Egg donor agencies, egg donor services, fertility clinics at Donor Network Alliance!

Thank you for your interest in the Donor Network Alliance (“DNA”).  We wanted to provide you with an update of some of the exciting things that are now happening with DNA and how the site is evolving.

DNA’s gestational surrogacy database is now live and hosts over twenty currently available gestational surrogate profiles.  Intended parents will greatly benefit from this service as it will simplify their search for a gestational surrogate with a streamlined process that takes out the confusion and uncertainty.  Search the new database for free for seven days at www.donornetworkalliance.com.

DNA is the largest and most diverse website that posts both egg donor and gestational surrogate profiles for intended parents.  DNA is the only website that aggregates both egg donor and gestational surrogate profiles from the leading egg donor agencies and surrogacy programs throughout the United States.  Currently, DNA has 30 leading member agencies that have uploaded over 6000 egg donor profiles which are compiled into one, easy-to-search platform.  DNA has a vast array of donors to choose from including: 110 Jewish donors, 24 East Indian donors, 568 Hispanic donors, 397 Asian donors, and 317 African American donors.  DNA is recognized as a go to resource for Intended Parents looking to find an egg donor.

The DNA blog now has 99 posts.  The blog is very informative and is a great resource for intended parents.  You can check out the blog now by going to www.donornetworkalliance.com/blog.  DNA is committed to customer service and is available to assist intended patents with any questions or concerns.  You can always contact us by phone at 847-480-0888 or by e-mail at donornetworkalliance@gmail <dot> com.

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NICOLE KIDMAN has described the surrogate who carried her most recent child as “a wonderful woman” but chose not to reveal her identity.

NICOLE KIDMAN, the Australian actress who welcomed a baby daughter in December 2010 via surrogate, has chosen not to reveal the identity of her gestational carrier but described her as a “wonderful woman”. In an interview on Australia’s ’60 Minutes’, 43-year-old Kidman said she and husband KEITH URBAN have been through a “rollercoaster ride with fertility”, adding, “Anyone who’s been in the place of wanting another child or wanting a child knows the disappointment, the pain and the loss that you go through trying. We were in a place of desperately wanting another child. I couldn’t get pregnant”.

Read the article: http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/nicole-kidman-says-surrogate-mother-is-a-wonderful-woman_1203306

The health of a woman’s uterus seems to trump the quality of her eggs when it comes to a baby conceived via fertility treatment being born full-term and at a normal weight.

Previously, research has compared the birth weight babies born via in vitro fertilization (IVF) to that of infants conceived naturally. Babies born as a result of IVF reportedly arrived earlier and weighed less. Researchers figured this was related to the way the babies were conceived.

But recent research in the journal Fertility and Sterility found that women who used donor eggs and their own uterus had smaller babies, while an infertile woman’s embryo implanted in a surrogate resulted in babies with higher birth weights.

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/21/uterus-may-be-more-important-than-egg-quality-for-healthy-babies/#ixzz1FsAxGLea

Read More: http://healthland.time.com/2011/02/21/uterus-may-be-more-important-than-egg-quality-for-healthy-babies/

OLYMPIA — Washington may soon let surrogate mothers get paid for the babies they deliver.

The House approved a bill allowing women to sign contracts with intended parents that will pay them “reasonable compensation” plus medical, legal and other costs associated with the pregnancy.

It passed Monday on a largely partisan 57-41 vote following an impassioned debate in which supporters said it will strengthen families while foes said it will spawn creation of baby-making factories.

“It’s a good thing,” Rep. Mary Helen Roberts, D-Lynnwood, said Tuesday. It will “help families who can’t have children on their own.”

Surrogacy for compensation is allowed with restrictions in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, North Carolina and Texas.
Read the article: http://heraldnet.com/article/20110302/NEWS01/703029742

By Robin von Halle

We normally stay away from politics in this blog. Religion, too, for that matter.

But a very troubling movement has been stepping up the pace lately.  Some legislators at the state and national level are proposing measures that would severely cut away at women’s reproductive rights.

Fertility. Infertility. They are opposite sides of one coin. And these proposals have implications for both of them.

Here’s how blogger Keiko Zoll, a self-described “infertility advocate” put it:

“…Infertility patients need to pay attention to healthcare legislation, particularly anti-abortion legislation. Anti-abortion legislation, in a cruel twist of fate, can pose a serious threat to our access to care. Here we are, trying our damndest to have our own children, and yet (I know how ironic this sounds) we need to be vigilant about others’ rights and access to terminate their own pregnancies.”

In Iowa, proposed legislation would define life as beginning at conception, effectively making abortion illegal there. What would that mean for infertility patients? It would mean that if all the eggs collected were fertilized during an IVF cycle, it would be illegal to dispose of any of them, even those not biologically suited to be transferred to the uterus.

In opposing the legislation, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) pointed out:

“In human reproduction…fewer than 20% of fertilized eggs implant in the uterus. Given the uncertainty…it is unreasonable and imbalanced to give constitutional rights to fertilized eggs or embryos. HF 153 would result in a requirement that all embryos be used for procreation purposes, or be kept in a frozen state forever. We question whether it is the intent…to grant those frozen embryos the right to vote upon reaching 18 years in frozen animation?”

Similar “Personhood” legislation is sweeping across North Dakota, Montana, Texas, and Oklahoma. Then, there’s Georgia, where a bill would require any miscarriage, whether in a hospital or elsewhere, to be reported and investigated. And, of course, there’s the de-funding of Planned Parenthood, a much-needed resource for overall women’s health services going far beyond abortion.

We’re a small business. We don’t have a political action committee. We just want to help people create families, finding and matching them with egg donors and gestational surrogates. But as part of the larger community, we all need to be aware of changes in the environment that might affect both sides of the reproduction coin. And be prepared to give voice to our concerns.