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It’s Twins via Surrogate for Neil Patrick Harris and Partner

Friday, October 15th, 2010

It’s official.  Neil Patrick Harris and his partner, David Burtka, are now the proud parents of twins — a boy and a girl.

Like many gay couples, the men had to choose a non-traditional route to have a child together.  Preferring to use at least one of the couple’s DNA, Harris and Burtka chose the route of surrogacy.

Surrogacy is a process used by both heterosexual and homosexual partners and individuals in order to have a child.  A surrogate mother carries the child to term and then the baby is given to the parents.

If you’re contemplating going the surrogacy route, it’s critical to choose a clinic that has a great deal of experience in the process.  There are plenty of elements to the experience that would be difficult — if not practically impossible — to handle on one’s own.  And that begins with finding the right surrogate.

Our congratulations go out to Harris and Burtka and all the other moms and dads who have become parents through surrogacy.

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  • Using Diet to Improve Fertility Treatment Results

    Saturday, July 31st, 2010

    If you’re experiencing infertility, you’re likely to get a lot of advice.  And sooner or later the topic is going to turn to diet.  But can what you eat really improve the chances of your fertility treatments working? 

    All signs point to “yes” as the answer to that question. 

    Consider these points:

    • If you currently follow a diet that’s deficient in certain vitamins and you make a point of incorporating those missing elements into your food plan, you’ll be naturally healthier.  Therefore, you’ll be straining your body less from an internal perspective.
    • If you are seriously overweight or obese, starting a structured eating plan can indeed improve your fertility treatment results, mainly because your weight will be in a healthy range for your height, age, etc.  As long as you don’t go on a “crash diet” or start losing too much weight, you’ll have a better chance with whatever fertility treatments you try.
    • A lot of people — men and women — who struggle with infertility experience mood swings.  A healthier diet can assist in alleviating or minimizing the “ups and downs”.

    Again, there’s no way to tell if an alteration in what you eat will mean a child; however, it’s unlikely to hurt and can only make you feel and look healthier than ever.  And that’s not such a bad thing!

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