the journey of life is built on a series of well-established, predictable steps. Most people expect to go to school, grow up, fall in love, start a career, get married and eventually start a family. But how people achieve these goals will vary from one person to the next. And in the…
While most people are familiar with the word “cancer,” what cancer is can be far-ranging and widespread in both health impact and specific symptoms. In some ways, the word cancer is a “catch-all term,” referring to any number of different parts of the body, or conditions in which the cells of our body no longer…
It’s normal for people to fall in love, decide to spend the rest of their lives together and then, one day when they feel they are mentally and financially prepared, commit to the idea of having children and raising a family. But sometimes, people taking this next step towards a family find that their efforts…
