Uncategorized The Not-Forgotten Infants Trapped By CoVid 19 The priority of most nations in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been to close their borders to foreigners while getting their own citizens ‘back home’. Many countries have shut down government departments, closed visa applications – some have introduced … Saturday, 18 April 2020 Uncategorized Advice for Parents with Georgia Births (April -July) The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it will be possible to provide permission for foreign citizens to enter Georgia during travel ban provided that their embassy contacts MFA Georgia with the following information: Intended Parents full name, Passport Number and … Wednesday, 15 April 2020 Uncategorized Global assistance for Emergency Parent Travel If your surrogate is due to give birth prior to 30 July in a country with travel restrictions, please contact your surrogacy agency for advice. The following ‘source’ countries have set up channels of communication with governments in respect to … Saturday, 28 March 2020 Uncategorized I Need to Travel. How can I protect myself? Many intended parents need to travel abroad in the coming weeks and months for the birth of their child(ren) via cross-border surrogacy. Chinese healthcare authorities now have the best understanding of Co-Vid-19, how it spreads and how to prevent this. … Sunday, 22 March 2020 Uncategorized CoVid-19 Entry & Exit for US Surrogacy Births ______________________________________________________________________________ Preliminary studies from China show no evidence that if a surrogate was infected with Co-Vid-19 she would pass it on to the child she births. Additional Time Off Work for Your Surrogate Some intended parents may want their surrogate … Thursday, 19 March 2020 Surrogacy Travel Restrictions to IVF/ Surrogacy Destinations In this difficult time, Growing Families is providing an update on current travel restrictions which will impact intended parents travelling internationally for embryo creation or the birth of children. OVERSEAS TRAVEL FOR BIRTHS (updated as at 4.30pm 22 July AEST) … Thursday, 19 March 2020 Surrogacy Europe Hearing from Ukranian Surrogates For many couples who have experienced medical complications in pregnancy, including the heartbreak of late miscarriage or still-birth, working with a surrogate to create their family becomes the best way forward. However surrogacy arrangements can be complicated emotionally and logistically. … Thursday, 6 February 2020 Success Story The Good Father – Lessons in Co-parenting Gay dad Rodney Cruise is something of an expert on setting expectations in Co-parenting arrangements. Over the last 14 years Rodney and his Taiwanese partner Jeff have between them fathered a child via surrogacy, four via co-parenting with two lesbian … Tuesday, 28 January 2020 Single Men Single Men Creating Families Planned single parenting used to be a trend only seen amongst single women using donor sperm. But in recent years, with the increasing popularity of surrogacy in Australia and abroad, more and more Single Men or Gay Males are opting … Saturday, 28 December 2019 Community Family building Learnings from 2019 As 2019 comes to a close, it is worth looking back over the year at some of the trends as well as learnings in regard to Family building thru Surrogacy and or Egg Donation globally. Over the year, we ran … Saturday, 28 December 2019 Uncategorized Surrogacy & Donor Choices – Do Your Research While many countries without access to surrogacy, many seeking to create biological family are venturing offshore. It has left some resorting to ‘unofficial’ traditional surrogacy, using the surrogates eggs and home insemination. Others have had a local friend offer to … Friday, 11 October 2019 Uncategorized The Legals of Surrogacy for Australians Three Australian jurisdictions – NSW, ACT & Queensland – have laws criminalising overseas surrogacy. However like the long outdated provisions criminalising abortion in NSW, these are laws which have never been prosecuted. In fact even when the rare case has … Monday, 30 September 2019 Previous 1…78910 Next
