There is an interesting article in the BBS about a couple that conceived a baby with the help of an egg donor and a surrogate:
After having breast cancer three times, Claire Horner was told not to try for any more children in case her cancer returned.
Desperate for a brother or sister for her son Jack, Claire turned to her husband, Dennis for his sperm, an egg donor and a woman who agreed to be a surrogate mother in order to fulfil her dream.
What is interesting is that the surrogates where not paid. A lot of people say surrogacy and egg donation is a dirty business, because people get paid for it, but I really think it is not. It is a service that is provided, and as cases like these prove, some women even do this completely unselfishly and without any kind of expectation for a financial reward, which is very admirable.
You can read the whole BBC story here.
"I was devastated and so was my husband after being told by my fertility specialist at age 38 that I had no option but to consider adoption or donor eggs (according to my doctor I was out of eggs and gave me 4% chance of getting pregnant and a 2% chance of carrying a baby to full term). After much research and dozens of hours reading infertility related articles and posts online, I have found your book! [...] After one month of trying I became pregnant and had a beautiful healthy boy. Nine months after that I did everything in your book again and after 2 months of trying I got pregnant again and gave birth to another perfect little boy."
