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Finding A Stork
Monday 9 November 2015
Carrying That Weight
Being pregnant is hard work! A support band like this one can help relieve the joint pain and muscle aches that often come from the ‘heavy lifting’ of carrying a child to term.
Any Couple Can Share the Joy of Raising Children
Like heterosexual couples, many
people in same-sex marriages or relationships eventually turn their
attention to having children and starting a family. Since conventional
means of conception are not physiologically viable for gay and lesbian
couples, family planning is often more complicated. There are a number
of different ways a homosexual couple might choose to have children.
A same-sex couple might elect to adopt
their new child. This option bypasses the need for biological
conception, but it can be extremely time consuming dealing with various
agencies, legal requirements and waiting periods.
Prospective lesbian parents could induce
pregnancy through IVF, a medical procedure that involves an egg being
retrieved from one of the mothers and fertilized in a lab by sperm from a
donor before being implanted back in the mother, who then carries the
pregnancy to term.
Both gay and lesbian parents might also
choose to have their child carried by a surrogate mother. The surrogate
is found, screened and selected through an agency and once one has been
decided on, the IVF process is carried out using sperm from one of the
fathers and an egg from a donor, or an egg from one of the mothers and
sperm from a donor. The egg is then implanted in the surrogate, who will
birth the couple’s child. Click here to learn about finding an egg donor in El Cajon.
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