Woman Gives Friends the Gift of Children—Free of Charge
Lianna Fives heard about Nicole Barattini's plight through a mutual friend—because of a rare blood disorder, Barattini couldn't risk carrying a child because she or the baby would likely die—and made...
View Article'I Carried My Own Child. I Didn't Know He Was Mine'
"I carried my own child. I didn't know he was mine." That's what a California woman is saying after she became pregnant with her own son while serving as a surrogate for a Chinese couple. After...
View ArticleWhen You Give Up Every Penny You Have for a Baby
Kelli Auerbach ditched her car, vacations, any social outing that required money, and even her own place for six months—living for free with friends in a different state—all so she could stockpile...
View Article28-Year-Old Single Dad of 16 Close to Getting All His Kids
The son of a Japanese IT billionaire reportedly wanted a big family and set out to get it via surrogate. Now, Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, is about to gain custody of all 16 kids he is known to have fathered...
View ArticleA Terrible Loss, Then Something 'Sweet'
A Chinese couple have had their parenthood dream realized, though nearly five years after their deaths. A baby boy was born to a surrogate in December from a fertilized embryo frozen by the couple. It...
View ArticleParents Tell Surrogate to Abort Triplet, She Refuses
When 26-year-old Brittneyrose Torres of Thousand Oaks, Calif., read on Facebook about a couple who couldn't have children, she decided to try surrogacy and agreed to carry one of their children for...
View ArticleSurrogate, Told to Abort, Sues the Father
A complicated case has become even more so after a surrogate mom of triplets refused the biological dad's demand to abort one of the fetuses. Melissa Cook says she was threatened with financial ruin by...
View ArticleTyra Banks Has a Son via Surrogate
"When I turned 40," former supermodel Tyra Banks once told People , "the one thing I was not happy about is that I did not have kids." All that has changed with the birth of Banks' son, York Banks...
View ArticleUK Woman One Step Closer to Carrying Dead Daughter's Child
A 60-year-old woman from the UK who's been in a protracted legal battle to become pregnant using her dead daughter's frozen eggs has made some progress toward winning that fight, the BBC reports. After...
View ArticleWoman Gives Friends the Gift of Children—Free of Charge
Lianna Fives heard about Nicole Barattini's plight through a mutual friend—because of a rare blood disorder, Barattini couldn't risk carrying a child because she or the baby would likely die—and made...
View Article'I Carried My Own Child. I Didn't Know He Was Mine'
"I carried my own child. I didn't know he was mine." That's what a California woman is saying after she became pregnant with her own son while serving as a surrogate for a Chinese couple. After...
View ArticleWhen You Give Up Every Penny You Have for a Baby
Kelli Auerbach ditched her car, vacations, any social outing that required money, and even her own place for six months—living for free with friends in a different state—all so she could stockpile...
View Article28-Year-Old Single Dad of 16 Close to Getting All His Kids
The son of a Japanese IT billionaire reportedly wanted a big family and set out to get it via surrogate. Now, Mitsutoki Shigeta, 28, is about to gain custody of all 16 kids he is known to have fathered...
View ArticleA Terrible Loss, Then Something 'Sweet'
A Chinese couple have had their parenthood dream realized, though nearly five years after their deaths. A baby boy was born to a surrogate in December from a fertilized embryo frozen by the couple. It...
View Article3 Cheetahs, 2 Cubs, One 'Big Breakthrough'
Ohio has welcomed two new scientific marvels—the first ever cheetah cubs born via in vitro fertilization. Cheetahs are a vulnerable species, with only 7,500 left in the wild. They also have low genetic...
View ArticleGay Couple Not Allowed to Bring Newborn Twins Home
A gay couple who lives in the African nation of Namibia saw their family expand to five with the birth of newborn twins via surrogate. One big problem: The girls aren't being allowed into the country,...
View ArticleBig News From Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra
In recent weeks, whispers have abounded that Nick Jonas and wife Priyanka Chopra may be headed for splitsville, after Chopra dropped the "Jonas" from her Instagram handle. Doesn't seem like that's the...
View ArticleCouple Who Went to Ukraine for Baby Make Harrowing Escape
Among the estimated 500,000 people to have fled Ukraine are a US couple and their newborn, who very nearly failed to escape as a family after a 39-hour ordeal, per the Orange County Register . Arkansas...
View ArticleWild Twist in the Surrogate Baby Case That's Roiling Spain
A heated debate in Spain triggered by a 68-year-old celebrity who was reported to have used a surrogate mother in Miami to have a baby took a twist Wednesday when the woman announced that the baby is...
View ArticleChrissy Teigen Reveals 4th Baby With Touching Name
Chrissy Teigen posted some surprise news to Instagram on Wednesday: She's now a mother of four. She and husband John Legend welcomed son Wren Alexander Stephens via surrogate. Her multi-slide post...
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