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Assisted Reproduction: The Complete Guide to Having a Baby with the Help of a Third Party

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Was helpful. I was looking more for a book that gave me specifics on writing up or negotiating a contract with a surrogate.

A terrific resource for those dealing with infertility. However, for those merely looking for alternative reproduction resources, this bood delves a little too much into specifics relating to infertility both emotional struggles and medical difficulties.

I was very disappointed with this book. It told me little I did not already know about egg donation and it should come with a disclaimer stating that unless you are very, very wealthy, surrogacy is not for you. It focuses so much on surragacy that I think a better title for it would be "Reproductive options for the very well-to-do."
There are better books out there focusing strictly on egg/sperm donation. I would recommend these instead, unless these technologies are not an option for you and you have the $35,000 to $100,000 per pregnancy (does not state whether these costs are limited to pregnancies that result in live births) that a surrogate pregnancy apparently requires.
There are some oblique references to the possiblity that insurance may pay a portion of the surrogates costs (yeah, right! I'm sure that's a small minority of insurance policies, though the author does not say) and a portion of your costs (This confuses me. You are not undergoing a medical procedure. Why would *your* insurance pay any of the costs?), but there is nothing concrete about how one would go about getting any portion of these monies reimbursed. All the author does is suggest that you and the attorney you hire read the insurance policy (whose policy? the surrogate's?) very carefully.