Womb 4 Rent

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

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What do you get for the woman who has everything except a baby? Why, a gestational carrier, of course!

According to the NY Post's Page Six, the new "get" in the city is not the perfect nanny, but the ultimate surrogate. Alex Kuczynski, a 40-year-old socialite, announced that she and ridiculously wealthy hubby, Charles Stevenson, were using the ol 'her egg+his sperm+another woman's uterus=baby and no stretch marks' trick. Not to be outdone, Vogue's Lauren Davis , 31, thinks that's a splendid idea and is shopping around for her womb to rent too.

We feel for women who experience fertility difficulties--some Moms here have experienced the pain and sadness for themselves. But if the Post, is right in reporting that they're doing it to avoid stretch marks, does that seem a bit too far? Someone better tell them that baby vomit is good for the hair or they're in for a very long childhood.

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I would rent my womb, I have 3 kids I don’t think I can get any more strechmarks, than what I have :D

- Sulehima G

Posted 02/05/08 10:13 PM

I really doubt that it’s just about stretch marks - at 40 the risk of Down’s Syndrome and other birth defects is very high.

- Carolyn Leber

Posted 02/06/08 10:36 AM

This little “news story” is SUCH an ignorant, flippant and insensitive comment on the pain that infertile couples experience. Yes, the issues with women putting off childbearing until later in their lives can include birth defect risk, anovulation (no eggs released), fragmented eggs, early menopause, and many other things. That’s assuming that the delay was due to career or other things taking precedence, but plenty of us out there are also infertile due to structural problems like uterine abnormalities, etc. Then there are the ones who have had cancer or other medical issues and either had hysterectomies or are advised by their doctors that it is life-threatening to become pregnant. I have had 7 miscarriages, including a late term one in the third trimester. I just simply can’t carry a child to term, period. Surrogacy was the ONLY chance my husband and I had left, and we’re thrilled to be expecting twins now. As for the “renting of the womb” it’s not exactly that straightforward. There is a lot involved, and it takes a very special woman to do this, and it takes a special and strong relationship between the surrogate and the “intended parents” as we’re called.

- Cynthia

Posted 02/06/08 11:57 AM

I think that is extremely selfish. If these women are that vein and into themselves I dont think they need a baby at all. It sounds to me like the baby would most likely be raised by a nanny anyway. Yes I do wish that I wouldnt have gotten stretch marks, saggy boobs, and cellulite, but carrying your own baby in your belly and feeling it grow and move is awsome. I would never pass up the opportunity to have that feeling for anything.

- melanie

Posted 02/06/08 06:28 PM