All Posts Tagged With: "IVF"

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22
Sep
2009

Ohio Mom Pregnant With Other Couple’s Baby After IVF mix-up

A pregnant Ohio mother that had the wrong embryos implanted into her will have to give her newborn up to his biological parents as soon as he is born.

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Sep
2009

Babyjoy For A Couple Who Used A New Egg-Screening Technique

After the trauma of two miscarriages, an ectopic pregnancy and 13 failed IVF attempts, a UK mom finally has her miracle baby after doctors devised a way of counting the chromosomes in eggs, allowing them to pick only the best for fertility treatment.

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30
Aug
2009

Expert Panel: Ontario Should Pay For In Vitro Fertilization

An expert panel on infertility and adoption, appointed by Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty last summer, is recommending that the Ontario government should provide funding for up to three cycles of in vitro fertilization for women under the age of 42.

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15
Jul
2009

Oldest mother, Maria Carmen del Bousada, Looses Cancer Battle Leaving Twins Behind

Sad news today…The Spanish woman who became the world’s oldest mother when she welcomed her twins in 2006 at the age of 66 has lost her fight with cancer, leaving the babies orphaned.

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8
Jun
2009

Texas Couple Expecting Sextuplets

After 2 unsuccessful tries at pregnancy, Amanda and Thomas Stansel are expecting sextuplets.

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5
Feb
2009

60-year-old Calgary Mother Welcomes Twins

Another 60 year old mom has delivered twins after successfully undergoing IVF treatment. Ranjit Hayer, tried for decades to have a child, enduring multiple miscarriages, surgery, even the trauma of being robbed by a fertility doctor.
She is believed to be among the oldest Canadian women to give birth.
The twin boys arrived seven weeks [...]

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31
Jan
2009

Octuplets Mom ‘Obsessed With Having Children’

The world was amazed this week after Californian mom Nadya Suleman, 33, welcomed octuplets, the second set ever to be born in the U.S.But the amazement quickly turned to concern after it was revealed the the 8 new babies would be joining their 6 siblings, who are all under the age 7.
Yesterday the octuplets grandma [...]

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31
Dec
2008

Mom Who Gave Birth At 70 Wants To Do It Again!

Rajo Devi, the mom who welcomed her first baby at 70, has decided that she would like do it again stating,
“It’s amazing to finally be a mother. I’ve waited for so long to have a baby of my own.
“The doctors said I was healthier than many women half my age. I’d love to [...]

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26
Nov
2008

Mom Uses Viagra For Infertility and Conceives Twins!

Lately there has been a lot of stories about the other medical benefits of Viagra. Just this week we heard about Calvin Mutessa who uses ‘little blue pill’ to control a rare condition called pulmonary arterial hypertension.
The Dailymail has a great story about Yvonne Finlayson and husband Mark Ruston’s journey to have a baby. [...]

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Nov
2008

20 Test-Tube Babies Born In One Day

October 30 was a busy day a the Sudha Hi-Tech IVF hospital in Erode, India.
As many as 20 test-tube babies were delivered through caesarean section at the private hospital.
The director of the hospital, Dr. S. Dhanabhagyam, did not wish to create a sensation around the feat, it was a ‘superstition’ that led to the [...]

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Oct
2008

Unregulated Sperm Donations Causing Problems In Australia

Unregulated sperm donation has led to a situation where children from the same community are potentially at risk for incestuous relationships.
Reverend Dr. Andrew Dutney, a reproductive technology expert in South Australia, said in one reported case, about 30 lesbians living in Adelaide, Australia, were impregnated by the sperm from one man.
Those mothers organized [...]

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15
Sep
2008

Court Refuses Widow’s Request To Use Husband’s Frozen Sperm To Become Pregnant

A state appellate court has decided that frozen sperm left behind by a deceased Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy cannot be used by his widow to become pregnant.
The deseased widow Iris Kievernagel, had petitioned the court for the rights to conceive a child from her late husband’s frozen sperm.
Iris’s husband Joseph died in a helicopter crash [...]

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