The Surrogacy Lawyer Radio Showing
Posted on January 18, 2011
On January 20th at 11 a.m. PST I’ll be on the The Surrogacy Lawyer Radio Show: Your Guide to IVF and Third Party Family Building episode discussing the advocacy efforts in Arizona. Theresa Erickson, the host of the show, is the managing partner of Erickson Law (www.ericksonlaw.net) and chair and founder of Conceptual Options, The Surrogacy and Egg Donation Center (www.conceptualoptions.com). She also is on the board of the American Fertility Association, as well as the legal director for Parents Via Egg Donation.
Her show focuses on all types of issues related to infertility and family building. Shows in December were about nutrition; mental health for surrogates, egg donors and intended parents; reasons to laugh at infertility; international IVF and third-party reproduction; and more. Listen to past shows at Surrogacy Law Radio.
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Financial Abundance Prayer Offering
Posted on January 5, 2011
A friend of mine is offering a Monetary and Financial Abundance Prayer Offering. She wants to assist people so the can release financially limiting energy blocks and form new habits that will help you create financial abundance.
Gabrielle is offering, free of charge, a prayer / meditation in Theta, done every Friday, which will assist each person to enhance their financial abundance. By agreeing to participate, each person gives their permission to have their Higher Self called together on the etheric – which causes the combined energy of the group to raise the vibration of the prayer.
This is a personal, energetic agreement, you may only submit your own name for the Monetary and Financial Abundance Prayer Offering.
The more participants, the greater the potential energy shift! If you wish to be included in this prayer request, click Financial Abundance Program to register.
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Information on Embryo Donation
Posted on November 8, 2010
Do you know about embryo donation? Is this an idea your RE offered, but you are not sure how it works or why you should consider it? View RESOLVE’s National Advocacy for Embryo Donation video: So what exactly is embryo donation?
This video series was launched because embryo donation can be a challenge for some to understand. RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association launched a first-of-its-kind video series, in which RESOLVE’s executive director Barbara Collura answers people’s questions about embryo donation, an emerging family building option. The “So what exactly is embryo donation?” video series includes 11 short, one- to two-minute videos answering questions submitted by MyDestinationFamily.org visitors. For additional videos visit the archive at RESOLVE. Check out the videos and test your knowledge about embryo donation.
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Embryo Donation
Posted on November 3, 2010
Want information on embryo donation? Join RESOLVE for an interview with Barb Collura about this important family building topic. On November 5th at 3 p.m. ET, blogger Lori Holden, one of Parenting Magazine’s Top 10 Must-Read Moms, will host a Twitterview featuring RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association’s executive director Barbara Collura. The Twitterview – an interview exchanged in real-time on Twitter – will focus on questions Lori has for Barb concerning embryo donation and adoption. You are invited to follow along using the unique hashtag, #TVLH (for Twitterview with Lori Holden), and observe this first-ever direct question-and-answer exchange between Barbara (@RESOLVEorg) and Lori (@LavLuz).
If you’re unable to join RESOLVE on Friday, visit RESOLVE’s MyDestinationFamily.org for a full re-cap of the interview.
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Arizona Adoption Seminar
Posted on October 26, 2010
The Arizona affiliate of RESOLVE is hosting an Adoption Seminar on November 6, 2010 from 8am-12noon. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. Details on the seminar are as follows:
Date and Time: November 6, 2010 from 8am-12noon. Registration at 7:30 a.m.
Location: 1111 E. McDowell Road, Phoenix, AZ 85006 (located at McDowell and12th Streets)
How YOU can participate:
The Adoption Seminar is an event dedicated to couples who desire to build their families through adoption. You will learn the differences in the application process between domestic and international adoption. You’ll hear how to choose an adoption agency, the laws regarding adoption, the rights of the adopting parents as well as the birthparents. Discover the countries currently allowing adoptions, their unique challenges, and the different requirements of each country. Other topics include: Adoptive Parent Panel, Adoption Home Study, Financing Adoption, and How to Get Picked.
Register to attend the event by November 4th. Visit: www.southwest.resolve.org. Walk-in registration accepted, but registering online will help prevent cancellation of the event for low attendance.
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Filming Embryos
Posted on October 25, 2010
A journalist sent me a link to a video about filming embryos. Since every bit of information is good when you are dealing with a medical procedure such as IVF, I volunteered to post the link here.
Basically, the video talks about how filming embryos as they grow the first few day may help doctors select the best embryos to use in an IVF cycle. The video is not clear about how common this technique is in practice, but it could be something doctors will start using in the near future. This is an example of progress toward perfecting IVF and reducing the occurrence of multiple births.
Take a few minutes to learn about filming embryos and ask your doctor if they use this technique: Filming Embryos Improves Chances of Pregnancy.
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IVF – it is a good thing!
Posted on October 21, 2010
I cannot believe it has been 2 months since I wrote a blog post for Twin Peas. I guess that is what happens when you start working.
So much has happened the past few weeks in the infertility world. Journalists were busy writing articles about families that have had a baby using IVF since Dr. Robert Edwards won the Nobel Prize for medicine. If you haven’t read the article on CNN.com do so, it is a positive article on IVF (IVF doctors, families celebrate creator’s Nobel Prize).
So what does this publicity mean for IVF and other fertility treatments? That is yet to be seen, but it is wonderful to see the articles are positive about this medical procedure, finally. And people are sharing their stories. Yea!
I have been searching CNN.com for an article about families created using IVF (it should be dated after Oct. 4t). I was contacted by a reporter for the article but didn’t call her back in time to be included. If anyone has read it, I’d love to have the link.
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Accutane – Risks to Pregnancy
Posted on August 12, 2010
Recently I received an email requesting the addition of a resource to my website. I am sympathetic to any cause that desires to help women in pregnancy and childbirth. As a believer in patient advocacy I believe the information they shared is worthy of posting here.
Here are comments from a Drugwatch.com representative, We are currently raising awareness about the prescription drug Accutane, a drug used to treat acne. There is a current Black Box warning on Accutane, cautions consumers about its potential to harm unborn children that include birth defects, premature births and even death in babies when a mother has taken the drug. Additional serious side effects associated with Accutane use include depression, colitis, and liver disease. The drug is causing a significant amount of damage and serious harm to patients.
If you or anyone you know is taking Accutane and desires to have a baby, you need to learn more about the risks of this drug. The Drugwatch.com website is full of interesting information on all types of medications. It might be helpful to do a search on the medications you currently take to see how those medications might impacts your ability to get pregnant, stay pregnant or have a healthy baby.
For more information specifically on Accutane visit the: Accutane Lawsuit: page to find out how the acne drug Accutane causes the spine condition skeletal hyperostosis and other serious side effects like birth defects, ulcerative colitis, and depression.
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