Surrogate Pregnancy

Surrogate Pregnancy?

Question: I truly enjoy being pregnant and giving birth, but am not ready to add any more children to my family. I have always been interested in being a surrogate but don't know where to start. How do I go about becoming a surrogate? Where can I find a family?

Answer: Being a surrogate is a very special gift and very unselfish, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. There are alot of different places that work with surrogates and families. Here is just one http://www.surrogacyonline.com/ you can google Surrogacy and come up with a lot of agencies that match potential parents and surrogate moms.

surrogate pregnancy?

Question: is it possible to be a surrogate for a couple after the woman of the couple has entered premature menopause? She was never able to concieve and they adopted four children. Using her eggs and his sperm, would doctors be able to impregnate a surrogate?

Answer: please consider the needs of the future child. let me leave with you something a friend told me: Surrogacy is NEVER in the best interests of the person who is created in these circumstances. How can it be anything other than damaging for a newborn baby to be separated after birth from the only person it knows..it's mother?!? Nature does not intend that a child be taken from its mother within minutes, hours, days or weeks of its birth. This is the critical time of "bonding"; the very foundation-stone of physical and emotional wellbeing in the life of the human child. Sometimes, through death, abandonment (or adoption)....a child loses its mother. Hopefully its father is able to protect and nurture it...with support from family and friends. A newborn child, (whose mother has died or disappeared), is vulnerable and grieving for its profound loss. I would recommend that you read Nancy Verrier's work "The Primal Wound" for a deeper understanding of the effects of separation on mother and baby. It is becoming increasingly acceptable to "create" a child through IVF surrogacy arrangements. This requires two women to contribute/participate in the child's conception through ova donation and gestational surrogacy. Perhaps people who embark on this process believe that a child will not experience loss because neither the genetic nor gestational mother are "wholly" connected to the child. I think that a child created in these circumstances will feel a very deep sense of loss that it does not have a "whole" mother in its life. Do read Nancy Verrier......she will illuminate your way as you ponder these profoundly important issues. remember...there is always adoption...

Who is the biological mother in the case of a surrogate pregnancy?

Question: I am curious about who the sleep4you.com/sleep.php/84/baby.html'>baby's biological mother is in the case of a surrogate pregnancy? Or does it work both ways--does the couple provide both the egg and the sperm of themselves or does the husband typically provide his sperm and the surrogate's egg is used?

Answer: The biological mother is whomever the egg was from. Sometimes it's the surrogate mother, sometimes it's an anonymous donor, and sometimes it is the mother that will take over guardianship/assume the responsibilities of raising the child. The same is true with whom the biological father is. It could be his or it could be a donor's.