Who is a surrogate?

Who is a surrogate?

When a lady agrees to deliver the biological baby of commissioning couples upon agreement by receiving a financial compensation, she is referred as surrogate. Normally, when couples learn that they are unable to have a biological baby due to their medical complexities, they search for a substitute lady through a recognized surrogate agency to own a biological baby. The agency speaks with the intended parents willing to own a baby through surrogates and match them with the proxy and provide necessary guidelines to start the process.

The potential commissioning couples and potential proxy mothers should understand the process before they enter into it. There are two types of surrogacy; traditional and gestational, which is also referred by the names altruistic, commercial; partial and full surrogacy. In traditional surrogacy, a surrogate mother is impregnated through artificial insemination (AI) process. It is a type of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) technique where the commissioning father sperm is taken by a clinical procedure and later injected to the substitute mother cervix during ovulation. In this way, the pregnancy is achieved through injecting the sperms of an intended father. A natural process of pregnancy is done artificially to impregnate a lady. The baby born though this process will be biologically connected to intended father a surrogate mother. As this effects the religious beliefs and traditional value, this type of surrogacy is banned completely.

The most common and legal form of surrogacy is gestational surrogacy type. In this process, the embryo created with the gametes of intended parents is injected into the uterus of a surrogate mother to achieve pregnancy. The surrogate mother cost varies according to many factors. Therefore, intended parents need to inquire about the things before entering into the process.