The New York Times reporter Stephanie Saul examines non-traditional paths to pregnancy and childbirth in her three-part series, '21st Century Babies.' The first story, "The Gift of Life and Its Price," looked at the risks and societal costs of twins conceived through fertility treatments, focusing on several families who had twins. The second story, "Grievous Choice on Risky Path to Parenthood" looked at intrauterine insemination with ovarian stimulating drugs, the major cause of large multiple births, and the risks associated with stimulated IUI cycles. "Building a Baby with Few Ground Rules," the third story in the series, looked at gestational surrogacy, and particularly the growing practice of building babies from scratch – using egg donors, sperm donors and gestational surrogates – as an alternative to adoption.
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