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Risks to mother & child from aggressive IVF

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:28:09 +0000

Professor Geeta Nargund, head of reproductive medicine at St George's Hospital in south London, has voiced her concerns at a conference in Copenhagen about aggressive and unnecesary IVF procedures.

Professor Nargund said there was increasing evidence that stimulating the ovaries with high doses of drugs to produce large numbers of eggs for harvesting, was damaging to women's health and caused chromosomal abnormalities to resulting embryos. This is the standard method of IVF used in the UK.

Professor Nargund said: "High-dose stimulation can have distressing side effects on the woman, the most serious of which is called Ovarian Hyper-stimulation Syndrome (OHSS). This condition in its severe form is potentially fatal and women have died. A recent confidential inquiry into maternal deaths in the UK showed that OHSS was now one of the biggest causes of maternal mortality in England and Wales."

Professor Nargund went on to state, "There is no doubt that women subjected to this kind of stimulation are at serious health risk."

HFEA figures
Figures obtained from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) showed that between between 1991 and 2007 there were almost 30,000 cases of OHSS - which can cause chest pains, shortness of breath, and in rare cases, kidney failure and death. In 2010, 45,000 women were given IVF treatment in the UK.

Mild IVF treatment
Using "mild" IVF with less toxic drugs to stimulate the ovaries produces fewer eggs and a lower pregnancy rate per cycle but means recovery is quicker and women can repeat the treatment within a month, whereas it takes months to recover from standard IVF.

Treatment in other clinics
Clinics in other countries, such as Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, France, Canada, Japan and South Korea use mild IVF, whereas the high-dose version of treatment is favoured the US and the UK.

IVF cost implications
Aggressive IVF treatment is also considerably more expensive than milder IVF treatment.

Looking for a sperm donor

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:45:13 +0000

We are a lesbian couple looking to start our family. We live in the fort worth area in texas. If you are in that area or can get to that area and want to help us out then write me a message. Thanks!

I need a sperm donor North west!!

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:45:30 +0000

Hello me and my partner are looking for a sperm donor in the north west if you think you could help please get in touch :)
Thank you

Jennifer Lopez would consider adoption

Tue, 15 May 2012 07:09:31 +0000

Jennifer Lopez confessed that it would be a "blessing" to be a mother once again and said that she was open to adopting a child in a meeting with the press in Los Angeles to present her latest film, this one based on the best-seller about pregnancy "What To Expect When You're Expecting".

Pregnancy issues and children
The 42-year-old singer and actress revealed details about how she fared during her pregnancy with twins Emme and Max, who have just turned 4, the physical changes, memory losses, her post partum depression and how motherhood changed her life. "I want them to be well, that is the main thing for me. The rest will come later. I'm going day by day," Lopez, who said she was relying on the support of "a big family".

Jennifer is currently preparing a summer tour of North America.

Film role
The actress said she was happy with how things are going when she spoke at the press conference with cast members Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Banks, Anna Kendrick, Wendi McLendon-Covey, "What To Expect When You're Expecting" is an ensemble film that tells the stories of several different pregnancies. In the film, Lopez is in a relationship with Brazilian Rodrigo Santoro and together they decide to begin legal procedures to adopt a little Ethiopian boy.

Open to adoption
The singer said that her role in the film opened her eyes to adoption, something that she had never thought about before.

IVF ICSI risk

Fri, 18 May 2012 08:43:11 +0000

A study has found that 300,000 babies born using an IVF fertility treatment for men with low sperm counts
had a higher risk of abnormalities than those conceived naturally.

ICSI
The IVF treatment is Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) is a process whereby a single sperm is injected into the egg to be fertilized.Babies conceived in this way were more likely to suffer abnormalities.

No link established
However, researchers were unable to establish if this was because the technique itself increases the risks of abnormality in children, or because men suffering from sperm damage (and so a low sperm count) were more likely to pass on anomalies to their children. ICSI is used in around half of all fertility treatments in the UK.

The research also found traditional IVF did not significantly increase the risk of defects. In traditional IVF, sperm and eggs are mixed in a dish and sperm fertilizes the egg on its own.

Birth defects figures
The research, led by the Robson Institute at the University of Adelaide and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, examined 309,000 births in South Australia. Of these, 1,878 involved ICSI. The study found the risk of a birth defect was 5.8 per cent for natural conception, compared with 7.2 per cent following conventional IVF, and 9.9 per cent after ICSI.

We need your sperm! Can you help?

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:49:24 +0000

Hello so me and my partner of 5 years are ready to start a family we are both in steady jobs me being in the art sector and my partner working in health care we would like a AI donor and would cover travel expenses
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Sperm is property in separation

Sat, 19 May 2012 01:20:45 +0000

A Canadian judge ordered a lesbian couple who have separated to share 13 vials of donor sperm, allowing one to have another child with her new partner.

The couple – identified as ANA and JCM in court records – split in 2007 after each bore a child from sperm of the same sperm donor. As part of the separation they divided their assets equally, but the semen straws stored in a Vancouver fertility clinic were forgotten about.

The dispute began in 2009 when JCM asked for access to the sperm so she could have another baby related to the first two children. However, ANA said she would rather see the sperm destroyed.

Sperm divided equally
“I find that the remaining 13 gametes should be divided between the parties. Assuming it is not possible, or that it is impractical, to divide one sperm straw in half, I award seven sperm straws to the claimant, JCM, and six sperm straws to the respondent, ANA,” BC Supreme Court Justice Loryl Russell wrote in the ruling, released Thursday.

The judge also ruled that if the odd straw couldn’t be divided, JCM should pay her ex-wife $250, or how much they paid for the sperm originally.

Out of options
JCM took the case to court because she was out of options. She had already approached the American company that sold her the sperm, but the man was no longer on file. JCM also approached a family that had used the same donor, but they had no semen straws remaining.

Sperm treated as property
The judge said that even though there is more emotional attachment in this case, the sperm should still be treated as property. “The respondent’s moral objections to the commercialization of reproduction, or the commoditization of the body, seem to me to be too late,” Russell wrote in the ruling.

Age and IVF

Fri, 18 May 2012 03:31:25 +0000

Due to career choices, work pressures, debt and a host of other factors many women are putting off having children until their thirties. In the US at least 1 in 12 women has their first child after the age of 35.

It is widely knowne that natural fertility drops off significantly from the age of 30 onwards. This is the reason many women in their 30s and 40s resort to IVF treatment.

However, the success of IVF treatments falls significantly after 40. In some of these cases women are using donated eggs, rather than their own. Partly because they are producing few eggs anyway.

Other women are planning ahead and having their own eggs frozen when they are younger, in case they are needed later, though this does seem to be an expensive option.

However, ultimately the biological clock keeps ticking and it cannot be turned back.

Read more at: huffingtonpost.com

Also see our own information on IVF treatments

Egg donor fees increase in the UK

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:10:26 +0000

The fees paid to egg donors in the UK were officially increased on 1st April 2012.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) announced in October 2011 that payments to egg donors would be revised and increased.

Under the new payments scheme clinics will pay egg donors a fixed fee of £750 per donation cycle. However, unlike sperm donation this figure includes all expenses incurred by the egg donor, such as travel expenses and loss of earnings.

The new guidance also keeps the practice of benefits in kind offered by some fertility clinics. For example, some clinics offer free or reduced fee IVF treatment to women who also donate their eggs, either for treatment used by another woman or for research purposes, this practice is known as "egg sharing".

New sperm donation policies and payment in the UK

Tue, 15 May 2012 16:32:27 +0000

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) announced in October 2011 that payments to sperm donors would be revised and increased. These changes came into force on 1st April 2012.

Under the new payments scheme clinics will be able to pay sperm donors a fixed sum of £35 per clinic visit, plus expenses. However, the significant change is that expenses will not be limited.

Under the previous scheme expenses and loss of earnings payments to sperm donors were capped at £250.

The removal of this cap will mean that sperm donors will be able to claim all their travel expenses and loss of earnings. The reality is that the change has been made to retain and reward sperm donors and encourage more donors and donations.

The payment per visit has been kept deliberately low to avoid putting a high monetary price on the act of donation. But, the removal of the cap on expenses and loss of earnings allows payments to donors to increase, possibly substantially.

It is a very difficult balancing act - the HFEA want (and need) to increase the number of donors, but want to avoid attracting those motivated solely by money.

However, as most clinics are commercial organisations they will have to pay more to attract new donors and retain existing donors. The use of expenses as a cover for increased payments seems inevitable.

As clinics will be making these payments to donors the cost of treatment to their patients may increase to cover these increased costs.

Elizabeth Banks thanks birth control pills

Thu, 17 May 2012 05:18:26 +0000

Elizabeth Banks, star of The Hunger Games credits birth control pills for helping to have her 1 year-old son Felix via a surrogate mother.

The birth control pill was prescribed to her to regulate the pain of hormonally induced migraines and cramps.

The pill is often prescribed during IVF treatment. Women are given the pill to help regulate their cycles so that they might have a more successful IVF. The pill is also used to manage ovarian cysts, endometriosis and other conditions as well.

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Fri, 18 May 2012 19:49:06 +0000

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Lesbian sperm donation court battle

Thu, 17 May 2012 04:59:06 +0000

A lesbian who took the biological daughter of her partner to Australia has sparked a global debate on the question of motherhood and egg donors.

Police officers
The American women, known only in the court papers as their initials, are both in their 30s and were police officers in Florida. One partner donated an egg that was fertilized and implanted in the other, who gave birth in 2004, nine years into their relationship.

Separation
The couple separated two years later, and the birth mother eventually left without a trace taking the child with her. The woman who donated the egg, and calls herself the biological mother, used a detective to track her former partner down.

Australia
The detective found her ex-girlfriend, the birth mother, and the now eight-year-old girl living in Australia.

Gay rights and egg donor rights
The egg donor has now launched a ground-breaking custody battle in the Florida Supreme Court, creating problems whether the constitutional right to procreate includes outside-the-body technologies used to conceive. Also at debate is the constitutional question about gay people’s right to raise children and claim equal protection under law.

Conflicting rights
A trial judge ruled in favor of the birth mother, and said the biological mother has no parental rights under state law which states egg donors ‘relinquish all maternal or paternal rights’. The 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach sided with the biological mother, saying both have parental rights. The birth mother cites the state's law on sperm and egg donation to argue the biological mother wasn't the child's parent. In response, the lawyers of the biological mother state she was not a donor as she also raised the child. In the Court of Appeal, the judges said: ‘Their separation does not dissolve the parental rights of either woman, nor does it dissolve the love and affection either has for the child.'

Read more at: gaystarnews.com

I need Advice for this

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:57:55 +0000

My boyfriend lives 4hours away from me, but it takes 2 days for the mail to get here..
I want a baby, but I don't know how we would be able to deliver the sperm through mail.
I need advice.
Please help me!

Looking for sperm donor near Ottawa Ontario Canada

Tue, 15 May 2012 06:40:07 +0000

Strong, healthy Independant woman looking to have a child on her own.

Looking for no strings attached sperm donation, Ai only, not looking for any sexual contact or relationships.
Willing to have future contact with donor with photos or emails allowing a glimpse into the life of the child until after they are old enough to make the decision on their own, also open to no contact.
thanks :)

lo

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:23:27 +0000