Do you need a surrogate mother to be a mother?

Posted in Interview with, No category / 10-11-12

One of the methods to wich couples, gays couples and single mothers demand when they cannot have children is a surrogate motherhood through a surrogacy agency, not in Spain because is not allowed, but in United States. Extraordinary Conceptions. LLC. is the leader surrogacy in United States, and tells us through this interview with one of their specialists, Stephanie M. Caballero, everything you should know about surrogate motherhood.

.- What is surrogate motherhood?

A caring woman who wants to help you have a family

.- What are the functions of a surrogacy agency?

We educate you and guide you through out the process by acting as a link between you and your surrogate from the matching process up until you are back to your Country safe with your new born. We are here for you every step of the way to make sure it is a smooth and easy process

.- Are there people who envisage this option as a commercialization with the will of people to become parents? If they are we don’t work with people that sees this process as “commercialization”, It won’t be acceptable as a principal. We only help future parents that are doing the cycle for their own propose of achieving to have a family on their own.

.- What types of surrogate motherhood are there?

There traditional and gestational surrogates.

.- If a single person or couple in Spain wanted to resort to surrogate motherhood and would be willing to hire the services and advice of the agency, what are the steps she or he would have to take?

1st step will be to have a conference call between the agency and the intended parent, that way we know more about what are they looking for in a surrogate. We will provide a list of the surrogates that are best for the IP.

2nd Agency will refer IP to IVF clinics if one has not being chosen by the IP.

3rd Complete intended parent profile in order for surrogate to get to know the IP prior to the match

4th Once IP has the meeting with GC of their choice and the parties chose to move forward the next step will be for the GC to start the medical screening process with the IVF Clinic
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Single mothers by choice

Posted in News Reports / 16-07-12

Almost 40% of the women to resort to a fertility treatment do it on their own

There are more and more women every day who decide to be single mothers without the support of a couple and they do it through assisted reproduction techniques. Almost 40% of the women who undergo these kind of treatments do it alone, according to updated data offered by the clinics of assisted reproduction. This increase has also been favoured by the obstacles faced by these women when they try to adopt a child in their own countries or aborad. The lastest data of the Spanish Institute of Fertility talk about more than 1,500 women annually who decide to be single mothers by means of a donor in Spain; this number must be increased with the foreign women who undergo these treatments in Spain because the laws in their countries are not so permissive.

Tourism for reproduction purposes is becoming very important in Spain. In France, for example, assisted reproduction treatments are only available and allowed to heterosexual couples, married or proving that they have lived together for two years, only if they meet the fertile age, which their assisted reproduction law envisages. In Italy, it is exactly the same. In Portugal, it is legal for married couples or couples who have lived together for two years, provided that they have not separated by any means. In Germany, there is no regulation about this but the social security does not cover it when gametes of a donor are needed. Also, in Austria, women without a couple are neither allowed to be mothers through assited reproduction tecnhiques. Continue reading →

Mother through ova donation

Posted in Interview with / 13-09-12

Iki García

Mother through ova donation

Suddenly, one day your instinct of maternity awakens. However, weeks and months go by and even years and the desire to become a mother gets frustrated. The gynaecologist has the answer to so much uncertainty; your own ova do not fecundate. Confused emotions fill your heart and the word ova donation is mentioned for the first time. Another woman´s ova could fulfill your desire of becoming a mother. They are not your own genes but does it really matter?

Many more women go through this situation every day. A late maternity, a fertility problem …. However, the new Spanish Reproduction Assisted Law, which is one of the most progressive in Europe, offers you one last chance: a donated ovum. IkiGarcía is a psychologist and mother of twins through ova donation, besides she is the facilitator of the ova donation psychology forum foroes.net.

By Rosa Maestro

.- Why and when did you decide to resort to ova donation?

“When I was finally determined to become a mother, I realized that I could not get pregnant with my usual partner. We decided then to see the social security doctor specialized on infertility, and they carried out some tests and the diagnosis was an alteration in my hormonal values, but they did not tell me anything else. I was 40 years old at that time. As a result of another problem of my partner we were diverted to another autonomous region and I was turned down because of my age, 41. Then I went to a private clinic of which I had very good references; they examined the tests of the public health system and they told me hat it was difficult for me to get pregnant with my own ova. It was a big disappointment for me because I was persuaded that there would be a solution to my hormone problem. The gynaecologist spoke to me very clearly and straight forward and told me that I could try it with my own ova but it depended on how much money I was ready to spend and how many times I was willing to try, but the probabilities were scarce. Then he spoke to me about ova donation and its feasibility. I was rather reluctant at first and I asked what he would do in my case. He told me straight forward, ova donation. I wanted to die. My partner was determined from the very first moment but it took me some time to make up my mind. I remember it was late October 2006 and I did not go back to the doctor until January 2007”. Continue reading →

Do you want to be a single mother by choice?

Posted in No category / 16-09-12

Do you want to be a single mother?

If you want to be a mother but you don´t have a boyfriend or you have a girlfriend, in Spain the law on assisted reproduction gives you access to a treatment of a donor-assisted reproduction. Every year 40 of Spanish women who undergo one of these treatments in Spain are single women. If you want to be a single mother by choice, contact with www.masola.org(masola.org@gmail.com). on this website you can provide information, help or recommend some clinics that also being single make us special discounts and get in touch with professionals. www.masola.org is the only Spain specialised website in single-parent families and single mothers by choice.

FIV Valencia offers 10% on treatments

Posted in Assisted reproduction clinics, Single-parent family offers / 16-07-12

FIV VALENCIA joins the clinics which offer discount to women without a partner who would like to become mothers, a 10% in all the treatments. You just have to fill in the attached discount form in the following link (if you cannot open it, copy it in your computer:

www.fivvalencia.es

CREA VALENCIA: 10% discount to single women

Posted in Assisted reproduction clinics, Single-parent family offers / 16-07-12

Treating infertility is much more than succeeding in pregnancy. It means “Creating” and above all it means helping to Create a family. Consequently, in CREA we are proud of being able to offer reproduction assisted treatments by means of a personal and appropriate diagnosis to any woman who wants to become a mother and who has no partner. Being conscious of the needs of these women, CREA VALENCIA offers a 10% discount to www.masola.org users in all our treatments. www.crea.ws

IMFER (MURCIA): First visit free and offer 10% on treatments

Posted in Assisted reproduction clinics, Single-parent family offers / 20-10-12

First visit free

10 % on assisted reproduction treatments

10 % on other treatments

40 % on fertility test

www.imfer.com

Would you keep the umbilical cord?

Posted in News Reports / 16-07-12

WOULD YOU KEEP THE UMBILICAL CORD OF YOUR BABY?

In Spain, there are many umbilical cord private banks, which offer parents the possibility to preserve the cord of their newborn baby for life for an amount between 1.000 and 2.000 euro. This has become trendy following the initiative of the Prince and Princess of Asturiaswhen they decided to store part of Leonor cord, their eldest daughter.

In 2011, the number of umbilical cords stored in Spain amounted to about 50.000, 28.000 of them in private banks. About 5.000 are collected every year and with double this amount all the needs would be fulfilled. The number of Spanish people who wish to keep and preserve the umbilical cord of their babies is growing every day. However, in spite of the Act RD 1301/2006, the law is quite restrictive. Parents are allowed to keep the blood of their baby cord but they must be aware of the fact that should the Public Health System request it, they ought to donate it to them. So, the only choice is to have it stored abroad. Continue reading →

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