Making an Egg Donation Cycle Work. A brief look at what you might need to...
Through egg donation, many infertile women are now able to experience pregnancy: sharing their thoughts, feelings, blood supply and the sound of their voice with their baby, and delivering their child...
View ArticleSentencing of attorneys who plead guilty to baby selling. Is it Enough?
I have been following the cases against my former colleagues Theresa Erickson and Hilary Neiman for some time. I had known for awhile about the investigation but was still stunned when the plea...
View ArticleSurrogacy Symplified — The Masked Marauder of Misinformation Unmasked!
My phone has been ringing off the hook with questions from prospective clients about surrogacy. Everyone with whom I speak is terribly confused and seems to have received bad or misinformation from...
View ArticleWhen Infertility Professionals Get it Wrong.
You know it’s not that often that I see glaringly offensive comments or information from professionals in the infertility world. Most of us know to be very careful with the language we use so that we...
View ArticleThe Bizarre World of Embryo Banking. Where My Motherhood and Morality Meet.
Every once in a while I have true conflicts between my self as a former infertility patient and my career as a reproductive lawyer and adoption attorney. A couple of years ago, I wrote a law review...
View ArticleFrom Starbucks to Craigslist Sperm Donors Hit the Help Wanted’s
The perils of known sperm donation are reasonably well known. For those who read this blog you know all about my concerns about the Starbucks’ Sperm Donors. Alas now sperm donors are hitting...
View ArticleThe painful silence of recurrent pregnancy loss and stillbirth. A first hand...
The shrowd of silence around stillbirth and pregnancy loss finally is being lifted. Someone is making a documentary about miscarriage, recurrent pregnancy loss, and stillbirth. This morning I watched...
View ArticleThe Burning Pain of Infertility
Infertility brings with it many kinds of pain. The pain of an empty uterus could be used as the catch-all category for the pain we infertile folk feel, but really it can and should be broken down into...
View ArticlePost Traumatic Infertility Stress Disorder and National Infertility Awareness...
We are rapidly approaching National Infertility Awareness Week (April 21-27); a week that is devoted to raising awareness of infertility and its impact on our lives. This is an important week, not...
View ArticleHalle Berry Battles the NOvary: Pregnancy Defies the Odds of Fertility
So Halle Berry is pregnant at age 46. She’s approximately my age. Jealous much? You betcha! You all know I want another baby. It’s hardly a secret; certainly not from my kids, my dear husband (DH),...
View ArticleAdoption friendliness at its best. How one nurse blew me away and changed how...
Adoption is a complex world. As anyone who is going through the process, or who has gone through the process knows, the legal issues are complicated, the emotional issues are highly charged — about as...
View ArticleWhen Judge’s Get it Wrong When Endeavoring to Get it Right. Second-parent...
I promised a more human blog on this new case from Brooklyn. Here goes: By now most people are aware of the groundbreaking, landmark decision in the case of United States v. Windsor, a case which...
View ArticleThe Risk of Choosing The Mindset of Infertility
I’m back (after a blogging break) and I’m mad. Very mad. I am mad at doctors, mad at the media, mad at the reproductive community, mad, mad, mad! Why am I mad you ask? Good Question. It took me...
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Never, Ever Give Up
Today is one of those days where I wish I could make all the hurt and pain go away for one of my clients. For today, everything seems to be falling apart on their path to parenthood. The thing is, I...
View ArticleSherri Shepherd’s Surrogacy Battle and the View from the Other Side.
Sherri Shepherd. Who hasn’t heard her name recently? The former host of The View is in the midst of a major lawsuit with her ex-husband over her son. She claims she doesn’t have any responsibility...
View ArticleFive Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes – How do you measure...
Five Hundred Twenty Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes How do you measure your life in infertility treatment? How do you measure a day, or a year? Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred tests...
View ArticleThe Top Ten Things Reproductive Lawyers Can Help You With
Sometimes when I tell people what I do for a living they look at me like I have two heads. Reproductive Lawyer? What’s that??? Part One In this day and age when celebs like Sofia Vergara and her Ex...
View ArticleI Have A Bee in My Bonnet About Egg Banking
I really shouldn’t be here right now. But there is too much laundry, too many emails, and too many dishes to attend to not to choose to procrastinate right now and get some stuff off my mind. I have...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about surrogacy in NY and why you need to know it:...
The other day I had the privilege of visiting clients who had just come home from the hospital with their newborn. It was a compassionate surrogacy and it was time for everyone to sign papers either...
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If you have ever been infertile, Mother’s Day Can Freakin’ Suck.
If you have ever been infertile, Mother’s Day Can Freakin’ Suck. This is a picture of my mom. She had Stage IV endometriosis (like me), and as a result, only had me. She wanted more babies but...
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