How the surrogacy works?

A simple definition of a surrogacy is a lady accepts to become pregnant either through traditional or gestational process and hand over the baby to the childless couple after birth. It is a simple definition to understand the core view of surrogacy process. Couples who are not able to bear the child due to medical problem where all the ART process failed to show its results opt for surrogacy process. Couples who are seeking for the best surrogate mother need to understand that it is a very expensive process both in term of finance and emotions. In this blog, you come to know about different types of surrogacy and how it works.

Traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy are the two types of surrogacy. Most of the proxy agencies and doctors recommend gestational process rather than traditional. In traditional proxy process, a surrogate will become pregnant when the sperm of an intended father or a donor is injected to the uterus. The baby born through this process in genetically related to the surrogate and intended father or donor. Due to the psychological factors and the legal risks associated with this procedure, the agencies and doctors do not recommend traditional surrogacy.

In gestational procedure, the intended mother’s ova and intended father’s sperm is taken out. The ovum is fertilized by adding sperm in the laboratory. Doctors choose quality ovum and mix it with the best swimmers to form a healthy zygote. All these process are carried out in the laboratory. The resulting zygote is cultured in the lab for about six weeks. This zygote is later injected to the uterus of a proxy. The baby born through this process in genetically irrelevant to the surrogate where as the child is genetically related to the couples who are seeking child through this process.