The Baby Makers

By Diana Frank

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881843741
• ISBN13: 9780881843743
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Baby Makers by Frank and Vogel

The work explains how infertile couples can develop strategies to increase the likelihood of having children. The authors describe the mechanics of sperm banks, embroyo/ovum transfer and surrogate motherhood. Ovum transfer involves a woman donating an egg impregnated by sperm from another's husband. The author discusses how sperm banks pay more money for college-educateddonors. The practical problems inherent in later marriages are discussed. i.e. career planning The fertility drugs Clomid and Pergonal are described. Pergonal stimulates the ovaries. The authors discuss the children emerging from these new birth conceptions and the practical issues to be dealt with on anongoing basis. The work is valuable for anyone contemplatingalternative strategies to infertility. A wide variety ofknown and not-so-well-known methods and techniques are explored in great detail by the authors. The work is valuable because itcentralizes popular strategies to deal with infertility.