If you’re part of the 7.3 million people in the US struggling to have a baby, you will find tonight’s “My Future Baby: Breakthroughs in Modern Fertility” mandatory viewing (this show appears only on Ch. 21’s digital channel (Ch. 164 on Time Warner Cable).
Of course, you may know all of your options by now, but it will still be fascinating to see and understand what other pre-parents have gone through once natural conception was declared to be off the table.
Featuring Dr. John Jain of the Santa Monica Fertility Center, as well as other fertility specialists, the special takes us through all the various options available today from now-commonplace in-vitro fertilization, sperm and egg donations to surrogacy and other methods that are not as common.
We follow several patients — one for whom there is no reason for infertility, a woman for whom age is an issue, a woman who carries the gene for breast and cervical cancer, and a lesbian and a gay couple — who all want to have a baby using at least one partner’s sperm or eggs.
You will learn the costs, the risks and the chances for success associated with each procedure, as well as see, through both computer animation and actual footage, how the procedures work — or don’t.
The special is fascinating — whether you want kids, have kids or have been told you can’t have kids.