Download or read book Surrogate Motherhood written by Helena Ragone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart is a compelling account written with analytical clarity and remarkable compassion. Helena Ragoné has given long overdue humanity and voice to the actual participants in the surrogate motherhood experience—a heretofore inaccessible population—and the results are fascinating. Anyone interested in fertility, parenting, reproduction, and kinship, or anyone interested in contemporary culture will want to read this book.
Download or read book Surrogate Hearts written by Betsy Love and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Havala must flee Earth in order to save the lives of her unborn babies.Contracted as a surrogate mother, she never dreamed all three embryos would take. The outraged father sues her. She must abort two babies.Havala's only remedy is to accept a marriage proposal to a desperate off-world man.Surrogate Hearts, the third romantic tale in the StarBride Chronicles series, explores the struggle of finding true love on a planet of incredible beauty and unforgiving danger.
Download or read book Surrogate Hearts written by Betsy Love and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why I m So Special written by Carla Lewis-Long and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book tackles a very difficult, complicated subject in a sweet, whimisical way. A lighthearted picture book on surrogacy."--Cover p. [4].
Download or read book The Surrogate Heart written by Howard Douglas Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Sophia s Broken Crayons written by Crystal Falk and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophia's Broken Crayons is a book for young children, recommended for children ages 2 to 6 years old which tells a story of surrogacy from a young child's perspective in a practical way that children can understand and grasp. A little girl by the name of Sophia is heartbroken after she discovers all of her crayons are broken. Sophia's friend's share their crayons with her as she experiences seeing her parents choose to give the gift of surrogacy to their friends. Sophia's Broken Crayons is a very easy and understanding way to help explain surrogacy to a young child which include questions such as why can't everyone have a baby? Why would someone choose a surrogate to help grow their family? Why would someone choose to become a surrogate? Follow the story of Sophia as she learns about sharing and helping out friends in need as well as why moms and dads choose surrogates to help grow their families and why surrogates choose to help other families that way. From the Back Cover: Why is the sky blue? Why do dogs bark? When will I be tall? Where do babies come from? Kids ask a lot of questions. Some of them are easier to answer than others. Explaining why someone would choose to become a surrogate or why a family would choose a surrogate to help grow their family are even harder questions to answer. Sophia's Broken Crayons can help you answer those questions. As Sophia learns about sharing and helping out friends in need, your child can learn about why moms and dads choose surrogates to help grow their families and why surrogates choose to help other families that way. Sophia's story is about the shared hearts of surrogate families. Sometimes the simplest answer is the best. "A beautiful gift was given to make the sadness go away and to make the world a happier place. All it took was a heart that wanted to share happiness." About the Author: Crystal Falk is a children's book author, product designer and mother of two beautiful children. She has worked and is working on many projects and products for the surrogacy community and for pregnant women in general. In 2012, she decided to become a surrogate for a family and had her first surrobaby in March of 2013. In 2014, she started her business Birth, Bump and Beyond, LLC. When she is not working on ideas for new products, she is chasing her 4 and 2 year olds around the house and spending time with her fiancé. You can visit her at www.BirthBumpandBeyond.com/ Notes from the Author: Sophia's Broken Crayons was created to help address questions that children may ask during a surrogacy. Many question this book addresses were questions my own 3 year old daughter asked during my first surrogacy journey. It was during the surrogacy that the idea, and ultimately the book, was born. Notes from Surrogacy Together: The mission of Surrogacy Together is to share inspiring stories about Surrogacy with the world. Sophia's Broken Crayons is an inspiring example of how at even a young age one can understand the power of giving to others. We are excited to be able to share this story with you. If you are interested in finding out more information about Surrogacy go to www.BecomeaSurrogatetoday.com
Download or read book The Kangaroo Pouch written by Sarah Phillips Pellet and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meet Oliver, a young kangaroo whose mother has decided to help another family to have a child. Go wtih him as he takes you through - step-by-step - the wonderful journey of surrogacy!"--Back cover.
Download or read book Birthing a Mother written by Elly Teman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthing a Mother is the first ethnography to probe the intimate experience of gestational surrogate motherhood. In this beautifully written and insightful book, Elly Teman shows how surrogates and intended mothers carefully negotiate their cooperative endeavor. Drawing on anthropological fieldwork among Jewish Israeli women, interspersed with cross-cultural perspectives of surrogacy in the global context, Teman traces the processes by which surrogates relinquish any maternal claim to the baby even as intended mothers accomplish a complicated transition to motherhood. Teman’s groundbreaking analysis reveals that as surrogates psychologically and emotionally disengage from the fetus they carry, they develop a profound and lasting bond with the intended mother.
Download or read book Discounted Life written by Sharmila Rudrappa and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharmila Rudrappa interrogates the creation and maintenance of reproductive labor markets, the function of agencies and surrogacy brokers, and how women become surrogate mothers. Is surrogacy solely a labor contract for which the surrogate mother receives wages, or do its meanings and import exceed the confines of the market? Rudrappa argues that this reproductive industry is organized to control and disempower women workers and yet her interviews reveal that, by and large, the surrogate mothers in Bangalore found the experience life affirming. Rudrappa explores this tension, and the lived realities of many surrogate mothers whose deepening bodily commodification is paradoxically experienced as a revitalizing life development.
Download or read book Considering Surrogacy written by Lisa Oliver and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrogacy is an amazing gift that one person can give a couple that are not able to have children of their own. The surrogacy process is time consuming and often fraught with pitfalls along the way. But for many couples and the women prepared to be surrogates, the resulting child makes all of the issues associated with surrogacy seem irrelevant. After all we are talking about producing a new life here. A very wanted life, and it is for this reason that surrogacy is slowly gaining acceptance around the United States and other parts of the world. The purpose of this book is to provide a factual yet balanced report on both sides of the surrogacy process. On the one hand you will find out who can become a surrogate mother and the processes needed to make that happen. But there is also a lot of information here for those people who are looking at engaging a surrogate mother to carry their longed for child. The book explains the legality of the process (it is different according to what state you live in); who can be a surrogate; what costs and payments are involved and how to deal with some of the issues associated with surrogacy such as the emotional bond between mother and child, what to do when things go wrong and how to make the whole surrogacy process as positive as it can be. What many people fail to realize is that the surrogacy process involves a lot more people than the couple wanting the child, and the surrogate mother. Many surrogate mothers have husbands and children of their own that need to be considered when undertaking something this important. Likewise the couples who are hoping for a child often have to overcome extended family resistance to their desire to use a surrogate, although there are increasing cases of the surrogacy taking place within an extended family framework. At the heart of all this of course is the child. One would hope a blessed, unique individual that while coming into the world in slightly unusual circumstances is still loved and appreciated by a number of different people. Surrogacy flies in the face of hundreds of years of evolution that has seen a woman have a natural bond with the child she carries from before the moment of birth. To go through the pregnancy and then give the child to another person to bring up requires an incredible amount of strength and love on the part of the surrogate. This book celebrates this strength and love and all of the wonderful people who are part of the surrogacy process.
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 The Love Surrogate written by Michelle Doucet and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broken Bonds written by Jennifer Lahl and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world thousands of couples and singles procure babies through surrogacy arrangements. Many people see surrogacy as driven by compassion for those who desire a baby. But where is the compassion for the 'surrogate' mothers and their babies? Who are the faceless, nameless women who grow the babies in their bodies and give birth to them? Women who are left with empty arms and leaking breasts after delivery? The surrogacy industry calls them special angels who make miracles possible, giving an extraordinary gift. IVF clinics call them gestational surrogates. The intended parents have promised healthcare, full reimbursement of costs, extra income and ongoing contact with the baby. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. Because surrogacy violates the human rights of the women whose bodies are used, and the rights of children who are traded as commodities. Because it is a fundamentally flawed and misogynist concept to imagine that women are interchangeable. And it is wishful thinking that regulation can fix this. All surrogacy needs to be stopped. In this book, strong and courageous women from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Romania, Hungary, Georgia and Russia share their stories of becoming 'surrogate' mothers and egg 'donors'. Their accounts are tragic, shocking, and reveal a profit-driven industry that preys on desperation and womens kindness.
Download or read book Surrogate Motherhood written by Helena Ragone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surrogate Motherhood: Conception in the Heart is a compelling account written with analytical clarity and remarkable compassion. Helena Ragoné has given long overdue humanity and voice to the actual participants in the surrogate motherhood experience--a heretofore inaccessible population--and the results are fascinating. Anyone interested in fertility, parenting, reproduction, and kinship, or anyone interested in contemporary culture will want to read this book.
Download or read book Experiencing Surrogacy written by Emily Dubin Field and published by Van Rye Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing Surrogacy is the true story of how a beautiful girl named Ava arrived in our world through a years-long collaboration of patience, determination, love, friendship, and professionalism between two couples, their families, and a host of professionals. The story is told, step by step, from the respective perspectives of the book's authors: Melissa, the gestational surrogate who carried and gave birth to Ava, and Emily, Ava's intended parent and mother. In telling the story, the authors provide the reader with a unique look into and candid advice about every step in the surrogacy process from the two most important sides of the surrogacy experience.--Back cover.
Download or read book A Matter of Trust written by Gail Dutton and published by Clouds Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A MATTER OF TRUST: THE GUIDE TO GESTATIONAL SURROGACY by Gail Dutton. (Gestational surrogacy: Surrogate mother carries the genetic child of another couple). This is the only guidebook to gestational surrogacy. Learn how couples save time, money & their sanity. * Surrogacy programs: What they offer & how to choose one; * Surrogates: Questions to ask prospective surrogates; * Medical concerns: What to expect, side-effects & embryo cryopreservation; * Expenses: Detailed fees & how to save money; * Contracts: "Must-include" clauses; * Laws: U. S. state surrogacy laws & laws in 12 other nations; * Goodbye: Ending the surrogacy partnership. WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING: "A MATTER OF TRUST has insights & information that you won't find anywhere else. If you're thinking about building your family through gestational surrogacy. put it on your must-read list."--Shirley Zager, Director, the Organization of Parents Through Surrogacy. "It's a fantastic book! I would love for everyone going through surrogacy to read this."--Cristie Montgomery, Director, Surrogate Parenting Services. ISBN: 0- 9655966-0-5. U. S. $21.95. Internet: http://www.clouds-publishing.com. Available April 1997 from: Clouds Publishing, 5319 University Dr., #348, Irvine, CA 92612-2935. Phone: (714) 786-4606.
