Download or read book Surrogacy Journal written by Betta James and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect keepsake journal for anyone going through surrogacy. Sections for Intended Parents, Donors, Surrogates, Photos, Milestones, Medical, Agency, Independent, Communication, Embryos, Ultrasounds, Appointments, Journal, Thoughts and Feelings, Baby stats and Birth Day. Suitable for any type of surrogacy and intended parents (of any gender) and a wonderful way to keep track of all the important history throughout your surrogacy journey. It also has the option to include egg donor and sperm donation as well as general surrogate history if you wish to. With surrogacy arrangements and intended parents based all over the world, this journal is of a neutral color scheme with text in English and plenty of space to write and stick in photos in the various sections as they occur. Pages include *Who the journal belongs to* About: Including room to write your family background, names, your story so far, the people that have supported you and why you've chosen to do surrogacy *Information about the surrogate *Medical information: Counselling, Contracts & Agency *Information about the day of transfer *Results after the two week wait *Ultrasounds & Appointment time lines *Communication *Journal *Memories *Information about the day of birth *Baby stats *Information about your family All printed in a high quality 8 x 10 portrait book

Download or read book Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy written by Daniela Bandelli and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core narratives of supporters and opponents of surrogacy, in order to understand this reproductive practice in light of some of the essential elements of contemporary societies, such as the “child at any cost” culture, individualism, technology and female emancipation. This book appeals to scholars, policy makers and all those who want to understand the controversial debate on this unprecedented method of family formation and life production.

Download or read book Your Pea My Pod written by Emilee Mielke and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surrogacy journal for gestational carriers and intended parents to treasure as a keepsake of their journey together.

Download or read book Labor of Love written by Heather Jacobson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the practice of surrogacy has existed for millennia, new fertility technologies have allowed women to act as gestational surrogates, carrying children that are not genetically their own. While some women volunteer to act as gestational surrogates for friends or family members, others get paid for performing this service. The first ethnographic study of gestational surrogacy in the United States, Labor of Love examines the conflicted attitudes that emerge when the ostensibly priceless act of bringing a child into the world becomes a paid occupation. Heather Jacobson interviews not only surrogate mothers, but also their family members, the intended parents who employ surrogates, and the various professionals who work to facilitate the process. Seeking to understand how gestational surrogates perceive their vocation, she discovers that many regard surrogacy as a calling, but are reluctant to describe it as a job. In the process, Jacobson dissects the complex set of social attitudes underlying this resistance toward conceiving of pregnancy as a form of employment. Through her extensive field research, Jacobson gives readers a firsthand look at the many challenges faced by gestational surrogates, who deal with complicated medical procedures, delicate work-family balances, and tricky social dynamics. Yet Labor of Love also demonstrates the extent to which advances in reproductive technology are affecting all Americans, changing how we think about maternity, family, and the labor involved in giving birth. For more, visit http://www.heatherjacobsononline.com/

Download or read book Their Pea My Pod written by Preggo Printers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 white pages featuring lined paper. Great journal to keep you organized during your journey as a surrogate. Use whatever system works for you to keep track of your IVF medication / shots, travel to / from clinics / doctor appointments, expenses, how you're feeling throughout the pregnancy, and life in general as you carry a singleton for your intended parents. Features original drawing of one happy, loving, bouncy sweet pea in a little pod! Thoughtful gift for the woman who is carrying your baby!

Download or read book My Surrogacy Journal written by Melissa Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fill-in journal for surrogate carriers to use to document their pregnancy.

Download or read book The Stork s Assistant written by Khrys Thomas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you been looking for the perfect gift for your IPs? Look no further. This Surrogacy Journey Journal will be a treasured keepsake when your journey is complete. A beautifully designed journal geared towards surrogates who wish to immortalize this wonderful journey and have a stunning and thoughtful gift to give their intended parents. With The Stork's Assistant Surrogacy Journal, you have a carefully laid out, week by week planner that includes all of the steps of a surrogacy journey. Large enough to fit full-size ultrasound pictures, but small enough to take to every appointment and have at your fingertips to record your thoughts and notes. The Stork's Assistant includes: *190 pages ready for the important information from your journey *Week by week planner with pages for medication schedules and RE/OB appointments *8" x 10" size is perfect for pictures and has extra room for notes! Some exciting features you won't find in any other surrogacy journal: *Getting to know your Surrogate section with room for photos *Pre-Transfer section with important dates timeline *Transfer section with room for pictures and embryo details *Weekly sections with room for ultrasound and baby bump pictures *Follow the baby as it grows from the size of a poppy seed to a watermelon *Lined journal pages for special thoughts You're going on a beautiful journey. Why not commemorate every step with a journal designed to celebrate this momentous experience? As the surrogate, this journal will help you keep all your important information in one place. And when you have welcomed a happy, healthy new life to this world, you will have a quality keepsake recording every captivating step of the journey.

Download or read book Wombs in Labor written by Amrita Pande and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita Pande visits clinics and hostels and speaks with surrogates and their families, clients, doctors, brokers, and hostel matrons in order to shed light on this burgeoning business and the experiences of the laborers within it. From recruitment to training to delivery, Pande's research focuses on how reproduction meets production in surrogacy and how this reflects characteristics of India's larger labor system. Pande's interviews prove surrogates are more than victims of disciplinary power, and she examines the strategies they deploy to retain control over their bodies and reproductive futures. While some women are coerced into the business by their families, others negotiate with clients and their clinics to gain access to technologies and networks otherwise closed to them. As surrogates, the women Pande meets get to know and make the most of advanced medical discoveries. They traverse borders and straddle relationships that test the boundaries of race, class, religion, and nationality. Those who focus on the inherent inequalities of India's surrogacy industry believe the practice should be either banned or strictly regulated. Pande instead advocates for a better understanding of this complex labor market, envisioning an international model of fair-trade surrogacy founded on openness and transparency in all business, medical, and emotional exchanges.

Download or read book The Stork s Assistant 9 written by Khrys Thomas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you been looking for the perfect gift for your IPs? Look no further. This Surrogacy Journey Journal will be a treasured keepsake when your journey is complete. A beautifully designed journal geared towards surrogates who wish to immortalize this wonderful journey and have a stunning and thoughtful gift to give their intended parents. With The Stork's Assistant Surrogacy Journal, you have a carefully laid out, week by week planner that includes all of the steps of a surrogacy journey. Large enough to fit full-size ultrasound pictures, but small enough to take to every appointment and have at your fingertips to record your thoughts and notes. The Stork's Assistant includes: *190 pages ready for the important information from your journey *Week by week planner with pages for medication schedules and RE/OB appointments *8" x 10" size is perfect for pictures and has extra room for notes! Some exciting features you won't find in any other surrogacy journal: *Getting to know your Surrogate section with room for photos *Pre-Transfer section with important dates timeline *Transfer section with room for pictures and embryo details *Weekly sections with room for ultrasound and baby bump pictures *Follow the baby as it grows from the size of a poppy seed to a watermelon *Lined journal pages for special thoughts You're going on a beautiful journey. Why not commemorate every step with a journal designed to celebrate this momentous experience? As the surrogate, this journal will help you keep all your important information in one place. And when you have welcomed a happy, healthy new life to this world, you will have a quality keepsake recording every captivating step of the journey.

Download or read book Growing You written by Korie Herold and published by Blue Star Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your pregnancy story is a special one. Document your most precious moments from this season of life in this elegant keepsake journal and memory book. Growing You is a place to celebrate and chronicle your pregnancy journey, reflecting on the growth, anticipation, and memories that you want to hold onto as a mother. This heirloom-quality book, created by the author of the popular baby book As You Grow, is designed with a timeless look and archival paper so that you can one day pass it along to your child. Growing You includes: Space to journal your feelings and experiences about pregnancy and your birth story A section to document your prenatal appointments and growth Writing prompts to record precious milestones such as baby showers and prepping your nursery Pages to document your baby's birth day Pocket folder for sonogram photos, letters from loved ones, and other mementos And more! Special Features: Chic, gender-neutral design Elegant linen cover Acid-free and archival paper Generous trim size offers ample space for photos Lay-flat design created by a beautiful gold spiral binding allows you to easily write in the book

Download or read book Full Surrogacy Now written by Sophie Lewis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where pregnancy is concerned, let every pregnancy be for everyone. Let us overthrow, in short, the “family” The surrogacy industry is estimated to be worth over $1 billion a year, and many of its surrogates around the world work in terrible conditions—deception, wage-stealing and money skimming are rife; adequate medical care is horrifyingly absent; and informed consent is depressingly rare. In Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis brings a fresh and unique perspective to the topic. Often, we think of surrogacy as the problem, but, Full Surrogacy Now argues, we need more surrogacy, not less! Rather than looking at surrogacy through a legal lens, Lewis argues that the needs and protection of surrogates should be put front and center. Their relationship to the babies they gestate must be rethought, as part of a move to recognize that reproduction is productive work. Only then can we begin to break down our assumptions that children “belong” to those whose genetics they share. Taking collective responsibility for children would radically transform our notions of kinship, helping us to see that it always takes a village to make a baby.

Download or read book Towards a Professional Model of Surrogate Motherhood written by Ruth Walker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy – the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book proposes a novel arrangement for surrogate motherhood – the professional model. Inspired by professions, such as nursing, teaching, and social work, the professional model acknowledges the caring motives that surrogate mothers have while at the same time compensating them for their work. Walker and Van Zyl adopt an evidence-based approach to explain that the professional model enables trust between intended parents and surrogates, provides professional support at every stage of the relationship, affords legal protections against exploitation and commodification, and recognizes the rights and interests of all parties, including the intended baby. The model applies to both transnational and domestic surrogacy and will be of great interest to policy makers, social researchers, bioethicists, legal scholars, fertility professionals, clinicians, and graduate students in psychology, philosophy, medicine and ethics.

Download or read book Surrogate Motherhood written by Rachel Cook and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary book explores legal, ethical, social, psychological and practical aspects of surrogate motherhood in Britain and abroad.

Download or read book Our Surrogacy Journal written by Surrogacy Journals Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This surrogacy journal is a simple blank lined journal to use to document and plan your surrogacy journey! Why not fill this journal and keep it as a special keepsake and gift it to your child for a speical occasion in years to come to remind them of how much they were wanted and loved! * Glossy covered Blank journal/ Journals to write in/Journal notebook/Blank journal/ Lined journal/ quote covered journal/ Writing journal/ Approximately 6 x 8-inches * 125 lined pages to write in* Section sewn binding keeps pages secure

Download or read book A Gay Couple s Journey Through Surrogacy written by Jerry Bigner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply personal account of the trials and tribulations of the surrogacy journey! Surrogacy’s been coldly and unjustifiably called “baby buying” and “baby selling” and many states have banned it. But those insensitive terms do not tell the inspiring tale of a couple fiercely wanting to become parents. A Gay Couple’s Experience with Surrogacy: Intended Fathers is the moving true story of a gay couple’s decision to have their child through a surrogate mother. With humor and emotion, the author traces their intense experience from the initial decision to have a child through surrogacy on through the entire pregnancy and birth. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy chronicles this couple’s no-holds-barred account of the emotional toll, the legal matters, the financial concerns, and the ultimate fulfillment of parenting a child. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy reveals the author’s answers to these questions: why surrogacy over adoption? which type of surrogacy—traditional or gestational? what were the issues when choosing a surrogate? how much does surrogacy cost? what living expenses are included in the cost? what are the emotional and financial reasons that surrogates choose to bear another’s child? what are the pitfalls in choosing surrogacy? what are the legal issues—what to beware and what to consider An excerpt: Before I knew it, I was writing an ad of my own, and I actually posted it. David, of course, had no idea what I was up to. The ad read: “We’re a gay couple in New York that just celebrated our fourteenth anniversary and we’ve decided to extend our family. We’re looking for someone close by and even have a separate apartment available if needed.” Nice, huh? Could it be just a little bit more. . . vague? Could my ad have lacked a little more personality? Sure, have our baby and move right in while you’re doing it! Who the hell would respond to that? I wasn’t even sure after reading it myself that it made any sense. But what should I have said? What could I have said? I scrambled to find a way to delete it, but couldn’t. A Gay Couple's Journey Through Surrogacy is a touching memoir that reveals the challenges that face gay and lesbian couples who may be considering either adoption or surrogacy.

Download or read book Laws and Policies on Surrogacy written by Harleen Kaur and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases. It provides a comprehensive coverage to various issues pertaining to surrogacy arrangements due to failure to meet the needs of those involved in surrogacy, be it the intended parents or the surrogate mother, with special emphasis on the most vulnerable party -- the surrogate child. In the wake of this existing imbalance, the call to reform the practice of surrogacy has also increased. The book provides a comprehensive coverage to various laws and policy regulations in existence dealing with surrogacy, and unravels the latest trends and developments happening around the world as surrogacy gains importance. The international perspectives highlight policies and practices being adopted and followed by various nations with regard to surrogacy regulation and associated parenthood rules. This book also analyses some of the significant cross-border disputes revolving around surrogacy, and explores briefly the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights on matters of parentage and citizenship for children born of trans-national surrogacy with special reference to the prospects of a convention on international surrogacy currently being studied by The Hague Conference on Private International Law. Further, it highlights the issues and questions relating to surrogacy arrangements that are so far unresolved and unanswered and suggests measures for improvements to the existing proposed surrogacy legislation in India and need for uniform international regulation. The book is a great resource for legal practitioners, academics, students, policy-makers, infertility clinics, and charitable organizations working on this issue.

Download or read book Surrogacy Journal from Me to You written by Daisy Scott and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This journal is intended to be a gift from you to your intended parents as a keepsake, or keep it for yourself as your own personal keepsake of your special journey.This journal can be used for traditional and gestational surrogates. It's based off a journey in the United Kingdom.Having been a surrogate myself, I could not find a surrogacy journal that I felt covered all that I wanted and acted as a keepsake for my intended parents. So, I have created this in the hopes that it benefits other surrogates from the beginning and beyond.Pages cover important dates, times, thoughts and feelings, as well as photos to look back on. Starting with the 'Getting to Know' your intended parents through to the Parental Order. For many of us who have chosen to become a surrogate we continue the friendships we have made along the way, with other surrogates, our intended parents, and so on.I hope you enjoy filling out this journal and have a wonderful journey.With Love,Daisy x