Thursday, January 7, 2010

Is Your New Year's Resolution to Overcome Infertility?


Children - they're everywhere, especially during the holidays. A chubby baby surrounded by a circle of admirers is a key visual icon of the season. For couples and individuals who long to conceive but cannot, such constant cues during the holidays can serve as painful reminders of their thwarted desire for a child. With recent advancements, most infertility cases -- 85 to 90 percent -- are treated with conventional medical therapies or surgery, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. However, for those for whom fertility treatments are not an option, gestational surrogacy - an arrangement whereby a woman agrees to become pregnant for the purpose of giving birth to a child for others (intended parents) to raise - is a bold route. Each year in the U.S., an estimated 750 babies are born through gestational surrogacy, a Dec. 12 article in the New York Times stated. For those determined to have children of their own, 2010 could be the year that their resolution becomes reality through the aid of a reputable surrogacy agency.

See the following link for the complete story;

http://www.topix.net/content/prweb/2009/12/is-your-new-years-resolution-to-overcome-infertility-and

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