This document discusses various assisted reproductive technologies and unusual pregnancies and births. It describes how the first "test tube baby" was born in 1978 and now approximately 48,000 women in the US give birth annually from lab-conceived pregnancies. It also notes that a 2008 Spanish woman who lied about her age and had twins at 69 died leaving behind her 2-year-old twins. The document also mentions the oldest mothers and surrogates on record, as well as the youngest mother and earliest surviving preterm babies.

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