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bellaramsey123 · 5 months ago
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Surrogacy for Single Men in the USA: What You Need to Know
Surrogacy for single men in the USA is a viable path to fatherhood, offering a chance to build a family. The process involves selecting an egg donor and a surrogate to carry the pregnancy. Legal aspects vary by state, so consulting with a reproductive attorney is essential.
Surrogacy agencies provide support in matching with surrogates and navigating the medical and legal processes. Single men should also consider the emotional and financial aspects, as surrogacy can be costly.
With proper planning and professional guidance, single men can successfully embark on this fulfilling journey to parenthood. For more information call us (212) 661-7673 or visit our website.
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armisdeleon · 7 months ago
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CHARACTER INTRO:
NAME: Armi Stella de Leon
AGE: 32
GENDER/PRONOUNS: Female. She/her.
SEXUALITY/STATUS: Pansexual | Taken.
OCCUPATION: Body Piercer
BIRTHDAY: October 31st, 1991
HOMETOWN: Wilmington, North Carolina
NEIGHBORHOOD: Midtown
FACECLAIM: Melissa Barrera
PINTEREST | BIOGRAPHY
BACKGROUND:
TW: N/A
Born through surrogacy. The de Leons' consist of two fathers named Daniel and Tony, a older brother by the name of Amos, and the youngest girl, Armi.
Growing up, Armi was considered one of the boys, honestly. She enjoyed getting down and dirty. She got her hands dirty, and she played sports throughout her school years. She was genuinely known as the cool girl to be around.
She'd decide to go off to college in New York, at 19, thinking that that was what she was supposed to do.
While there, and dealing with trying to figure herself out, she'd end up meeting a man by the name of Sean Richards. Sean Richards was handsome, and through and through a privileged kid. From a rich family, on the upper East side of New York City. Armi would find herself swept away into some Cinderella love story.
Only that was not to be seen. The relationship was great, at first, but slowly and surely, Sean would turn Armi into the perfect Barbie doll. Imagine was everything to the Richards family.
For five years, she'd be exactly the kind of woman a rich family of doctors would want. A trophy on her boyfriend's arm.
She'd go to college for nursing, and would receive her degree, but the second she was out, Sean demanded she be a housewife. The degree was simply just for show.
They'd be engaged that year, and it wouldn't be until the day of the wedding when Armi finally said enough was enough. Calling off the wedding, and pissing off a well connected family. She'd return to Wilmington with her fathers and brother.
At 26, and freshly single, Armi would start to rebel. She got her first tattoo, her first piercing, she cut her hair, and even dyed it. The proper Armi de Leon that had been made out of clay was no longer, and in its place was a stronger woman.
One who refused to allow a man tell her what to do. She'd find herself interested in art, crafting herself in make-up, body paint, and SFX work. She'd also find that she enjoyed body piercings, which is what she'd decided for as a career.
Armi would remain in Wilmington, and own every part of her. She's a wild child at heart, but mad loyal.
SOME HEADCANONS:
Has her tongue, nipples, nose, ears, and belly button pierced.
Has a pretty solid amount of tattoos.
Enjoys to dance, and is extremely flexible.
Love animals. Quickest way to win her heart, next to food.
Super good with kids, this surprises most people.
Super close to her fathers, and brother. Say something bad about them in front of her, and expect to be punched in the face.
Is a spicy Latina. Also loves spicy foods.
WANTED CONNECTIONS:
FRIENDS: She is super sociable, and fun to be around.
ENEMIES/I DON’T REALLY LIKE YOU: Not everyone likes everyone.
COWORKERS: Tattoo artists, other piercers, she has danced at the club, and bar tends from time to time.
CLIENTS: Anyone who’s needed make-up down for something, or even just Halloween-y stuff. Has piercings.
TRULY ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, FOR REAL. I JUST WANNA LOVE ON Y’ALL AND BE LOVED. OK THANK YOU
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man-reading · 3 years ago
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Sublet (2020)
Drama LGBTQ 1h 29m
Directed by Eytan Fox
A New York Times travel writer comes to Tel Aviv after suffering a tragedy. The energy of the city and his relationship with a younger man brings him back to life. Sublet featuring John Benjamin Hickey and Niv Nissim
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SUBLET BELONGS to a small genre of movies that chart a love affair whose arc rises and falls within a narrow window of time from first meeting to final farewell. It all happens in a period of days rather than months or years—or even in a single day, as in the 1995 film Before Sunrise and its two sequels directed by Richard Linklater. In the case of Sublet, the action takes place over a period of five days which are conveniently numbered, dividing the film into five acts.
       Day One finds a somber, middle-aged American man arriving in Tel Aviv and discovering that his Airbnb is still occupied by its primary tenant, a young indie filmmaker who was up all night filming and lost track of the days. It has the makings of a contentious situation, but the American visitor, Michael—a New York Timestravel writer who’s in Tel Aviv on assignment—is too polite to make a fuss and offers to find a hotel. Or perhaps he’s already captivated by his Israeli host, Tomer, who’s nothing if not easy on the eyes, not to mention charming and twenty-something hip. In addition to making films, Tomer sublets his flat to earn money while couch-surfing with friends. While he’s packing up to vacate the premises, Michael can’t resist asking him a few questions about where to find “the real Tel Aviv,” and before you know it he’s agreeing to show Michael around the city as the latter is offering to let him sleep on the couch.
       Thus their association begins as a business arrangement and retains a transactional element throughout, which serves as a kind of official cover for the feelings and stirrings that are brewing under the surface. At any rate, it provides a reason for them to spend nearly every waking hour together over the next several days, or so it seems, as we start each day with breakfast on the lanai or at a café and end it at a nighttime venue where alcohol is typically consumed. Much of the time in between is spent with the two men as they get to know each other, but we also meet Tomer’s friend, a star actress, and her boyfriend, whose tempestuous relationship could be on the rocks. And we meet his highly cultured mother, who still lives on the kibbutz where Tomer grew up. We encounter Michael’s husband David by Skype and learn that the couple is having problems related to a surrogacy attempt, which helps to explain Michael’s generally melancholy demeanor.
Closing the gap between two seemingly incompatible individuals is the stuff of romantic comedy, of course. The major “problem” in this pairing is the men’s age difference (thirty years?), which some people could overlook, but Tomer has made it clear that he’s attracted to hot young guys, and he’s in it for the sex. What’s more, he has a hard time understanding the impulse to pair off and settle down, which could make sense for straight couples, but why give up sexual adventurism if you’re gay? It’s a theme that has found its way into a number of recent movies and plays, most recently the Broadway epic
The Inheritance
: the generation gap between gay men who lived through the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s and those in the “post-AIDS generation” who haven’t experienced the downside of sexual freedom.
       Given this disparity in both age and outlook, the challenge for director Eytan Fox is to conjure the attractive force that can bring these guys together, and in just a few days. Okay, Michael’s attraction to Tomer isn’t hard to explain, at least on a physical level, though he clearly has qualms about following that route. (At one point Tomer calls up a hottie on Grindr and invites Michael to join them in a three-way.) It is Tomer’s change of heart that needs to be explained, for he really falls for Michael and loses it when they have to bid farewell. What pierced the veil of Tomer’s cynical demeanor is not entirely clear, but something in Michael’s recent past—no doubt the source of his melancholy—contains a human experience that seems to jibe with Tomer’s own life history in an unexpected way, like the proverbial key to his heart.
       Sublet doesn’t break any new ground as cinema, but it succeeds on its own terms. The two actors (John Benjamin Hickey and Niv Nissim) are completely natural in their roles, even if their chemistry as lovers isn’t totally obvious. Director Eytan Fox also made a 2004 film titled Yossi & Jagger(reviewed here in May-June 2004), which focused on a love affair between two male soldiers conducted inside the cramped confines of an Israeli bunker over the course of a single day and night. In both films the dialog is surprisingly spare, and none of the four men spends an inordinate amount of time analyzing his feelings or justifying his life choices. Nor are these cases of “love at first sight,” as each relationship takes at least a few hours to develop. What Fox wants to explore is the possibility that two people can come together and discover some essential humanity in the other that’s beyond words or even sexual intimacy. Some might call it love.
(from: glreview.org)
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tabloidtoc · 5 years ago
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Globe, April 20
Cover: Kenny Rogers’ body is still on ice -- why his widow won’t bury him 
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Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Sloppy Tyra Banks, Gary Busey grocery shopping in Beverly Hills, Brian Austin Green grabs meals to go 
Page 3: Lisa Marie Presley is living large, puffy-faced Goldie Hawn hikes to her California home, Chris Pratt spring cleaning 
Page 4: Bindi Irwin has another surprise in store after pulling off her secret Australia Zoo wedding to Chandler Powell -- she’s pregnant 
Page 5: A bank has asked the LA Sheriff’s Office to force Tori Spelling to pay a $89,000 credit card debt and her money-bags mom Candy Spelling has once again refused to help, Patrick Stewart secretly married his third wife singer-songwriter Sunny Ozell in a Mexican restaurant in California with Ian McKellen officiating 
Page 6: Catherine Zeta-Jones admits she’s a bitch and being polite to fans pushes her over the edge 
Page 7: Spoiler Alert for Grey’s Anatomy -- Ellen Pompeo who has starred as Dr. Meredith Grey for 15 seasons will be killed off next season in a blockbuster story line
Page 8: Now that he’s moving to California rogue royal Prince Harry plans to turn his years as a stoner into a king’s ransom by launching a huge marijuana business empire -- Harry and wife Meghan Markle are slapping down $9 million for a 286- acre pot farm near Clear Lake in north central California to fuel their flashy new Hollywood lifestyle 
Page 10: Jon Voight tells his daughter Angelina Jolie to back off of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston
Page 11: Law & Order vet Elisabeth Rohm has called off her year-long engagement to California judge Jonathan Colby on good terms but the two have different priorities at this time, the handwritten lyrics to Hey Jude by Paul McCartney are set to sell for nearly $200,000 at a massive online Beatles auction 
Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Conan O’Brien rides a bike through Brentwood, Ellen DeGeneres has been recently blasted as one of the meanest people alive, Amy Poehler is co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade in Hollywood and NYC and the comedy clubs and improv schools laid off most staff without notice or severance or health coverage and only after embarrassing press and online comments trashed the millionaire she finally will provide funds for a one-month extension to healthcare for the full-time benefit eligible staff, Little Big Town singer Kimberly Schlapman says she’s 100% sure her 12-year-old daughter Daisy was a heaven-sent miracle thanks to her deceased first husband Steven Roads, Woody Allen outcreeps himself by spilling in his memoir the details of bedding both sisters of his former muse and live-in girlfriend Diane Keaton, Ramona Singer of RHONYC did away with the housecleaners due to coronavirus and posted a picture of herself mopping in a sexy nightie 
Page 13: Frumpy Kate Hudson, Sean Penn’s silver roots start to show, Maud Adams walks her dog, Kristen Stewart relies on the company of ghosts 
Page 14: Seth Rogen has a new pastime: watching flick flops like Cats while flying high, Demi Lovato’s got something to sing about -- a brand new ripped boyfriend named Max Ehrich who loves showing off his astonishing pecs, Fashion Verdict -- Emily Blunt 5/10, Noomi Rapace 3/10, Christina Aguilera 2/10, Cardi B 4/10 
Page 16: Rihanna vows to have up to four children in ten years with or without a man, Superman never carried an ounce of flab but his alter ego Dean Cain has piled on an unhealthy 50 pounds and is gobbling supersize portions of pizza and fast food to find comfort because of his nose-diving career 
Page 17: Inked-up train wreck Aaron Carter declared himself single in a nude photo after his girlfriend Melanie Martin whose name was just tattooed on his face was collared for felony domestic violence 
Page 19: 10 Things You Don’t Know About Scarlett Johansson, Luann de Lesseps confesses she’s still tippling even after her shameful drunken bust, stuck in lockdown Courteney Cox is binge-watching her sitcom Friends and was shocked to realize she can’t remember most of the series that made her rich and famous 
Page 20: True Crime 
Page 23: Former boxing champ Mike Tyson is dropping shocking confessions including having sex with fans, drug binges, psychedelic trips and being pen pals with England’s most vicious gangster 
Page 24: Cover Story -- a furious family feud is exploding over late country great Kenny Rogers whose body is being kept on ice because his widow Wanda Rogers wants to hold a massive send-off that’s now banned by the coronavirus lockdown 
Page 26: Health Report 
Page 29: Eminem gushes that being able to raise kids is one of his greatest accomplishments, former steroids user and New York Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca is raging over how fellow cheater Alex Rodriguez has revived his image as an A-list celeb and is slamming the retired New York Yankees slugger as one of the fakest people out there, Alicia Keys felt manipulated and objectified by a sleazy photographer who made her open her shirt and yank down the top of her jeans when she was only 19 
Page 30: Former teen sex slave Virginia Roberts Giuffre who claims she was pimped out to Britain’s Prince Andrew by pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is now charging the kinky billionaire and his mistress Ghislaine Maxwell pressured her to carry his child through surrogacy 
Page 31: Steve Carell shockingly quit his hit show The Office at the peak of its popularity because he wasn’t feeling the love from showrunners 
Page 32: Single mom-of-three Kourtney Kardashian is so lonely and desperate for love she’s stopped being set up by Hollywood pals and is casting her fishing net for a man online, a London collector of James Bond guns was robbed of five pistols used in 007 flicks worth a staggering $125,000, a sweaty towel that late NBA star Kobe Bryant tossed over his shoulders as he bid goodbye to basketball has shockingly sold for more than $33,000 
Page 38: Real Life 
Page 40: Daniel Craig is worth about $180 million thanks to playing James Bond but he’s got bad news for his kids -- he’s cutting them off without a cent because he finds inheritance distasteful -- he has a 28-year-old daughter from his first marriage to Fiona Loudon and a two-year-old daughter with current wife Rachel Weisz, busted in the college admissions cheating scandal Lori Loughlin and husband Mossimo Giannulli are accusing the prosecution of strong-arming its key witness to lie that they knew their payments were bribes and not donations to the university 
Page 44: Straight Talk -- newly leaked video is yet more proof that desperate loser Kanye West is a filthy parasite who’s been trying to save his fizzling career by leeching onto superstar songbird Taylor Swift 
Page 45: George Clooney is in hot water now that Nespresso the coffee giant he shills for on TV has admitted buying beans from farms that pay kids pennies for laboring in the fields, dumpy Drew Barrymore is hitting rock bottom again with her weight and is tired of blubbering in her closet over clothes that don’t fit and has vowed to give the extra weight the heave-ho before her new daytime talk show gets going 
Page 47: Hollywood Flashback -- Psycho, Bizarre But True 
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toongrrl-blog · 5 years ago
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The Mommy Myth: Threats from Within (Part One)
Okay time to see the Moms “gone bad” and other Moms who required a lot of empathy but only got vilified on the media or were given anxiety inducing media. 
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This was the era of the tabloid show like A Current Affair and America’s Most Wanted, “the crack baby epidemic”, depraved maternal figures, teen moms, smothering mothers, Lifetime movies where shit goes wrong, surrogacy, and the news that no you cannot let your kids go walking to the park by themselves. The era of sensationalism made no care for maternal ambivalence nor for the nuances of individual mother’s lives, only for black and white. Heroes or villains. No grey area. 
The “deviant mothers” featured were vilified for being supposedly narcissist and self-indulgent, odd given that I previously covered celebrity moms. But the celeb mom is portrayed as self-indulgent and narcissist on behalf of her kids and everyone who looks at her. Throwing money on diets, spa treatments, workouts, beauty treatments, and clothes were “necessary” as it was so someone had something pretty to look at. But have needs or desires that had nothing to do with your family, you were so bad! 
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Scene: Suburban New Jersey, 1985. Dr. Elizabeth and Mr. William Stern wanted a baby but Dr. Elizabeth Stern was in her late thirties and had multiple sclerosis and they went to the New York Infertility Institute and were approved for surrogacy and hooked up with Mary Beth Whitehead, a homemaker and high school dropout with two children and a husband who was a sanitation worker. As she said:
I don’t have an education. I don’t have a skill. The only skill I know I do well is being a mother.
A contract was signed where Mary Beth would be paid $10,000 upon the Sterns receiving the baby, where she’d be impregnated with William Stern’s sperm and the Sterns would pay her medical expenses and a $7,500 finders fee to the Institute. On March 27, 1986 Mary Beth gave birth to a baby she named Sara and she had a change of heart and decided to keep the baby. The Sterns wanted the baby and the judge awarded temporary custody to the Sterns, who named the baby Melissa. When William came to pick up Baby M, the Whiteheads bailed for Florida with the baby, leaving their two older kids with the grandparents there and lived on the run (BTW this is a perfect scenario for a movie, I think Raising Arizona was loosely inspired by this).
Mary Beth’s actions flew in the face of what “surrogate moms were supposed to do”, they were supposed to be like Elizabeth Kane in 1980 and kiss the baby goodbye to a more affluent life (Kane eventually testified on behalf of Mary Beth). Or get pregnant and give the baby away to your infertile sister or be like Glenn Close in The Big Chill where she let her single friend sleep with her husband so she can have a baby of her own. Like Susan J. Douglas and Meredith Michaels, I subscribe to Mo’Nique’s school of thought regarding your friends and your man (maybe the Smug Marrieds should watch this and think twice about flaunting their rings to Bridget Jones):
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People had a lot of shit to say about the Baby M situation, it involved issues like classism and sexism, who deserved the baby? The woman who carried her for nine months but was lower middle class and married to the garbageman or the biochemist who donated the sperm and paid the money? The trial started in the New Jersey Superior Court on January 5, 1987 where Whitehead was hit with several old-fashioned stereotypes about women: they can’t make up their minds and they are hysterical. Gary N. Skoloff, attorney to the Sterns, went Maddy Perez like the Whiteheads were a pot of chili. Skoloff listed 35 reasons why Mary Beth shouldn’t get the kid, amongst them was her mental health and her marriage to the garbageman with a alky problem. Also Mr. Stern recorded a phone conversation with Mary Beth unbeknownst to her. She was frantic: the Sterns had a judge freeze her family’s assets (which included the home, furnishings inside, car, and bank accounts). The media didn’t hear that or report it but they did on the desperate Mary Beth saying “I’m going to do it Bill....I’m going to do it; you’ve pushed me to it...I gave her life. I can take her life away”. The subtext also that being under educated and working class were not factors in making a good parent.
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Honestly if your assets were frozen by someone who had the means and connections, wouldn’t you be unhinged? I think that Mary Beth needed to be treated for postpartum psychological issues rather than reviled as “The Crazy Woman” and don’t we make the worst arguments, imagine if you appeared saying and doing dumb shit like Bridget Jones and it was played on TV? Also on the tapes she was recorded as saying “I’ve been breastfeeding her for four months. Don’t you think she’s bonded to me? Bill, I sleep in the same bed with her. She won’t even sleep by herself...she knows my smell, she knows who I am--don’t I count for anything?” The media didn’t show that. More judgments came as her background opened up: her husband is an alcoholic, she and her husband separated for a while and she was on welfare in the past, her son had school issues (imagine how many affluent parents have kids with that problem), daughter Tuesday had frostbite when the furnace broke down (I’m not hating, winter in the East Coast sounds rough), and they went to the slut-shaming route when they got Mary Beth to admit she worked as a “barroom dancer”. 
And now it got really nasty: she didn’t play patty cake right (!), took pots and pans away from the baby and gave her a stuffed panda (uh I don’t know what kind of pots and pans they were around but I’m Latina), she dyed her prematurely gray hair brown (oh the horrors!)...a word from Karen Wheeler for now:
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All these made her not an ideal mother. Okay am I getting some pissed off women in this post? Unicorn colored haired girls? Bottle blondes? Fake redheads? Anyone covering the grey? Henna heads? Well soon feminists and celebs like Our Queen Meryl Streep, Gloria Steinem, Carly Simon (one of our reigning Ladies of shady breakup songs), Lois Gould, and Betty Friedan all issued a statement of solidarity with Mary Beth Whitehead reading “By these standards, we are all unfit mothers”.  Thank Jesus for this action of solidarity because the media was playing one of it’s favorite games: pit women against each other. Dr. Elizabeth and Mary Beth were represented as doctor vs. housewife, barren vs. fertile, educated vs. under educated; so far the media was on Dr. Elizabeth’s and her husband’s side, which was okay for her but while the media cut her slack for being a quiet ride-along who was professional and educated and “of the right class” she got away with things that the media wouldn’t be kind with. While the media covered Mary Beth’s deteriorating mental health, they didn’t cover her testimony which read like a list of things that would normally get moms judged:
She wasn’t going to cut back on her work because “I didn’t realize how much time is required to raise a child.”
She claimed she was the “psychological mother” and therefore the true mom.
Her husband’s testimony said they’d have the kid in full-time day care (probably a nice day care like the academy in Daddy Day Care).
Activities with Baby M were trips to Bloomingdales.
During a cross-examination, Dr. Stern said she wouldn’t want to see the baby if Mary Beth was awarded custody
So what of Mr. Stern? He was basically cosplaying Ted Wheeler.
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And he said “Fathers have feeling, too” which made him appear like the victim to the public when he had the means and access to a lawyer who went savage on Mary Beth. On April 1st (haven’t you heard, irony is dead), Judge Harvey Sorkow awarded custody to the Stern family on grounds that they provide better care than Mary Beth could (or afford). Mary Beth Whitehead was denied visitation rights by the judge, enabled the Sterns to adopt Baby M who was officially named Melissa Stern. Later that month it got bittersweet for Mary Beth: she regained brief visitation rights but got divorced and she remarried and had two more children, which the Sterns’ lawyer said was proof of “her personality problems” (wow imagine if the Duggars were tarred with that brush) while she tried to fight for longer visits. The next year saw Sorkow’s ruling thrown out by the appeals court on grounds of condoning baby selling, the adoption invalidated, and Mary Beth’s standing as mother restored. She got visitation rights, years later Mary Beth and older daughter Tuesday went on Dr. Phil where they talked about the case. Tuesday said the case contributed to the divorce and the strain was too much for the late Mr. Whitehead, who died from cancer years before their appearance. Mary Beth said she wouldn’t recommend this and if she had the chance, she’d never do it again, being a surrogate mother. At that time, Melissa was 16 and according to Mary Beth their relationship wasn’t good and she did attend Tuesday’s wedding though but claimed the Sterns made it difficult for the two half-sisters to have a relationship. Then five years later, Melissa was a junior at George Washington University as a sorority member and religion major and found it strange when the case was brought up in her Bioethics class, she hoped to become a minister and a mother and at 18 she allowed the Sterns to fully adopt her, terminating Mary Beth’s rights. 
And those fixing their lips to say that the Sterns had more rights because they could afford a “good life” for her? I leave this for you to watch.
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So the media savaged Mary Beth Whitehead, a working-class white mother who gave birth to a healthy and chubby baby, how did the media treat poor, drug-addicted black mothers and their “crack babies”? (TL;DR, it was bad, very bad, you know it’s bad bad really really bad!). 
Up next...and for all you moms dealing with the judgements from an unhelpful world, here are words from Lois Foutley
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Best IVF &  Gynecologist In India | Best IVF Center in Delhi | OVO Health
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In vitro treatment (IVF) is a procedure of preparation where an egg is combined with sperm outside the body, in vitro ("in glass"). The procedure involves monitoring and stimulating a lady's ovulatory procedure, removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from the lady's ovaries and letting sperm treat them in a fluid in a research center. After the prepared egg (zygote) experiences incipient organism culture for 2–6 days, it is embedded in the equivalent or another lady's uterus, with the intention of establishing an effective pregnancy.IVF is a kind of helped conceptive innovation utilized for infertility treatment and gestational surrogacy. A prepared egg might be embedded into a surrogate's uterus, and the resulting kid is hereditarily random to the surrogate. A few nations have restricted or generally control the accessibility of IVF treatment, giving ascent to richness the travel industry. Limitations on the accessibility of IVF include expenses and age, in request for a lady to convey a sound pregnancy to term. IVF is commonly not utilized until less invasive or costly choices have fizzled or been determined far-fetched to work.In 1978 Louise Brown was the principal kid effectively brought into the world after her mom got IVF treatment. Darker was conceived because of normal cycle IVF, where no incitement was made. The methodology occurred at Dr Kershaw's Cottage Hospital (presently Dr Kershaw's Hospice) in Royton, Oldham, England. Robert G. Edwards was granted the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2010. The physiologist co-built up the treatment together with Patrick Steptoe and embryologist Jean Purdy yet the last two were not qualified for thought as they had kicked the bucket and the Nobel Prize isn't granted after death. 
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Surrogacy is a course of action, frequently upheld by a lawful understanding, whereby a lady (the surrogate mother) consents to tolerate a youngster for someone else or people, who will end up being the kid's parent(s) after birth.People may look for a surrogacy plan when pregnancy is restoratively outlandish, when pregnancy dangers are unreasonably risky for the intended mother, or when a single man or a male couple wish to have a kid. Surrogacy is viewed as one of many helped conceptive technologies.In surrogacy courses of action, money related pay might possibly be involved. Receiving cash for the course of action is known as business surrogacy. The lawfulness and cost of surrogacy fluctuates broadly between locales, once in a while resulting in dangerous international or interstate surrogacy courses of action. Couples seeking a surrogacy game plan in a nation where it is restricted once in a while travel to a ward that grants it. In certain nations, surrogacy is just lawful if cash doesn't trade hands. (See surrogacy laws by nation and ripeness tourism.)Where business surrogacy is lawful, couples may utilize the assistance of an outsider office to aid the procedure of surrogacy by finding a surrogate and arranging a surrogacy contract with her. These offices frequently screen surrogates' mental and other therapeutic tests to guarantee the best possibility of solid incubation and conveyance. They additionally as a rule encourage every single lawful issue concerning the intended guardians and the surrogate. 
Best IVF Specialist in Gurgaon 
The initial phase in IVF is taking ripeness prescriptions for a while to enable your ovaries to deliver a few eggs that are experienced and prepared for treatment. This is called ovulation induction. You may get customary ultrasounds or blood tests to gauge your hormone levels and monitor your egg production.Once your ovaries have delivered enough full grown eggs, your primary care physician expels the eggs from your body (this is called egg recovery). Egg recovery is a minor surgery that is done at your primary care physician's office or at a ripeness clinic.You'll get medicine to assist you with being loose and open to during the technique. Using a ultrasound to see inside your body, the specialist puts a thin, empty cylinder through your vagina and into the ovary and follicles that hold your eggs. The needle is associated with a suction gadget that tenderly hauls the eggs out of each follicle.In a lab, your eggs are blended in with sperm cells from your accomplice or a benefactor — this is called insemination. The eggs and sperm are put away together in an exceptional container, and preparation occurs. For sperm that have lower motility (don't swim too), they might be injected straightforwardly into the eggs to advance treatment. As the phones in the treated eggs separate and become undeveloped organisms, individuals who work at the lab screen the progress.About 3-5 days after the egg recovery, at least 1 incipient organisms are placed into your uterus (this is called incipient organism move). The specialist slides a thin cylinder through your cervix into your uterus, and inserts the incipient organism straightforwardly into your uterus through the cylinder. 
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The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus, dated to around 1800 BC, manages ladies' wellbeing — gynecological ailments, fruitfulness, pregnancy, contraception, and so on. The content is partitioned into thirty-four segments, each area dealing with a particular issue and containing finding and treatment; no anticipation is recommended. Medications are non careful, comprising applying medicines to the influenced body part or swallowing them. The belly is on occasion observed as the wellspring of complaints manifesting themselves in other body parts.The Hippocratic Corpus contains a few gynecological treatises dating to the fifth/fourth hundreds of years BC. Aristotle is another solid hotspot for restorative writings from the fourth century BC with his portrayals of science principally found in History of Animals, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals. The gynecological treatise Gynaikeia by Soranus of Ephesus (first/second century AD) is surviving (together with a sixth century Latin reword by Muscio, a doctor of a similar school). He was the main agent of the school of doctors known as the "Methodists".J. Marion Sims is generally viewed as the dad of current gynecology. Presently reprimanded for his practices, Sims built up a portion of his methods by operating on slaves, a considerable lot of whom were not given anaesthesia.[4][5] Sims performed medical procedures on 12 subjugated ladies in his hand crafted lawn hospital for a long time. While performing these medical procedures he invited men doctors and understudies to watch invasive and painful techniques while the ladies were uncovered. On one of the ladies, named Anarcha, he performed 30 medical procedures without anesthesia.[6] Due to having such a large number of oppressed ladies, he would turn starting with one then onto the next, continuously trying to consummate the fix of their fistulas. Doctors and understudies lost interest in assisting Sims through the span of his patio practice, and he enlisted other subjugated ladies, who were healing from their own medical procedures, to help him. In 1855 Sims went on to establish the Woman's Hospital in New York, the principal hospital explicitly for female issue. 
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In certain nations, ladies should initially observe a general professional (GP; otherwise called a family expert (FP)) before seeing a gynecologist. On the off chance that their condition requires training, information, surgery, or gear inaccessible to the GP, the patient is then alluded to a gynecologist. In the United States, be that as it may, law and numerous medical coverage plans enable gynecologists to give essential consideration notwithstanding parts of their own claim to fame. With this choice accessible, a few ladies select to see a gynecological specialist for non-gynecological issues without another doctor's referral.As in the entirety of medicine, the main instruments of conclusion are clinical history and examination. Gynecological examination is very intimate, more so than a routine physical test. It likewise requires one of a kind instrumentation, for example, the speculum. The speculum comprises of two hinged edges of inward metal or plastic which are utilized to withdraw the tissues of the vagina and grant examination of the cervix, the lower some portion of the uterus situated within the upper segment of the vagina. Gynecologists regularly do a bimanual examination (one hand on the stomach area and a couple of fingers in the vagina) to palpate the cervix, uterus, ovaries and hard pelvis. It isn't phenomenal to do a rectovaginal examination for complete assessment of the pelvis, especially if any suspicious masses are valued. Male gynecologists may have a female chaperone for their examination. An abdominal or vaginal ultrasound can be utilized to affirm any irregularities acknowledged with the bimanual examination or when indicated by the patient's history. 
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Going to see a gynecologist — a specialist who centers around ladies' conceptive wellbeing — implies you're taking obligation regarding your body in new manners. It very well may be extremely exciting to realize you're making certain all is going admirably with adolescence, your regenerative framework, and more.Keep in mind that different specialists likewise can help with gynecological issues. For instance, a juvenile medicine specialist, family specialist, or pediatrician can respond to questions and might have the option to examine your vagina, too.A gynecologist is a restorative specialist that represents considerable authority in ladies' conceptive frameworks. Separate specialists that represent considerable authority in treating ladies have existed for quite a long time, and these old specialists are the progenitors of the present gynecological specialists and analysts. Gynecologists are frequently at the cutting edge of discussions over ladies' wellbeing and medicinal services. While a general doctor might have the option to pinpoint and treat minor ladies' medical problems, the master opinions of gynecologists are totally important with regards to certain parts of ladies' wellbeing.
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Gynecologists
Gynecology or gynecology (see spelling contrasts) is the restorative work on dealing with the wellbeing of the female regenerative frameworks (vagina, uterus, and ovaries) and the bosoms. Outside medicine, the term signifies "the investigation of ladies". Its partner is andrology, which manages medicinal issues particular to the male conceptive framework.
All cutting edge gynecologists are likewise obstetricians (see obstetrics and gynecology). In numerous territories, the specialities of gynecology and obstetrics overlap.The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus, dated to around 1800 BC, manages ladies' wellbeing — gynecological maladies, fertility, pregnancy, contraception, and so forth. The content is separated into thirty-four areas, each segment dealing with a particular issue and containing conclusion and treatment; no anticipation is proposed. Medications are non careful, comprising applying medicines to the influenced body part or swallowing them. The womb is now and again observed as the wellspring of complaints manifesting themselves in other body parts.
The Hippocratic Corpus contains a few gynecological treatises dating to the fifth/fourth hundreds of years BC. Aristotle is another solid hotspot for restorative writings from the fourth century BC with his portrayals of science essentially found in History of Animals, Parts of Animals, Generation of Animals. The gynecological treatise Gynaikeia by Soranus of Ephesus (first/second century AD) is surviving (together with a sixth century Latin reword by Muscio, a doctor of a similar school). He was the central agent of the school of doctors known as the "Methodists".
J. Marion Sims is broadly viewed as the dad of current gynaecology.[3] Now reprimanded for the short comings.[clarification needed][4] He built up a portion of his methods by operating on slaves, a large number of whom were not given anaesthesia.[5] Sims performed medical procedures on 12 oppressed ladies in his hand crafted patio hospital for a long time. While performing the medical procedures he invited men doctors and understudies to come watch the invasive and painful medical procedures while the ladies were uncovered. On one of the ladies, named Anarcha, he performed 13 medical procedures and without anesthesia. Due to having such a significant number of oppressed ladies he would pivot starting with one then onto the next continuous trying to idealize the repairment of fistulas. In the four years he played out these medical procedures the doctors and understudies lost interest in assisting him.
Because of this he got the other oppressed ladies, who were healing from their medical procedures, to help him in the tasks, which expected them to help in the execution of these painful medical procedures on the other ladies. In 1855 Sims went ahead to establish the Woman's Hospital in New York, this was the principal hospital particularly for female issue.
Dr Pinky Ronak Shah
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She finished her FNB, partnership in conceptive medicine from Lilavati Hospital, Mumbai, where she got trained in nuts and bolts of ART, and aced abilities in different IVF methods and endoscopy. She has worked at Lilavati hospital and Hiranandani Hospital.
She has extraordinary interest in administration of infertile patients with PCOS, Recurrent implantation disappointment and intermittent pregnancy misfortunes.
She has composed numerous sections, introduced different papers, notices, has been invited staff in national gatherings. She is individual from key dynamic associations like MOGS, FOGSI, ISAR, IAGE, IMA, AMC and PCOS society. Dr. Pinky Shah is center fertility expert at Morpheus IVF – Mahim CenterDr. Pinky Ronak Shah in Mumbai treats the different illnesses of the patients by helping them experience top notch medicines and strategies. Among the various administrations offered here, the clinic gives medications to Uterine Fibroids or Myomas, Ovarian Cysts, Endometriosis, Pelvic Organ Prolapse, Urinary Problems, Vaginal Discharge, Subfertility, Menopause, Gynecological Cancers, Abnormal Pap Smears - Pre-Invasive Cervical/Vaginal Disease and Vulva Conditions. The doctor is likewise recorded under Gynecologist and Obstetrician Doctors. Moreover, the patients likewise visit the clinic for Contraception Advice, HPV Tests, and Biopsy Tests and so on.
Bloom IVF Center, Lilavati Hospital and Research Center
Bloom IVF Center, Lilavati Hospital and Research Center is an IVF Clinic in Bandra West, Mumbai. The clinic is visited by doctors like Dr. Hrishikesh Pai and Dr. Nandita P Palshetkar . The timings of Bloom IVF Center, Lilavati Hospital and Research Center are: Mon-Sat: 10:00-19:00. A portion of the administrations given by the Clinic are: Oocyte Freezing,ERA,Ovarian Tissue Bank,Caesarean Section (C Section) and Artificial Insemination and so on.
Tap on guide to find bearings to achieve Bloom IVF Center, Lilavati Hospital and Research Centre.These offer the whole scope of administrations for infertile couples including Conselling, examination, investigations, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic medical procedure, ultrasound monitoring, IUI, IVF, ICSI, IMSI. Egg Donation, Embryo Donation, Surrogacy. These Five units areThese offer the constrained scope of administrations for infertile couples including Conselling, examination, investigations, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic medical procedure, ultrasound monitoring and IUI. Every single other administration, for example, IVF, ICSI, IMSI. Egg Donation, Embryo Donation, Surrogacy are done at the Fully prepared IVF focus found adjacent. Anyway the ultrasound monitoring of the IVF cycles is done at the fertility focus, thusIf you're looking for an IVF clinic to address your issues, Bloom Fertility Center is satisfied to have areas in thickly populated zones all through the country, and we anticipate serving you. In case you're looking for the kind of cutting-edge IVP treatment India merited, pick us to enable you to fabricate the group of your dreams.
Regardless of where you are, there's most likely a Bloom IVF clinic India potential guardians like you can rely upon for the administrations you require. Try not to hold up any more. Our IVF clinic can escape helping you manufacture the family you want. Our rate is moderate, our staff is proficient and we anticipate the chance to serve you.One of the leading gynecologists of the city, Bloom IVF focus in Bandra West has set up the clinic in 1995 and has gained a devoted demographic in the course of recent years and is additionally much of the time visited by a few big names, aspiring models and other decent customers and international patients also. They additionally plan on expanding their business further and providing administrations to a few more patients owing to its prosperity in the course of recent years. The proficiency, devotion, exactness and empathy offered at the clinic guarantee that the patient's prosperity, solace and needs are kept of best need.
Dr. Hrishikesh Pai
Dr. Pai, other than being a MD gold medalist at the University of Mumbai and Masters of Science in Clinical Embryology and Andrology from the Eastern Virginia Medical school USA , has likewise been the beneficiary of the Rashtriya Ekta grant, the Best Doctor grant from the Indian Medical Association, the Navshakti grant for yeomen benefit in medicine, and even the Jai Hind College graduated class grant Dr. Pai, other than being a MD gold medalist at the University of Mumbai and Masters of Science in Clinical Embryology and Andrology from the Eastern Virginia Medical school USA, has additionally been the beneficiary of the Rashtriya Ekta grant, the Best Doctor grant from the Indian Medical Association, the Navshakti grant for yeomen benefit in medicine, and even the Jai Hind College graduated class grant.
What these honors demonstrate are the numerous aspects of this man who is something beyond a rumored doctor, a scholarly, and a social worker.Dr. Hrishikesh Pai is outstanding amongst other Gynecologists in Mumbai, Mumbai. He examined and finished MBBS. You can counsel Dr. Hrishikesh Pai at Fortis Hiranandani Hospital - Vashi in Mumbai, Mumbai. Dr. Hrishikesh Pai Find various Gynecologists in India from the solace of your home .
You will find Gynecologists with over 28 long periods of experience . You can find Gynecologists online in Mumbai and from crosswise over India. View the profile of medicinal experts and their audits from different patients to settle on an informed choice. Dr. Hrishikesh He did his one year partnership in Reproductive Biology from the University of Melbourne Australia, in 1989. He is the logical chief of Two IVF units in Mumbai-'The Babies and Us' Fertility, IVF and ICSI Center at Opera House and 'The Advanced Fertility Center' At the Lilavati Hospital, Bandra.
His was the third unit in India to have begun the method of Micromanipulation-ICSI in 1996 in Mumbai.He has gotten training in Preimplantation hereditary qualities at the two leading institutes on the planet the Verlinsky unit in Chicago and the Az Vub in Brussels.His unit was the third unit in India to have begun Preimplantation hereditary qualities determination in 1998.
Dr Sachin Dalal
Dr. Sachin Dalal is a gynecologist, obstetrician, Laparoscopic specialist and infertility expert in Bhandup West, Mumbai. He has an ordeal of 17 years in these fields. He rehearses at Madhu Hospital in Bhandup west, Mumbai. He has MD, DNB, FCPS and DGO degrees from Mumbai University and National Board of Examinations, Delhi.
He is an existence individual from Mumbai Obstetric and Gynecological Society (MOGS), Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI), Medical Council of India (MCI) and Indian Association of Gynecological Endoscopist (IAGE).
He has won different prizes and honors at the MOGS yearly meetings and has displayed and distributed numerous papers his specialization is in Gynecological laparoscopic medical procedures which he was trained at Kiel, Germany and Clermont Ferrand, France.
He additionally an authority in Infertility treatment and IVF/Test tube baby.Dr. Sachin Dalal is a standout amongst other Gynecologists in Bhandup, Mumbai. He has more than 17 long stretches of understanding as a Gynecologist. He has done MD, DNB, FCPS, DGO, MBBS (Obstetrics and Gynecology). He is at present connected with Madhu Polyclinic and Nursing Home in Bhandup, Mumbai. You will find Gynecologists with over 25 long periods of experience . You can find Gynecologists online in Mumbai and from crosswise over India. View the profile of medicinal authorities and their surveys from different patients to settle on an informed choice.For a complete list of Best Fertility Doctor in Mumbai can contact at Elawoman.com.
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Why This Single Man Chose To Become A Dad Via IVF
Tom Garden worked in his family’s business for 10 years, staying on to help the company transition after it was sold in 2013. When he left, he realized the job to which he had devoted so much time had never made him truly happy.
“I was all-consumed with the business and never thought about much else,” he told HuffPost. 
As a man in his 40s, he had expected to have a family by now, but instead he was single with no kids. He was tired of online dating and hadn’t met anyone he connected with on a deeper level. He figured his chance to have children was over. Then, he learned more about IVF and surrogacy.
Garden, 47, is now the proud father of Joseph, born June 25, 2016 in Arkansas.
Garden’s journey to fatherhood started with a trip to Israel and a “chance encounter” on a bus with a cousin he hadn’t seen in 20 years. As they talked, his cousin commented that if Garden didn’t have kids, his lineage was “going to die out.”
“That was the turning point for me because that really, really struck me,” Garden told HuffPost.
When Garden returned home to Minneapolis, he started researching IVF and surrogacy at the encouragement of his mother.
Dr. Thomas Molinaro of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (RMANJ), which helped Garden find his surrogate, told HuffPost that Garden is part of a small group of single men becoming fathers with help from IVF. Though RMANJ sees “a fair number of same-sex male couples that go through with it,” single men seeking information on IVF are not common. 
“It’s pretty rare, unfortunately,” he told HuffPost. “We really only do see a handful of those patients every year, and only one or two will go through with it.”
When asked why single men aren’t as likely to think of IVF and surrogacy as options, Molinaro credited their immense cost, and said men are also not as “in touch with the whole process.”
“Women understand from a very young age the whole process of ovulation and pregnancy and their periods, and they’re aware of all the components of it,” he told HuffPost. “Men aren’t very attuned to it. They don’t feel the same pressure in terms of age that women do.”
When Garden chose to pursue IVF and surrogacy, he decided he wanted a Jewish egg donor because “culturally it was important” to him, but he couldn’t find one at an agency in the Midwest. He then found one at NY LifeSpring in New York, as well as a surrogate at Surrogate Steps.
Garden and the surrogate who carried Joseph became close friends during her pregnancy. She gave him info on her appointments and offered updates on her progress. The two are still in touch now. She answers Garden’s parenting questions, offers encouragement and even invited him to see one of her kids graduate.
Garden told HuffPost that Joseph, now almost a year old, is “very, very happy” and “very independent.”
“When he comes up and says, ‘Dada!’ and hugs me, it’s worth everything,” he told HuffPost. “He’s a gift. He really is a gift, and it’s been such a blessing to have a child. I never thought I would have one.”
Since becoming a father, Garden said he has encountered a few “puzzled looks” in relation to his family. 
“There is still some misconception that a single guy can’t raise a kid,” he said.
Garden clearly doesn’t let the stigma affect him. On June 27, he will be “going for number two.” He and the surrogate who carried Joseph are scheduled to try another embryo transfer so Garden can welcome another child. 
He encouraged other single men who might be in his previous position not to “be afraid” of turning to IVF and surrogacy to start a family. Though his path to fatherhood was not what he imagined, he is proud to be a father and happy with the way things fell into place. 
“I never thought this is how I would have kids,” he told HuffPost. “I always thought I would do the traditional way and be married, but sometimes things don’t work out the way you think. It’s been a beautiful experience.”
H/T Inside Edition
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Why This Single Man Chose To Become A Dad Via IVF
Tom Garden worked in his family’s business for 10 years, staying on to help the company transition after it was sold in 2013. When he left, he realized the job to which he had devoted so much time had never made him truly happy.
“I was all-consumed with the business and never thought about much else,” he told HuffPost. 
As a man in his 40s, he had expected to have a family by now, but instead he was single with no kids. He was tired of online dating and hadn’t met anyone he connected with on a deeper level. He figured his chance to have children was over. Then, he learned more about IVF and surrogacy.
Garden, 47, is now the proud father of Joseph, born June 25, 2016 in Arkansas.
Garden’s journey to fatherhood started with a trip to Israel and a “chance encounter” on a bus with a cousin he hadn’t seen in 20 years. As they talked, his cousin commented that if Garden didn’t have kids, his lineage was “going to die out.”
“That was the turning point for me because that really, really struck me,” Garden told HuffPost.
When Garden returned home to Minneapolis, he started researching IVF and surrogacy at the encouragement of his mother.
Dr. Thomas Molinaro of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (RMANJ), which helped Garden find his surrogate, told HuffPost that Garden is part of a small group of single men becoming fathers with help from IVF. Though RMANJ sees “a fair number of same-sex male couples that go through with it,” single men seeking information on IVF are not common. 
“It’s pretty rare, unfortunately,” he told HuffPost. “We really only do see a handful of those patients every year, and only one or two will go through with it.”
When asked why single men aren’t as likely to think of IVF and surrogacy as options, Molinaro credited their immense cost, and said men are also not as “in touch with the whole process.”
“Women understand from a very young age the whole process of ovulation and pregnancy and their periods, and they’re aware of all the components of it,” he told HuffPost. “Men aren’t very attuned to it. They don’t feel the same pressure in terms of age that women do.”
When Garden chose to pursue IVF and surrogacy, he decided he wanted a Jewish egg donor because “culturally it was important” to him, but he couldn’t find one at an agency in the Midwest. He then found one at NY LifeSpring in New York, as well as a surrogate at Surrogate Steps.
Garden and the surrogate who carried Joseph became close friends during her pregnancy. She gave him info on her appointments and offered updates on her progress. The two are still in touch now. She answers Garden’s parenting questions, offers encouragement and even invited him to see one of her kids graduate.
Garden told HuffPost that Joseph, now almost a year old, is “very, very happy” and “very independent.”
“When he comes up and says, ‘Dada!’ and hugs me, it’s worth everything,” he told HuffPost. “He’s a gift. He really is a gift, and it’s been such a blessing to have a child. I never thought I would have one.”
Since becoming a father, Garden said he has encountered a few “puzzled looks” in relation to his family. 
“There is still some misconception that a single guy can’t raise a kid,” he said.
Garden clearly doesn’t let the stigma affect him. On June 27, he will be “going for number two.” He and the surrogate who carried Joseph are scheduled to try another embryo transfer so Garden can welcome another child. 
He encouraged other single men who might be in his previous position not to “be afraid” of turning to IVF and surrogacy to start a family. Though his path to fatherhood was not what he imagined, he is proud to be a father and happy with the way things fell into place. 
“I never thought this is how I would have kids,” he told HuffPost. “I always thought I would do the traditional way and be married, but sometimes things don’t work out the way you think. It’s been a beautiful experience.”
H/T Inside Edition
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Why This Single Man Chose To Become A Dad Via IVF
Tom Garden worked in his family’s business for 10 years, staying on to help the company transition after it was sold in 2013. When he left, he realized the job to which he had devoted so much time had never made him truly happy.
“I was all-consumed with the business and never thought about much else,” he told HuffPost. 
As a man in his 40s, he had expected to have a family by now, but instead he was single with no kids. He was tired of online dating and hadn’t met anyone he connected with on a deeper level. He figured his chance to have children was over. Then, he learned more about IVF and surrogacy.
Garden, 47, is now the proud father of Joseph, born June 25, 2016 in Arkansas.
Garden’s journey to fatherhood started with a trip to Israel and a “chance encounter” on a bus with a cousin he hadn’t seen in 20 years. As they talked, his cousin commented that if Garden didn’t have kids, his lineage was “going to die out.”
“That was the turning point for me because that really, really struck me,” Garden told HuffPost.
When Garden returned home to Minneapolis, he started researching IVF and surrogacy at the encouragement of his mother.
Dr. Thomas Molinaro of Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (RMANJ), which helped Garden find his surrogate, told HuffPost that Garden is part of a small group of single men becoming fathers with help from IVF. Though RMANJ sees “a fair number of same-sex male couples that go through with it,” single men seeking information on IVF are not common. 
“It’s pretty rare, unfortunately,” he told HuffPost. “We really only do see a handful of those patients every year, and only one or two will go through with it.”
When asked why single men aren’t as likely to think of IVF and surrogacy as options, Molinaro credited their immense cost, and said men are also not as “in touch with the whole process.”
“Women understand from a very young age the whole process of ovulation and pregnancy and their periods, and they’re aware of all the components of it,” he told HuffPost. “Men aren’t very attuned to it. They don’t feel the same pressure in terms of age that women do.”
When Garden chose to pursue IVF and surrogacy, he decided he wanted a Jewish egg donor because “culturally it was important” to him, but he couldn’t find one at an agency in the Midwest. He then found one at NY LifeSpring in New York, as well as a surrogate at Surrogate Steps.
Garden and the surrogate who carried Joseph became close friends during her pregnancy. She gave him info on her appointments and offered updates on her progress. The two are still in touch now. She answers Garden’s parenting questions, offers encouragement and even invited him to see one of her kids graduate.
Garden told HuffPost that Joseph, now almost a year old, is “very, very happy” and “very independent.”
“When he comes up and says, ‘Dada!’ and hugs me, it’s worth everything,” he told HuffPost. “He’s a gift. He really is a gift, and it’s been such a blessing to have a child. I never thought I would have one.”
Since becoming a father, Garden said he has encountered a few “puzzled looks” in relation to his family. 
“There is still some misconception that a single guy can’t raise a kid,” he said.
Garden clearly doesn’t let the stigma affect him. On June 27, he will be “going for number two.” He and the surrogate who carried Joseph are scheduled to try another embryo transfer so Garden can welcome another child. 
He encouraged other single men who might be in his previous position not to “be afraid” of turning to IVF and surrogacy to start a family. Though his path to fatherhood was not what he imagined, he is proud to be a father and happy with the way things fell into place. 
“I never thought this is how I would have kids,” he told HuffPost. “I always thought I would do the traditional way and be married, but sometimes things don’t work out the way you think. It’s been a beautiful experience.”
H/T Inside Edition
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