Egg-Donor Conceived Teenager Talks About Her Feelings

by admin on August 28, 2010

This is a very interesting video where a young teenager that has been born with the help of an egg donor talks about how she feels about this.
She says that she is curious about the donor, but she also says that she accepts it and she sees it as a miracle that she even has been born, and she seems happy and content with it.

I think this is one of the best statements when it comes to egg donation.

According to experts, it is best to tell children at an early age that they have been conceived via egg donation. I agree with this. At a young age, they might not understand the exact mechanics of egg donation and genetic heritage, but they are already at ease with the idea that they have been brought into this world with special help.

Whereas for a teenager, their sense of identity has already been formed more completely, and revealing something like this to a teenager can be a shock to them and might make it more difficult for them to deal with the fact, rather than when they have grown up.

The teenager here even says that she talked to her friends about this, and how her mother had two miscarriages prior to giving birth to her, and that it is quite incredible that she has been brought into this world in such a different way.

I really want to encourage you to watch this video. It shows how healthy and psychologically strong a young woman can be, no matter if she has been conceived with an egg donor or not, if the parents do a good job at raising the child.

The only drawback is that she doesn’t look like her mom, because she is blond and tall, while her mother is tall and blonde. On the other hand, she has her mothers mannerisms, talks like her, walks like her and people notice those similarities. And in fact, the teenage kid even mentions that she is very proud of it, and never ashamed.

Even “real” parents could learn from how this family has raised her to be a confident, beautiful, intelligent young woman.

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New Hope Fertility Center Offers Unique Blastocyst Guarantee

by admin on August 19, 2010

Following is a press release by the New Hope Fertility Center:

Fertility Center is First to Offer Clients Guarantee of Higher Viability Embryo Implantation

New Hope Fertility Center, a leader in Egg Donation, now offers a unique guarantee designed to dramatically increase successful implantation rates and embryo viability. The New York based clinic has been a pioneer in In Vitro Fertilization techniques and the process of Egg Donation and strives to maintain its position as a leader in the industry with the latest techniques, such as their exclusive Blastocyst Guarantee.

In the donor process, the donor is given a medication to stimulate ovulation. These eggs are then fertilized with sperm from the recipient’s partner or from a sperm bank. Once fertilized, the developing embryos are harvested by a minimally invasive surgical collection process and implanted into the client. Traditionally, this has been done with two to three day old embryos consisting of only two to eight cells. On average, it would require 3-6 donor eggs to have an embryo reach the blastocyst stage at about day five. By exclusively transferring blastocyst embryos, New Hope Fertility Center has achieved a stunning implantation and clinical pregnancy rate of 46-47 percent.

The blastosyst implantation process can be done in conjunction with frozen embryo procedures, where the maturing embryo is frozen when it reaches the blastocyst stage, usually around day five. Then, transplantation can occur with the recipient’s own natural cycle, or maximized by hormone therapies to further increase chances of success, especially in woman using hormone replacement therapy. This eliminates the need for time-consuming or drug induced synchronization of donor and recipient. In addition, by waiting for maturation and focusing on the transplantation of single, or a maximum of two, embryos, the blastocyst process eliminates the chance of unplanned multiple pregnancies and lowers the risk for Caesarean sections and the medical complications associated with multiple births.

The New Hope Donor Program has completed over one hundred egg donor cycles since 2007 and is responsible for [# from NHFC] successful pregnancies. The clinic has partnered with New York’s cutting edge Webmaster Studio to create an exclusive donor database of over 60 women, approximately half of which already have frozen eggs available. This database includes information not just including racial background and medical history, but providing a physical description and detailing the donor’s educational level, personal hobbies and even baby pictures! Together with the Blastocyst Guarantee, these represent two of the features keeping New Hope Fertility Clinic on the cutting edge.

Company Contact Information
New Hope Fertility Center
Dr. John Zhang
Mari Santocildes, 784 Park Avenue
10021
Phone : 212-409-9634

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Celebrity Gays Having “Secret Babies” With Surrogacy & Egg Donation?

by admin on August 17, 2010

E-Online asks whether do in-the-closet gay celebs have secret babies? This is of course one example of how the yellow press is exploiting the fertility industry subject to get more eyeballs, and it is kind of sad to see that so much sensationalism is created around this.

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Global IVF has Gone Live with Part One

by admin on August 16, 2010

Global IVF has gone live with part one of three of their expert interviews with Dr. David Tourgeman. Dr Tourgeman is Board Certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Tourgeman talks specifically about how couples coming from overseas can best navigate the IVF, gestational surrogacy and egg donation process.
California, USA, August 13, 2010 (PRESSbooth.ORG) — Global IVF strives to bring you the most current and useful information regarding all things infertility related around the world. Geared specifically to patients looking to travel cross-border for cheaper, better, or more advanced fertility care. Every month, Global IVF features ‘experts’ in their field – a reproductive endocrinologist, a reproductive clinic, an embryologist, a reproductive lawyer, a medical tourism company, a therapist, etc. offering insight and advise about this burgeoning industry. Not only will you be privy to these expert’s inside information and expertise, with many of them you will have the chance to ask and get answers to your own specific questions!

Global IVF has gone live with part one of three of their expert interviews with Dr. David Tourgeman. Dr Tourgeman is Board Certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Dr. Tourgeman talks specifically about how couples coming from overseas can best navigate the IVF, gestational surrogacy and egg donation process. This is a growing area of interest for patients traveling for fertility treatments – often called “Fertility Tourism” – and Dr. Tourgeman is at the forefront of assisting these patients.

Dr. Tourgeman is Board Certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He then obtained his Medical Degree with honors at then University of Southern California. He continued at the University of Southern California where he performed his residency and fellowship training at the Los Angeles County Medical Center. He is currently on the Faculty of the University of Southern California.

Dr. Tourgeman’s area of interests include helping women of advancing maternal age, and has been a pioneer of outstanding success with both egg donation and gestational surrogacy. He is very active in helping women with egg cryo-preservation for either medical conditions such as cancer or for the purpose of fertility preservation so that advancing age will not necessarily affect their potential to conceive in the future.

Dr. Tourgeman strongest desire has been to help couples and patients to grow their families, and in 2005, joined HRC Fertility, the largest fertility program west of the Mississippi. He was an integral part of opening the West Los Angeles office, a practice that has flourished in helping many families realize their dreams.

Patients that have worked with Dr. Tourgeman, know that he is truly committed to helping them have a family. He is an experienced, knowledgeable, and compassionate physician that has pride in helping couples near and far, regardless of race, religion or sexual orientation obtain the ultimate dream: a family.

Please visit http://www.globalivf.com/expert-interviews.php at GlobalIVF.com to listen to Dr. David Tourgeman to learn more. While you are on Global IVF please take the time to sign up for our newsletters and join our online community. Your input and feed back are what makes Global IVF so successful!

About Global IVF:
To fill the niche in the ever-growing trend in cross-border travel for reproductive care, Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos and Lauri Berger de Brito founded Global IVF.com, the ultimate Global Guide devoted to Infertility and all related services available worldwide.

Free membership to GlobalIVF.com also includes bi-monthly newsletters and full access to Global IVF’s blogs and online chat forums, allowing intended parents to share experiences and collect advice about specific clinics and treatments currently offered worldwide.

About The Founders:
After working for a combined thirty-five years producing television shows for network and cable TV, Ms. Kaycoff-Manos and Ms. de Brito redirected their creative, managerial and people skills into helping others. It was years of their own personal fertility struggles — where the two independently underwent numerous fertility-related surgeries, alternative and controversial treatments, multiple miscarriages, IVFs, three egg donors and four surrogates before successfully having their own families – that naturally transformed them from television producers to baby producers.

In 2004, they opened Agency for Surrogacy Solutions, Inc. in Los Angeles, where they took their business acumen and compassion and created one of the world’s most successful and well-respected surrogacy agencies. They later expanded it to include Agency for Fertility Solutions, which offers fertility plans, financial counseling and personalized egg donor searches. Their dealings with fertility patients from across the globe alerted them to the strong need for a website where IVF travelers from all corners of the earth could find informative, up-to-date information on services worldwide, connect with experts, and share experiences with fellow IVF travelers in one place. To fill this ever-growing niche, GlobalIVF.com was created.

Besides bringing their heads and hearts to helping people unravel their fertility options, Ms. de Brito and Ms. Kaycoff-Manos have developed extremely strong relationships with the country’s top infertility clinics, psychologists, attorneys, and support personnel. Both women are sought-after speakers at fertility conferences and groups throughout the United States and on the internet. They’ve written and appeared in numerous magazine articles and on radio and television programs. Ms. de Brito and Ms. Kaycoff-Manos are currently collaborating on a book focusing on Cross-Border IVF Travelers.

GLOBAL IVF: To learn more about Global IVF, visit www.GlobalIVF.com. To advertise on the site, or to be a featured expert, email Marketing @ GlobalIVF.com or call 818.232.9300

Contact:
Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos
Global IVF
California, USA
818.232.9300
Marketing @ GlobalIVF.com

http://www.GlobalIVF.com

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