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How to donate breastmilk
Ever wanted to save a life? You can – just by donating a few drops of breastmilk. Why donate? Breastmilk gives babies the best start possible in life but sometimes there are reasons why the mum of a newborn, particularly a premature baby, cannot breastfeed herself. The mum might be physically unable to breastfeed due to…
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Tagged Breast milk, Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding support, Donation, Human-milk bank, milk
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Gay dads win fight
A gay couple who went to America and conceived twins with a surrogate mother and egg donor have won the right for their children to stay in the UK. Barrie Drewitt and Tony Barlow, from Essex, brought their children back from the US but the twins were refused automatic entry to the country. The couple…
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Tagged Barrie Drewitt, Donation, Egg donation, Family, Father, Jack Straw, Money matters, Tony Barlow, Twin
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Donors won’t have to register on birth certificates
Ministers have rejected calls to force parents who have children via egg or sperm donation to register the fact on the birth certificate. An earlier report by a joint committee of MPs and peers had said by not doing it the state was complicit in a lie. But the government did respond to other criticisms…
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Tagged Dawn Primarolo, Donation, Egg donation, Embryo, Fertility, Giving, Queen, Semen, Simon Fishel, Sperm donation
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News: Sperm and egg donation marked on birth certs
Parents who conceive using donated egg or sperm may be forced to disclosethe fact on their child’s birth certification. Under the proposals by a powerful committee of MPs and peers, parents who refuse to add the information when registering a child’s birth could face a fine or a two year prison term. The proposals are…
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Tagged Donation, Egg donation, Fertility, Infertility, Infertility Network UK, Phil Willis MP, Pregnancy, Sheena Young
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End of anonymity for sperm donors
1st April 2005 End of anonymity for sperm donors People donating sperm and eggs will no longer have the right to remain anonymous under a new law which comes into affect today. Children conceived using donors will now be able to identify their genetic parent when they are 18, although the law is not restrospective…
Twins born from frozen eggs
12th October 2005 A mother has given birth to twin girls who are thought to be the first UK twins born from frozen eggs. Isabella and Anna Fahey were born three weeks ago from eggs which had been kept in deep freeze storage at the Midlands Fertility Services (MFS) for two years. About 300 babies have…
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Tagged Cryobiology, Donation, Fertility, Gillian Lockwood, Oocyte cryopreservation, Pregnancy, Sperm donation
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Sperm and egg donors should be paid more
7th October 2005 Sperm and egg donors should be compensated with more money from next year, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Currently donors are paid £15 plus “reasonable expenses”, but a public consultation found many think this is too little and the HFEA says donors should be paid up to £250 to…
Sperm donor babies need to hear truth
Parents of babies conceived by anonymous donor insemination (DI) are being urged to tell their children how they were conceived. Two studies, both published in the Journal of Human Reproduction, have highlighted increasing concern about the long-term emotional effects of fertility treatment using anonymous sperm donation. In Britain, children born by donor insemination do not have a legal right to…
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Tagged Department of Health, Donation, Fertility, Infertility, Sperm bank, Sperm donation
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Pick a perfect baby on the internet
15 August 1999 Faced with two year waiting lists in this country, infertile couples are spending tens of thousands of pounds on egg-donors found in America, where the procedure can be completed in about three months. Although most US donor agencies ask for a registration fee in return for access to their data, some advertise…
