Matt & Sarah Plus 3

SPJ is a joke

The latest Hollywood craze.........."Rent-a-Womb"

I am shocked that there are other things going on besides MJ. That alone is news!

# 7-really, buttheads is a good name for YOU---POST YOUR PHOTO---so happy for SJP & family, lucky children....

is it just me or does their boy look like a little poof??? just like liz hurley's boy. both poofs. they'll probably get together!!!!!

SJP has stated that after her son was born they tried for some time to get preg. again. Not able to. So chose the surrogate way. The reason for twins in older women, it is hrder to get preg. but the older eggs are more likely to result in twins. Using IVF - if you are in your early 30s or younger the doc will usually insert 1 fertile egg. If you are older that 35, viable eggs usually decline. In which case the doc will insert 2 fertile eggs. IVF does not always take. Also I would bet that most of the hollywood actresses who had twins probably had IVF.

120. I don't know the reason they used a surrogate but a guess may be that SJP is over 40 and even if she is physically able to get pregnant, the risks of birth defects and other complications goes sky high as you age. I think she's what, 42 or 43? the risk of Down's Syndrome alone is 1 in 50 at that age--that's a pretty big risk. So maybe these more 'mature' female celebs are choosing to adopt or use surrogates to minimize that risk.
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You are correct. A woman's ENTIRE set of eggs are created at an early age, so they age with you. Eggs over age 40 have a higher risk of having chromosome disorders like Down's Syndrome. There is a new technology were younger women can extract their eggs and freeqe them, so if they decide to have kids when they are over age 40 it will be with the eggs of a 20 year-old.

SJP claimed that she had a lot of problems getting pregnant. SJP MIGHT have used the other woman's eggs to increae the chance of a healthy child that will survive the pregnancy. They are twins because to use a surrogate, you have to undergo IVF. During the IVF process, you end up with MULTIPLE fertilized eggs and you get to "select" how many fetuses you want to carry . OctoMom choose to use all her fertilized eggs, most other people like SJP undergo "reduction" (polite term for IVF abortion). That's why I always found it odd that people who are anti-abortion are fine with IVF. You end up "aborting" the other fertilized eggs by flushing them down the drain.

Anyway, congrats to both parents.

P.S. It's not just Hollywood people that use surrogates. It has been the hottest thing in the last 10 years for wives of Wallstreet and hedge fund bankers to use surrogate instead of "stretching" their own bodies or losing 9 months. It's pretty expensive but they could afford it with all those bonuses, before the economy crashed. Ask any Ob/gyn in NYC!

aww cute pics but i never understand y she didnt carrie them her self maybe the first delivery was too much for her or she probally didnt want to mess up her body very selfish i say very selfish girl just becuz you have money doen't exclude the fact that u didn't carrie your babbied some1 else did so yeah your the mom but hey you didnt carrie them someone else did so what you gain wait thats the joy of being a mommy i have 5 kids n i carried all of mines n i enjoyed each pregnancy

This is another case of "octomom" revisited. Have NONE of you noticed the ultra high percentage of twin births in the hollwood community? There simply MUST be chicanery involved for this many twin births. Far far higher than the twining percentage of the rest of America and the World as well. There has to be something phony going on. AND don't insult me that the twining percentage is because they are "EVERYTHING" and "THEY ARE THAT MUCH BETTER THAN THE REST OF US". Don't even try it.

What adorable twins, I felt a special connection with them because my name is Loretta Hodge and I am also a twin.
God Bless Them