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What makes a 50-year-old want to get pregnant?
Bonnie Bernstein is almost 50 and she’s on a quest for a baby. A doctor told her two years ago that getting pregnant was still possible. Since then she’s been rather preoccupied with the idea.
She considers the DNA of men she meets. She sticks her neck out and mentions babies on first dates. Already the mother of a 23-year-old son, she’d like a repeat — conception, pregnancy, labor, the works. She’s giving herself a year to make it happen.
Reading Berstein’s essay on Babble’s main site this morning, three words came immediately to mind: Continue reading »
Surrogate mothers often try to remain out of the spotlight, but Christine Johnson’s job makes that hard. Johnson is a representative in the Utah Legislature.
She also happens to be a lesbian carrying a baby for two gay men in a committed relationship. Continue reading »
Claire Elisabeth Fields Cruise claims that she’s the biological mother of all three of Michael Jackson’s kids.
Only, get this: She neither donated eggs nor carried the children in her womb.
The “where did I come from” question is one most parents sweat about. Explaining their origins to your children is one of those major “don’t screw this up” parenting moments, because if you get it wrong at worst you damage their self-esteem and at best? You’re getting mocked every time they reminisce about their childhoods with their friends as an adult.
It’s even more fraught for parents who have had some sort of help to bring their children into the world. This NYT article talks about how parents whose children were carried by surrogates address that issue with their kids. Continue reading »
The term “death row” in relation to stored embryos sounds like the words of an anti-abortion crusader. They’re not.
It’s just what mom Michelle Hickman calls a five-year window granted by the British government to store a couple’s embryos. After that, they say they have to be destroyed. Continue reading »
The recurring theme in headlines in the last few days? They all claim Michael Jackson is not the dad of his kids.
But he was. And not just in a legal sense. Continue reading »
No, this isn’t some sick, twisted story wherein someone will end up their own grandpa. It’s actually kind of sweet.
A New Zealand woman has gotten the go-ahead to act as a surrogate for her own mother. In other words? She’ll carry her baby brother or sister in her belly for nine months. Continue reading »
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