What is surrogacy?
The definition of surrogacy is the act of one woman carrying a child that belongs to someone else.
When the baby is born, the woman carrying the baby will not parent the child; the intended parents who contracted the surrogacy arrangement will be the legal parent of the child.
A gestational surrogate mother is not the biological mother of the baby conceived.
The child is either the biological child of the intended mother, or of an egg donor and the intended father (or one of the intended fathers).
A gestational carrier will go through IVF, In-Vitro Fertilization, to become pregnant. This is where the intended mother's eggs, and the intended father’s sperm, are mixed in a laboratory to create viable embryos.
Then, one or more of these embryos are implanted into the surrogate's womb in order to become pregnant.
The intended mother or egg donor will need to go through an egg retrieval process, which will require her to be on medications as well.
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