Congratulations to Kevin and Britney Spears, Brad and Jennifer Gardner or Bennifer on their new babies. They conceived naturally.
Fertility clinics search for willing donors on university campuses all over the country. More and more university students are willing to participate or help a family who is having fertility problems conceive. The most sought after egg donors are Jewish, Indian and blonde female students. The compensation feels may vary according to factors that the parents want. The egg donor organizations that are making all the arrangements can make sure to recruit students at NYU, Harvard, Duke, MIT, Princeton and other elite universities. Students need cash. And the pay is good. According to reports published by the Today show, the prices can go up to $15,000. Keep in mind that there is a black market for egg donors. The federal government prohibits people from trading these types of commodities. So the students only get rewarded for their pain and suffering. In other words, they get compensated for their inconvenience.
What If You Could Do It on Your Own: Ways to Make a Baby
After a long courtship, it was time for the ceremony. It was also time to have the first home and find the dream job. The merging of two separate lives has already started. The time to have a baby is already set. Grandparents are anxious. They are even bugging you. They are asking why it takes so long for you to get pregnant. They forget that you have goals you want to achieve. Getting pregnant is something you plan. It will come after four years. You want to make sure that you truly have so much in common. There are professional and economic goals to reach before settling down in a pregnancy. But the in-laws may frown upon all these goals. They want a grandchild they can play with before old age and disease cripple them. So after four years of living a married life or after working hard on a career, it is time for you to get pregnant. You are trying hard to make it happen. Nowhere will you find some of the ways that couples try to get pregnant. If one does not work for you, try other methods, you will be sure to hit the fertility gold rush if you try either of these ways.
1. Natural sex
2. Artificial insemination -- of mother with father's sperm
3. Artificial insemination -- of mother with donor sperm
4. Artificial insemination -- with egg and sperm donors, using surrogate mother
5. In vitro fertilization (IVF) -- using egg and sperm of parents
6. IVF -- with Intra-Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
7. IVF -- with frozen embryos
8. IVF -- with Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)
9. IVF -- with egg donor
10. IVF -- with sperm donor
11. IVF -- with egg and sperm donor
12. IVF -- with surrogate using parents' egg and sperm
13. IVF -- with surrogate and egg donor
14. IVF -- with surrogate and sperm donor
15. IVF -- with surrogate using her egg, sperm from baby's father
16. IVF -- with surrogate using egg and sperm donors*
17. Cytoplasmic transfer**
18. Nuclear transfer and cloning
In this case, the newborn essentially has five parents: the birth parents who provided the egg and sperm, the surrogate mother who carried the baby, and the parents who will raise the baby.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recently asked the specialists that perform this experimental procedure to submit it for FDA approval, so it is currently not available.
17 on Jamie Grifo's list.
Now, since we had decided to use "18 Ways" in the title, I wanted to make absolutely sure this was an accepted list. Could PGD be considered a way to make a baby or merely a test performed before choosing a way? Should nuclear transfer and cloning be on the list? After all, they had produced animal babies but as yet no human babies. Another call to Dr. Grifo revealed that he stood by his list.
To be safe, I emailed the list to other specialists, and they came up with yet more ways to make a baby. Dr. Douglas Powers, scientific and laboratory director at Boston IVF, a fertility and IVF center, said that if you paired ICSI with numbers 12 through 16 on Grifo's list, you'd have five more ways. That brought us to 23.
Dr. Jacques Cohen, scientific director of the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, fired back an email in which he said "There are many more ways of making babies than 18. Can I add some more?" He listed several techniques that add to those mentioned by Grifo and Powers, and here they are, edited for clarity and numbered appropriately:
24. Assisted hatching: IVF or ICSI and opening the zona pellucida (embryo shell) to help the embryo hatch and increase its chances of successful implantation into the lining of the uterus.
Fragment Removal #25 on Jacques Cohen's list.
25. Fragment removal: In addition to the procedure described in #24, removing from around the embryo's cells adverse fragments of cell debris, which are thought to possibly impair the development of the embryo.
26. Co-culture: Culturing the embryos on cells from the woman's reproductive tract (fallopian tubes and uterus). Helps reduce cytoplasmic fragments (see #25) and improve embryo quality.
27. Testicular Sperm Aspiration (TESA): Obtaining sperm for fertilization from men who previously were thought to have no sperm (azoospermic men) by extracting the cells from the testicle.
28. Single sperm freezing: By freezing one sperm cell in an empty shell of an animal egg so it can be retrieved after thaw. This is done for TESA (see #27) when there are only a few detectable spermatozoa, and the TESA was exploratory, so the egg collection can be dealt with later.
29. After maturing unripe eggs in vitro.
30. After freezing the unfertilized eggs.
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