Surrogacy

Introducing to ‘With Woman’ is Surrogacy.

Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. This woman, the surrogate mother, may be the child’s genetic mother (called traditional surrogacy), or she may be biologically unrelated to the child (called gestational surrogacy).

If the surrogate receives compensation beyond the reimbursement of medical and other reasonable expenses, the arrangement is called commercial surrogacy, otherwise it is often referred to as altruistic surrogacy.

In a traditional surrogacy the child may be conceived via home artificial insemination using fresh or frozen sperm or impregnated via IUI (intrauterine insemination), or ICI (intracervical insemination) performed at a health clinic. Because gestational surrogacy requires the implantation of a previously created embryo, that process always takes place in a clinical setting.

The intended parents, sometimes called the social parents, may arrange a surrogate pregnancy because of homosexuality, female infertility, or other medical issues which make pregnancy or delivery impossible, risky or otherwise undesirable. The intended parent may also be a single man or woman wishing to have his/her own biological child. Although the idea of vanity surrogacy is a common trope in popular culture and anti-surrogacy arguments, there is little or no data showing that women choose surrogacy for reasons of aesthetics or convenience.

At ‘With Woman’ we can assist and advice you on the process of surrogacy.

Price £40 consultation

For more help please follow this link to Childlessness Overcome Through Surrogacy (COTS)