Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care

Infertility from the Male Perspective

Primary Ovarian Insufficiency / Premature Ovarian Failure

Adopting Without Going Into Debt

How to Choose an Adoption Agency

On top of everything else infuriating about infertility, it can also be embarrassing.  Today’s your chance to ask those embarrassing questions that you would prefer to not ask even your own doctor.  Our guest expert is Dr. Jim Toner, a JIM TONER, MD, PHD, a board certified specialist in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility with the Atlanta Center for Reproductive Medicine.  For this show’s discussion his doctoral training in psychology may also come in handy. We will talk about sexually transmitted diseases, venereal disease, abortions, mixed emotions about motherhood, tampon use, sexual positions, frequency of sex, and any other questions you have about how to get pregnant and what is standing in your way.

What are the legal issues you need to be aware of if you are considering building your family with third party reproduction?  Join our guests Reproductive Law attorneys Ruth Claiborne and Amy Demma.  Ruth is with the adoption and reproductive law firm of Claiborne & Surmay,  with offices in Atlanta Geiorgia and a satellite office in Savannah., GA.  Ruth has been working in this area of law for over 30 years and is a member of the American Academy of Adoption Atty and the American Academey of Assited Reproduction Attys.  Amy Demma is a reproductive law attorney with the Law Offices of Amy Demma in East Hampton New York.  She is on the Advocacy and Legislative Committee for RESOLVE of New England, and is a member of the Legal Practitioners Group. of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.  Egg donation, donor egg, donor sperm, alternative family building, surrogacy, third party reproduction, infertility.

What should adoptive parents do in the first year home to encourage attachment?  Join our guest Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, founder and CEO of Center For Family Connections in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Dr. Pavao is a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and is a Clinical Member of the American Orthopsychiatric Association. She is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.  She says her most valuable credential is that she has experienced life as an adopted person and that she has great love and respect for both her birth and adoptive families. Creating attachment, bonding, adoption, adopting, adoptive parenting, nurturing, attachment parenting

How do US families living abroad adopt a baby from the US or adopt internationally while living outside of this country. Is it possible for non-US citizens to adopt a child from America?  Join our guest adoption attorneys Jim Thompson, with offices in  Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Irene Steffas with offices in Atlanta Georgia.

The monetary and emotional cost of infertility treatment makes many patients and doctors “try for twins”.  Is this safe? What can you do to maintain the odds of getting pregnant, but still reduce the odds of multiple births?  If you are pregnant with twins or triplets, what can you do to protect your babies.  Join our guest Dr. Mark Evans, Medical Director at Comprehensive Genetics in New York City, President of the Fetal Medicine Foundation of America, High Risk Obstetrician, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Risk of twins or triplets with in vitro fertilization (IVF). How to lessen the risk of multiple births with fertility treatment.

Significant savings may be had by going abroad for surrogacy, but significant problems may be had as well.  Fertility tourism is growing in popularity, but with third party reproduction intended parents must be very careful to make certain their child will be able to return to the US and have US citizenship. Join our guests: Carol Farrand, an attorney with the US Department of State in the Bureau of Consular Affairs,  Roberta Evantash, India Surrogacy Coordinator with Adoptions from the Heart; and Rudy Rupak , Founder and CEO of Planet Hospital.