Options for infertile couples

Conception http://www.babycenter.ca/v1049102/inside- pregnancy-fertilization

Artificial insemination, or AI, is a fertilization procedure in which sperm is artificially placed into a woman’s cervix (intracervical insemination) or uterus (intrauterine insemination).

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is the joining of a woman’s egg and a man’s sperm in a laboratory dish. In vitro means “outside the body.” Fertilization means the sperm has attached to and entered the egg.

Surrogate motherhood involves the services of a woman who agrees to carry/gestate a child for the express purpose of surrendering that child to the intending/commissioning couple upon the birth of the child.

Ovum transfer is a procedure that takes a healthy, fertilized egg cell and transplants it into the uterus of another woman.

Ectopic means "in the wrong place", and is a pregnancy that develops outside of your uterus (womb). http://www.babycenter.ca/a549381/ectopic- pregnancy#ixzz2tIC3i8uF

The egg normally spends about five days traveling down the tube from the ovary to your uterus, where it implants and begins to develop. If you have an ectopic pregnancy, this doesn't happen, and your pregnancy starts to develop in the tube. This may happen due to damage to your fallopian tube, which causes your tube to be too narrow for the egg to reach its destination. http://www.babycenter.ca/a549381/ectopic- pregnancy#ixzz2tIBxwsLC

What is not allowed: Cloning people. Cloning stem cells. Growing human embryos for research. Sex selection. Making changes to human DNA that would pass from one generation to the next. Creating people who have animal DNA. Buying or selling embryos, sperm, eggs or other human reproductive materia

What is allowed: Surrogate mothers. Donating sperm, eggs and other reproductive material. Using embryos, sperm, eggs, etc. to assist contraception. Using human embryos and stem cells in research.

Adoption

Public Domestic Adoption in Canada Public domestic adoption refers to any adoption arranged by a public or government agency such as the Children's Aid Society.

Adopting through a public agency is much more tightly controlled than going through a private agency. As a prospective adoptive parent, you have fewer choices. The focus of public agencies is on the safety and welfare of the child. As a result, the priority is in finding the right set of parents for a child rather than the right child for a set of parents.

The Costs There are usually no costs involved in adopting through a public agency

The Costs The fees for a private domestic adoption vary considerably and can run anywhere from about $10,000-20,000. The variation depends on how quickly or easily you can find a child, what method you use to do this, and where the child lives.

The Process The key difference is that in private adoption the wait for a healthy newborn is much shorter and prospective adoptive couples (and birth mothers) have much more control over the process than with public adoption

Surrogate’s mother nightmare Article Write your opinion

Article – Surrogate mom and 60 year old gives birth Write your opinion of the situations

The Murky World of reproductive medicine http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2011/ 04/20/f-twins-ivf.html

Twins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbxADfjig sU

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new- brunswick/adoption-fight-changes- 1.3938568