Joan Lunden Quotes

We've gotten probably 40 women who have offered to be surrogates.

We chose to use a surrogate as the way we wanted to start our family, particularly as I was traveling across the globe on a stressful schedule to get stores open.

My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate.

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.

For people who have fertility issues - and certainly gay men have fertility issues - there's several options for having a child and surrogacy was one of them.

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.

To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.

We're not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and Michael Jacksons of the world, but rather assisting infertile couples that deserve the right to have a biological child to have one.

It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

People who are infertile will be able to have their own genetic children. So may same sex couples, since it may well be possible to make eggs from a man's skin cells or sperm from a woman's.

A lot of people have been asking me questions about IVF and surrogacy, and I'm glad that I can be a mouthpiece to that.

It took three years from talking about it, to meeting with Wendie Wilson-Miller from 'Gifted Journeys' Surrogacy, to finding the right doctor, to doing the egg retrieval and finding the right surrogate.

Those that don't know that I've gone through so many IVF treatments, and I've gone through six cycles to get this child, that's on its way via surrogate, biological child - and it's been great.

Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

My motivation is my desire to help people. If people want to have children and cannot in the normal way, and I can do something about it, then I will do so.

I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.

Knock on wood, but I think we hit the gestational carrier lottery!

It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species.

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.

I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.

There's a lot of technology out there to help people have children in different ways, and later in life, for better or worse.

Not only am I having a girl, but I picked the girl from her little embryo.

I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that this is somehow a stranger who is carrying your child. And this is absolutely not true. Your surrogate becomes one of your best friends and a member of your family.

Remarkable technological and medical advances allowed me to be a mom. But it is expensive and not always a viable or effective option.