FFS re. Hilaria & Alec Baldwin and normalisation of surrogacy

Time and again when I hear about these surrogacy cases I am reminded that you are not supposed to separate puppies from their mothers for at least 10 weeks which is a damn sight more development time for dogs than for humans.

Yet human babies sold under surrogacy get whisked away from their mothers almost instantaneously and its not seen as the cruel abuse it is.

This is so odd. Did she have any of the others by a surrogate? Did the doctor get the implantation time wrong?

This is so sad, seems like having babies is some kind of hobby .I agree that she must have some serious problems in wanting to have one child after another and documenting it all on SM. Why does he actually agree to all of this is my question?

She seems absolutely nuts.
The fake being Spanish was just wild and now this seems like they are trying to get people to forget about that by being even more crazy!!!

What a depressing story. Babies as commodities to be purchased by the wealthy.

How many children does he have? I think this makes 7?

Hilary has made a living out of having babies, pretending to be Spanish and doing yoga pose for social media, is that right?

Alec Baldwin is 62

I can't get past anyone purposefully ordering a baby knowing it'll be torn away from its mother at birth, and knowing damn well that could cause attachment issues for their whole life, issues which they might not even be able to ever articulate let alone resolve.

The current commodification of women and children is obscene. They treat it like some kind of hobby.

Hes not 70!

We watched a US documentary on surrogacy a while ago, and I was really really angry and upset by it.

The thought of buying a baby is so far from any moral compass.

As for Hilary Baldwin, she's got some serious mental health issues and I feel horribly sorry for those poor kids.

I wonder if AB's age might be a factor in their thinking.

I suspect that when we see these things with celebrities wealth is just a huge factor in so many ways. Another couple might think, maybe new babies at 70 could be unwise? But it's not really an issue financially for them.

There was a blind gossip about this yesterday. I'd been wondering who it was.

I think this will increasingly become the norm. 'Too posh to push' will be replaced by 'too important to take the risk of gestating your own child'.

Someone will probably come up with something snappier. Too busy to bump?

Incidentally, I have had a c section. I have nothing against them before anyone jumps on me.

Paying other women to take the risks of pregnancy and deliberately subjecting your own child to trauma is I suspect going to come back to bite them on the arse one day.

I think she would have had to have frozen her eggs a fair while before the pregnancy, after the miscarriage main 2019? Not that I believe this Richardson-Mook character.

"Richardson-Mook pointed out that this is not an easy decision for parents and that it takes parents on average about 50 months to work through the surrogacy process.
If this was the case for Hilaria and Alec, then they would have delved into surrogacy long before she became pregnant with Eduardo."

https://pagesix.com/2021/03/02/hilaria-baldwin-follows-surrogacy-agency-on-ig-after-baby-no-6/?fbclid=IwAR1fqlkmAUp1y6XyzY1UaWYSqc71uVS8RxXgIVVrfuW5rkEEHi34J02wE

But when it becomes the go-to of extremely wealthy families who already have numerous children (cf Kim Kardashian, Robbie Williams et al), then its exploitative and transactional nature is exposed.

Agree with this; it's sick.

She can barely have had time to harvest her eggs in between her pregnancies and miscarriage. It’s all really weird.

In a way I find it more worrying when a couple without fertility issues (they've had 5 babies) chooses to find a surrogate mother to nourish and grow a child for them. I guess it is because they can pay and they probably didn't consider there was an issues of ethics.

I wonder why she announced this. If I were her I would have stayed inside for a while longer, come off all sm. Waited until nobody was bothering to count the months between her children's ages.

The rumour mill says that Hilaria suffered a loss before she became pregnant with their 5th, so when they decided to try again they used the surrogacy option as a backup.

Which would make a kind of sense apart from the timing. If that was the case you would expect the babies to be born only a couple of weeks apart, or the surrogate to give birth first. A 5-month gap is just weird.

As if buying babies and using women as incubators isn't bad enough......

Oh its definitely because they wanted a girl.

All the A listers are at it. Its like they want the experience of carrying their own but dont want to do it for the next one like SJP. At least Lucy Liu was honest and said she didnt know when she would beable to take a break from working 😮

Surely theres no way these people have more fertility issues than us normal everyday folk. And all the rich gay couples its like a god given right for them. people.com/parents/celebrities-who-have-used-surrogates/?slide=000c3663-430c-4072-9112-8f0d1141a4be#000c3663-430c-4072-9112-8f0d1141a4be