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Grey's Anatomy Babies
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Grey's Anatomy's Best Baby Lines

Last night's "Sympathy For the Parents" episode of
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Grey's Anatomy Babies

Last night's "Sympathy For the Parents" episode of Grey's Anatomy turns the staff of Seattle Grace's focus on family. Every conversation involves something about parents and babies. Derek and Meredith discuss future McDreamys, Callie and Arizona confront their differences on wanting children, Bailey explains what it means to be a mother, and Alex's brother Aaron shows up and we get the long-awaited sneak peek of the hot doc's past. The hourlong show is packed with some of the best thoughts on families. Check out the most memorable!

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The Parent Effect Planting the Seed The Panic Breaking the Cycle No Maternal Instinct The Best Time to Have Children Being Your Own Mother, Not Your Mother
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Adoption: Parent Age Limit?
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Adoption: Parent Age Limit?

This post was submitted by Senorita in The Mommy Club group.
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This post was submitted by Senorita in The Mommy Club group.

I have been married for a couple of years and I am in my early thirties. And like any couple, we have talked about what we want children-wise. We have both decided that in a few years, we would have one child and then a couple years after that adopt another. I definitely want to experience being pregnant and having a baby but after talking to some of my friends many of them tell me it is hard to adopt children once you are in your late thirties! I was wondering if anyone had adopted a child and knew about any age limits for the parents. I don't want to miss out on an opportunity to help a child in need because the system thinks we are too old.

Talk about motherly things on your mind at The Mommy Club group over in the LilSugar Community.

Kevin and Scottie Consider Surrogacy on Brothers and Sisters
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Do Some Methods of Having a Baby Take More Consideration?

Having a baby is a big decision no matter how a couple goes about it, but do some methods take more thought than others?
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Having a baby is a big decision no matter how a couple goes about it, but do some methods take more thought than others? In last night's season premiere of Brothers & Sisters, Kevin and Scottie look into starting a family via surrogate and learn the best case scenario costs $137,000. While Kevin is ready to take out a credit line on their condo to get the process going, Scottie experiences cold feet reading hundreds of pages of paperwork. Surrogacy involves outside parties as well as legal contracts, so it's understandable that Scottie wants time to figure out if he's ready for fatherhood. Do you think certain methods of having a baby, be it surrogacy or adoption, take more serious consideration than nature's way?Photo courtesy of ABC

10 Reasons to Give Your Child a Sibling
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10 Reasons to Give Your Child a Sibling

You can pick your friends, but you can't choose your family, and maybe that's the greatest thing about having siblings.
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10 Reasons to Give Your Child a Sibling

You can pick your friends, but you can't choose your family, and maybe that's the greatest thing about having siblings. Whether you love them or not, they keep showing up at the dinner table and family functions. Having a sister, brother, or both forces a child to deal with peers on a daily basis. Sure, backseat wars have been waged and sibling rivalry exists, but the bonds that are formed wrestling each other over the television remote or laughing till your bellies ache are ones you can't replicate. As the second child of four who will soon give birth to my third baby, I believe that the greatest gift you can give your kid is another one — check out all my completely biased reasons why!

It's a life sentence with siblings. Siblings are the best partners in crime. Siblings are built-in playmates. Siblings work out their differences. Siblings teach each other a thing or two. Siblings understand what it's like . . . Sibling relationships teach you to share.
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What Type of Birth Control Do You Use?
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What Type of Birth Control Do You Use?

If you're not leaving the number of children you bear up to chance like Josh and Anna and Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, then most couples use some form of birth control to limit the number of their offspring or to space their babies out.
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If you're not leaving the number of children you bear up to chance like Josh and Anna and Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, then most couples use some form of birth control to limit the number of their offspring or to space their babies out. From the rhythm method to rubbers, there are lots of options. Which do you use?

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Multiples Multiply in NYC As Women Rush Into Motherhood
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Multiples Multiply in NYC As Women Rush Into Motherhood

Twins are sometimes the result of older mothers and IVF, but in the Big Apple, impatient women who don't have fertility issues are rushing to clinics when the old fashioned way of conceiving takes too long.
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Twins are sometimes the result of older mothers and IVF, but in the Big Apple, impatient women who don't have fertility issues are rushing to clinics when the old fashioned way of conceiving takes too long. In a jaw dropping New York Post piece, mamas spoke out about "twofers", twins for the price of one round of fertility treatments and cutting down on their number of pregnancies and ability to get their pre-baby bod back by aspiring (via the doctor's office) for multiples. Since 1980, twin rates in America have increased 70 percent. It said:

"I have my body back," says a Gramercy Park mom with 3-year-old twin girls (who asked to remain anonymous to protect her family's privacy). "And while my friends are bracing themselves for baby number two and all the sleep deprivation and chaos that comes with it, we are planning a family trip to Hawaii."

Do you appreciate these multitasking mamas take on motherhood?

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Tell Mommy: New Year, New Baby?
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Tell Mommy: New Year, New Baby?

The ball dropped, the fireworks shot off, and we welcomed 2009.
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The ball dropped, the fireworks shot off, and we welcomed 2009. Will yours involve a thin pink line? Most mamas love the idea of starting fresh with a new year of hopes and resolutions, but does your wish list for the next 12 months include plans to have a baby? Tell us if you'll be adding to your brood by getting pregnant, or hope to enter motherhood in 2009!

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Are Women Pressured to Air Their Plans For Offspring?
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Are Women Pressured to Air Their Plans For Offspring?

Celine Dion has four more frozen embryos, Jennifer Aniston "longs" for a baby and Beyonce is "terrified of having a child."
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Celine Dion has four more frozen embryos, Jennifer Aniston "longs" for a baby and Beyonce is "terrified of having a child." Women who haven't entered motherhood are talking about when they will or why they won't. Meanwhile moms are making headlines for their family expansion plans. Do you think women feel pressured to air their plans? If so, is it personal or societal?

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Tell Mommy: How Long Did It Take You to Get Pregnant?
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Tell Mommy: How Long Did It Take You to Get Pregnant?

Once a couple decides to make room for baby, they get to creating one.
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Once a couple decides to make room for baby, they get to creating one. Some potential mamas toss their pill packs or have their partners forgo condoms. Other wanna be parents rely on science and ovulation calculators.

Fifty-three percent of lilsugar readers said they had sex and waited for the plus sign, while thirty-five percent confessed that they mapped their conception plan out. Whether you winged it or plotted, how long did it take you to get pregnant?

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Pregnant Woman Faces Forced Abortion of Her Third Child
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Pregnant Woman Faces Forced Abortion of Her Third Child

In America, we have the freedom to reproduce at will, but in other countries that isn't the case.
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In America, we have the freedom to reproduce at will, but in other countries that isn't the case. An Uyghur woman who is more than six months pregnant with her third child is facing a forced abortion. Chinese authorities are holding her in a hospital because she is only permitted two offspring. One report said:

China's one-child-per-family policy applies mainly to majority Han Chinese but allows ethnic minorities, including Uyghurs, to have additional children, with peasants permitted to have three children and city-dwellers two.

But while Tursun is a peasant, her husband, Nurmemet Tohtasin, is from the city of Gulja [in Chinese, Yining] so their status is unclear. The couple live with their two children in Bulaq village, Dadamtu township, in Gulja.

The couple is also subject to steep governmental fines. Do you think it's fair for the government to regulate a person's reproductive rights?

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