How surrogate pregnancy is achieved?

Surrogacy is a process where a lady carry genetically irrelevant baby in her womb. This process allows sterile, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender couples to establish their family by having a genetically relevant baby. Surrogate pregnancy can be achieved through in-vitro fertilization therapy. This treatment normally takes four to six weeks to become successful. Initially, fertility drug is given to the woman to produce quality eggs instead of one, as the successful treatment needs multiple eggs. The physicians use ultrasound therapy and blood test to determine whether the ova are ready for retrieval.

Once the eggs are ready for retrieval, doctors perform trans vaginal ultrasound therapy to locate the matured eggs in ovary. Once the matured eggs are located, a needle is inserted into ovaries to suck the ova. However, if trans vaginal ultrasound therapy fails to detect ova, laparoscopic surgery is performed. After retrieving ova, doctors examine each and every ovum and select the most potential ovum for a successful surrogate pregnancy. Physicians place eggs in the IVF cultural medium for insemination. Meanwhile, quality sperms is retrieved from the semen of intended father and then combined with the ovum stored in the incubator.

When the sperms are combined with ovum, the best swimmer fertilizes an egg within a matter of hours. Doctors visually confirm the fertilization once they see two pronuclei. After one week, zygote is developed in the laboratory, which is injected to the uterus of a surrogate in order to achieve pregnancy. A surrogate then carries the baby for nine months and handover the child to biological parents after delivery. 

Surrogate pregnancy and its important features

A surrogate pregnancy is nothing but an agreement pregnancy where the infant baby is transferred to intended parents.  Carrying the fetus in the womb up to safe delivery is the responsibility of surrogate mother and she will be prepared mentally to carry the task of delivering the baby.  Two types of surrogate pregnancy are followed normally when the couple wishes to have their child through this process.  One method is traditional surrogacy and another method is gestational surrogacy, and it always depends upon various factors that are related to the couple and medical requirements. 

However, in a traditional method, it is an agreement between a  person or couple with a proy mother.  In a gestation method, the mother will be impregnated via medical methods, by using a sperm from a father who is an intended father of a baby.  In another way the sperm may be donated by a sperm bank.  While the egg is used by a proxy mother in a traditional way, in gestational surrogacy, the egg and sperm both can be placed in the uterus through medical procedures.  In some other cases, embryo will be placed in the substitute.   In this case, the mother will protect the embryo and give rise to the baby after the term is completed whereas, she is not considered as a biological mother, since egg, sperm belong to the intended couple or it might from a fertility bank. 

Surrogate pregnancy takes place mainly due to the infertile condition prevailed in the intended mother.  There are other medical issues where proxy may become necessary to develop the baby.