Gay surrogacy and gay parenting. How to bring up a child?
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 November 2017 19:53
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Having a child is a very responsible step, and finding a surrogate mother for gay couples is one of the most uneasy decisions for gay couples. Nonetheless, more and more gay couples become happy parents of surrogate children.
Modern tendencies
There is a tendency for gay families to have equal rights and possibilities in many countries all over the world. Finding a surrogate through some agency is one of the best options in this case. Today surrogate agencies offer the most complete service packages for both gay parents and surrogate mothers. Apart from service packages, cooperation with agency guarantees respecting the rights of every part of the contract. It’s very important to keep up with all the medical nuances and to provide the best medical support for the surrogate mother, because the ultimate goal of the process is giving a birth to a healthy and happy child. Every child deserves a family, as well as every loving family deserves having a baby.
Impact of stress on the future posterity
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- Published on Friday, 09 August 2013 07:49
Scientists have been observing for a long that children born from fathers who had lived through chronic stress, had a high tendency to psychiatric pathologies. Recent study, conducted by experts of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, showed that sperm formed under stress is defective. It leads to disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary regulation of those areas of brain that are responsible for psycho-emotional state. These results proved the hypothesis that chronic stress of father, resulting in changes in the germ cells, leads to abnormalities in the nervous system of a child.
It is interesting that there is another experiment, conducted in parallel with the first one, which is also devoted to the impact of parents’ stress on the next generation. Scientists from the University of Haifa in Israel have proved on mice that maternal stress during pregnancy affects offspring's genes, namely, causes changes in gene expression associated with the mechanisms of adaptation, first at the level of an egg, and then into the brain tissues of the offspring . "If only behavioral effects have been found as evidence of this fact so far, now we can see the changes on the genetic level," - explains Prof. Micah Leshem. Of course, mice - are not women, but it is quite possible that a similar mechanism is laid in human nature.
Obesity reduces chances for successful IVF
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 August 2013 10:13
At the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in London Spanish researchers presented their findings on the impact of female body weight on the efficiency of IVF. The scientists have studied more than 9500 cases of IVF in various clinics of the country between 2000 and 2011 years and have concluded that overweight women who pass in vitro fertilization procedure, get pregnant less often than women with normal weight. "Based on our results, we can say that the chance of having a child of obese women is decreased by about one-third",- says doctor Jose Bellver from Valencia Infertility Institute.
Researchers have compared the body mass index (BMI) of women who have been trying to conceive a child with IVF. It was found that increasing of BMI significantly decreased the frequency of embryo’s implantation in the uterus and number of pregnancies, accordingly. For example, the birth rate among slim women was 38.6%, 37.9% - among women with normal weight, 34.9% - among overweight women and 27.7% among women suffering from obesity. The frequency of the embryo’s implantation in the uterus was 40.4% among slim women - 39.9% among women with normal weight, 38.5% - among women who are overweight and 30.9% - among those who have obesity.
Has it become possible to obtain sperm "artificially"?
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 August 2013 11:46
An important research from the point of view of fighting against infertility was conducted by biotechnologists at
Indian couples are looking for European donors
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- Published on Friday, 02 August 2013 14:01
Once again, they started talking in the world about donation and infertility, but this time from a different perspective: infertile couples in
It is known, that people from different East European countries usually become donors for the Indians. The cost of embryos depends on health and education of donors and varies according to the region. European Donors are usually paid from 1 to 5 thousand dollars (although the Canadians, for example, get no monetary compensation, as this is prohibited by law). But neither bureaucratic procedures, nor serious material costs can reduce the desire of Indians to have a light-skinned child.