Powerpoint about Amazing births from my Human Sexuality class.

1. Amazing Births
Instructor: Jana Tiefenwerth
PSY 153 Human Sexuality

2. Reproductive Alternatives:
 First test tube baby born in 1978
 In U.S., 48,000 women each year deliver
babies that began in a laboratory
 Approximately 70,000 babies are born from
sperm donor pregnancies each year in the
U.S., mainly to single women and lesbians
(by artificial insemination)

3. Assisted Reproductive
Technologies
 Are expensive
 Are controversial and pose ethical questions
 One IVF procedure costs $12,000 to $14,000,
and more than one attempt is often needed
 Since multiple embryos are implanted during
IVF, the twin birth rate rose by 70% from
1980 to 2004, and triplet-or-more increased by
380% during the same period.

4. Are assisted reproductive
technologies …
 Pushing the limit?
 Unethical?
Or…
 Are they a welcome miracle for those
unable to conceive naturally???

5. OCTOMOM caused
international media frenzy!
 Gave birth to octuplets
in January 2009
 Already had 6 children
from 6 pregnancies
through IVF
 Single mom, no job
 Criticized for being
selfish and irresponsible Nadya Suleman

6. Assisted Reproductive Technologies-
Oldest Mother in Spain
Maria del Carmen Bousada
 Women past menopause
are becoming pregnant
 (Almost) 67 year old
from Spain;
oldest mother
In Spain of twin boys;
Used IVF- with
donated sperm & ova
Point to Ponder: Should elderly parents who
may die before their children reach
adulthood be denied the use of ART?

7. Update
 MADRID (July 15) -- A Spanish woman
who deceived a U.S. fertility clinic
about her age and become the oldest
woman to give birth has died at 69,
leaving behind 2-year-old twins,
newspapers reported Wednesday.
Maria del Carmen Bousada gave birth in December 2006 after
telling a clinic in Los Angeles that she was 55, the facility's
maximum age for single women receiving in-vitro
fertilization. Guinness World Records said the 66-year-old
was the oldest on record to give birth and the case ignited
fierce debate over how much responsibility fertility clinics
have over their patients.

8. At age 62…
 …Janise Wulf
gave birth to
her 12th child
in Redding,
Calif., February,
2006.
 At the time, she
also had 20
grandchildren
and three great-
grandchildren.

9. Mother, 70
Father, 77
 A 70-year-old woman who has
two children and five
grandchildren has given birth
to twins, making her the
World's Oldest Mother
 Omkari Panwar delivered
twins, a boy and a girl, by
Caesarean section, June 2008
 For the couple, the desire to
have a son was most
important because they
wanted to carry on the family
name
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1031722/Worlds-oldest-mother-gives-birth-twins-70.html

10. Gave Birth To Her Own
Grandchildren At Age 51…
 Rosinete Palmeira
Serrao, center, gave
birth to her own twin
grandchildren in
Brazil in September
2007.
 She was a surrogate
for her daughter,
Claudia Michelle, left.

11. Gave Birth To Her Own
Grandchildren At Age 56…
 Jaci Dalenberg gave
birth to triplets on
October 11, 2008.
 She carried the babies
as a surrogate for her
daughter, Kim Coseno,
who was unable to have
children.
 Jaci is believed to be
the world's oldest
surrogate mother.

12. With Advanced Medicine…
 Babies are surviving with less time in
the womb

13. Tamara Dixon
 Shown healthy at 4 months old in
August 2007
 Weighed only 11 ounces when she
was born in Trenton, N.J.

14. First baby known to survive after a
gestation period of fewer than 23 weeks
 9 1/2 inches long
and weighing less
than 10 ounces;
doctors say spent
less time in the
womb than any
other surviving
infant.
 Amillia Sonja Taylor
was born October
24, 2006, at 21
weeks and six days
after conception.
Full-term births are
37 to 40 weeks.

15. Even more unbelievable…

16. Youngest Mom
 Gave birth at age
5 ½ years of age
 Had precocious
puberty
http://www.incrediblebirths.com/Worlds-Youngest-Mother.html

17. Pregnant Man?
 2008, Thomas Beatie, legally a man
(aka: Tracy), a transsexual male,
gave birth in July 2008 to a healthy
baby girl
 Expecting 2nd child June, 2009
 Had breasts surgically removed, had
been taking male hormones, but had
not altered his female reproductive
organs yet.
http://abcnews.go.cm/Health/Story?id=6244878&page=1

18. References:
 Crooks & Baur (2011).Our Sexuality,
11th edition.
 Photos taken from Google.com