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The person giving birth is called the birth mother or gestational carrier or surrogate mother or surrogate. The person(s) taking custody is/are called the commissioning parent(s) or intended parent(s). [1] The biological mother may be the surrogate or the intended parent or neither. Surrogate mothers are usually introduced to intended parent(s ...
In a 'conventional surrogacy', a surrogate agrees to be inseminated with the sperm of the male partner of the 'commissioning' couple, or with the sperm of one of the male partners in a same-sex relationship, or with sperm provided by a sperm donor. The surrogate is inseminated, conceives, and hands over the baby at the completion of the pregnancy.
Another study, published in Human Reproduction, looked at 20 surrogate mothers 10 years after the process, finding they “scored within the normal range for self-esteem and did not show signs of ...
The New Jersey court's finding that no contract can alter the legal position of a woman who bears a child as that child's mother seemed to settle the question of the status of surrogacy contracts in America, at least until technological advances permitting gestational surrogacy—in which a woman can bear and give birth to a child to whom she ...
In gestational surrogacy, the surrogate has no genetic link to the baby, as an embryo is created using an egg from the intended mother (in this case, Keough) or, if necessary, an egg donor ...
Only altruistic surrogacy is allowed in the country. The future parents pay the surrogate mother only the expenses related to the pregnancy. For example, compensation for food, clothing, medical procedures, and transportation. Usually, parents find a surrogate mother through private contacts or through forums on the Internet.
Without knowing much about the process of surrogacy, Westerfield offered to be a gestational carrier for the cousin's embryo. The Westfield family: Emily, her husband Max, their daughter Mckenna ...