As news that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick announced the birth of their twin girls, talk around my friends and I went to the issue of using surrogates. Parker could not carry a child to term and they had the means to use a surrogate. Would you use one in the same situation?

I have to say (being in a similar situation – oh, except for being rich that is!) that I would. And what a gift it would be to have someone give you the opportunity to be a parent with your own biological child. …read more

I just read this crazy article on CNN.com about how all our medicines are in the public water supply. I guess we pee them out and then drink them again. Could this explain the increase in infertility and even precocious puberty? Inadvertant drinking of birth control and hormone treatments? And while researchers do not yet understand the exact risks from decades of persistent exposure to random combinations of low levels of pharmaceuticals, recent studies — which have gone virtually unnoticed by the general public — have found alarming effects on human cells and wildlife, states the article.The federal government doesn’t require any testing and hasn’t …read more