Comments on: Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick Expecting Twin Daughters

By: Carrie Jo

Carrie Jo — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:39:22 +0000

Adoption is certainly not always the answer. Many agencies will not adopt to couples at their age unless they choose to adopt older or hard-to place children. Even when a child is placed with a family, the birth parents often have a long period of time to change their mind. It is extremely heart-breaking to have bonded with a child only to have it taken away through no fault of your own. It can take a very, very long time to even get placed with a child. Also, there are many who think adoption is amoral. It’s a very personal thing to go through and judging someone for how they grow their family is not a very nice thing to do.

I’m very happy for them and wish them all the best.

By: gianna

gianna — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:09:19 +0000

They have been married for so long, I often wonder why couple who want kids wait that long. It’s one thing if you don’t marry the right person until your late 30′s but different if you been with same person for so long. She had a hard time having james, so i’m surprised they didn’t get a roll on it much sooner. I wonder if they are using matthew’s sperm with sarah’s eggs or donor eggs. I guess when the babies are born, if they resemble sarah or not, you can tell, or maybe she will say it.

By: Autumn

Autumn — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:07:17 +0000

Congrats to them! When I read they were having twins, I wondered if it was a surrogate or if SJP was really pregnant with twins. Anyway I wish them well in the future with their daughters.

By: chowchowpug

chowchowpug — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:12:55 +0000

Congrats! I think Jame Wilkie will make a good big brother. I would love to see if she named her kids Ella Rose and Olivia Katherine. They are cute antique names like James. Matthew, Sarah Jessica, James, Ella, and Olivia, it’s so cute!

By: koala

koala — Tue, 05 May 2009 03:54:00 +0000

I think people are allowed to have opinions about surrogacy and IVF…I am glad people think about it. Their views may hurt your feelings but thats life really. The fact is lots of people don’t think IVF is a good thing or surrogacy. I have heard scientific friends of mine questioning how IVF eradicates the selection of the fittest entailed in the best sperm getting to the egg. I have also heard discussions re bonding and surrogacy. I think its important for such angles on ART to be discussed instead of blindly accepoting it because we can do it. Just the same way that our society should have real discussions about whether childcare for small babies for long periods is a good thing. Just beacuse these discussions may make us feel bad about decisions we have made as parents is no reason to stop having them, its the resaon we should keep having them.Because parenting is SO important. And maybe CBB is the only place that some people will be exposed to altrenative views. I am personally still making my mind up on all these issues but am glad to see discussion.

Congrats to SJP and family.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:55:05 +0000

Everyone was upset over what Krissatina said and I don’t disagree with them. What her attitude shows me is that she very clearly doesn’t understand what infertile couples have to go through in order to achieve the goal of being parents. Not everyone can adopt. That’s a fact. Some agencies will not consider a couple if their combined age is over 100 years old. Stupid, but true. Some couples just don’t have the means. And, what is wrong with wanting a biologically matched child? While adoption is ideal for some people, it isn’t for others and they just crave the biological connection. I don’t blame them.

She said it “spoils [her] happiness for them.” I’m sure they are losing sleep over it tonite, don’t you?

The hateful side of me thinks that the person who wrote that comment probably has oodles of children of her own and has never had to struggle to conceive. I know the people who I encounter who have issues with this topic never had to give their own fertility a second thought. Only those who have walked in another’s shoes can truly understand so I just let her comments go. She’s entitled to her opinion but I’m thankful that she is a minority voice, not majority.

By: CelebBabyLover

CelebBabyLover — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:43:30 +0000

momofone is correct. I read in article on PEOPLE’s website a couple of days ago in which a friend of Matt and SJP said that SJP was trying to get pregnant, but it “just wasn’t happening”.

By: Mattie'sMom

Mattie'sMom — Sat, 02 May 2009 16:00:14 +0000

@nosoupforyou: The fact that most parents of newborns are not in their 40′s, is due in part to choices (and societal expectations). In older generations in my family, it was very common for women to have their last child in their 40′s. Of my dad’s siblings, 5 of 7 had a child in their 40′s. Definitely no reproductive technologies involved!

@TraceyG: Even as an adoptive mom, I wouldn’t say that adoption is necesarily ‘natural’. It can, however, be a loving resolution to a difficult circumstance where bioparents can’t care for their child.

By: momofone

momofone — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:06:56 +0000

I think she’s using a surrogate because she could not get pregnant again, she supposedly had IVF the first time to conceive James so she probably had left over embryos that are being used noww. Either way, whether they are her eggs or donor eggs they are her babies. As has been said before on this site, SOME people can be very cold and unsupportive of ART and surrogates when they have absolutely no problem conceiving. This is very sad. I conceived my baby daughter naturally, but hemorrhaged after her birth and needed a hysterectomy to save my life. My sister will be my gestational surrogate when i decide to expand my family. It is my right to do so, as it is everyone else’s who decided to go this route. God bless surrogates!

By: ericka

ericka — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:38:02 +0000

My first reaction was CONGRATS TO THEM!

Then immediately it was …why a surrogate? They had James without a surrogate. She’s not that old…