According to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, more than 1,400 U.S. babies were born this way in 2010, and many more such births are thought to go unreported. This small, but fast-growing field is fraught with risk, and often intense coordination is the only way to avoid a legal nightmare.
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Recommendations for Practices Utilizing Gestational Carriers
As part of their on-going mission to help member physicians provide the best in patient care, the joint Practice Committees of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) are pleased to announce the publication of a new document- Recommendations for Practices Utilizing Gestational Carriers.
Looking for the right surrogate? A new site rates surrogacy agencies
We recently read about the launch of Surrogacy Advisor, a new site that offers ratings of surrogacy agencies from parents who’ve used a surrogate to carry their child. The site also includes reviews and ratings of fertility clinics.
Surrogacy Advisor appears to be just getting started, so there’s definitely not a comprehensive list of agencies and clinics represented (and some are outside the U.S.), but over time it could become a valuable tool to help would-be parents who are looking for a reputable surrogate or a clinic to work with — one that others in their situation rated highly. At press time, just 11 surrogacy agencies had ratings, with between three and 22 reviews for each. You can see the average cost for surrogacy at each rated agency, and how long the surrogacy “journey” took, on average, in months.
For fertility clinics, you can see a clinic’s overall score (based on a survey completed by parents who used it), the total number of reviews (at press time, CT Fertility had the highest rating, and also the greatest number of reviews – 26, compared to as few as three for many clinics — though only 10 clinics were listed, including a few outside the U.S.), as well as the percentage of patients who filled out the survey who conceived on the first cycle.
If you’re a prospective parent you can click here to complete a survey for an agency, and the site includes videos and articles about surrogacy as well.
Would you use a service like Surrogacy Advisor?
The Highs and Lows of Foreign Surrogacy
Adrienne Arieff went through three miscarriages before she learned she was unable to carry a child. Her search for a solution brought her to India, where she found a woman willing to carry her and her husband’s embryo in a controversial practice known as foreign gestational surrogacy.
It takes a village to have a child – and then some!
by Ken Mosesian
So you want to have children? Great! LGBT persons have more options than ever before, such as third-party reproduction, including surrogacy and egg donation, Intra Uterine Insemination (IUI), In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) …