It's Perfectly Normal (The Family Library) by Robie H. Harris

Author:Robie H. Harris
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Candlewick
Published: 2014-09-08T15:00:00+00:00

her eggs removed by a doctor

husband or partner, in a small

joined together to make that

before she takes medication.

dish in a medical laboratory —

baby. Or the baby is the child

Her eggs are then frozen and

where the egg and the sperm

of and goes home with the two

stored, and if she chooses, used

can meet and grow into an

women, or the two men, or the

later to conceive a baby by

embryo. That embryo is then

single woman, or the single

in vitro fertilization. A healthy

implanted in another woman’s

man who has chosen to have

female who wants to wait until

uterus, where it grows into a

a surrogate pregnancy as their

she is older to have a baby may

baby. This woman is called

way to have a baby.

also have her eggs frozen to be

a surrogate. Another kind of

There are people who are

used, if she chooses, at a later

surrogate pregnancy happens

not able to conceive a baby

date to conceive a baby by

when the egg that joins with

at all — by sexual intercourse,

in vitro fertilization.

the donated sperm is the

by in vitro fertilization, or by

Some women who are not

surrogate’s egg.

artificial insemination. Or they

able to conceive a baby may

Legal documents are made

do not choose to have a surro-

choose to have a surrogate

and signed before either of

gate pregnancy. But they can

pregnancy. One kind of surro-

these processes start, so that

start a family by adopting a

gate pregnancy happens when

when that baby is born, the

baby or child.

a woman has an egg removed

baby goes home with and is

Adoption means that a family

from her uterus by a doctor, and

the child of the woman and

will bring another family’s baby

placed with a sperm from a male,

man whose egg, or whose

or child into their family and

who may or may not be her

surrogate’s egg, and sperm first

raise that child as their very own.

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