Surrogacy - Main Page With surrogacy, a woman carries and
delivers a child for another couple or person. It is an
arrangement that is used in cases where the intended mother has
medical issues which may make the pregnancy and/or delivery
impossible or risky. It is also used by gay men who wish to have
children with a biological connection, or become parents through
a means other than adoption. Types of surrogacy With this
traditional surrogacy, the surrogate is inseminated with the
intended father's sperm via artificial insemination, typically
in a doctor's office. The surrogate's egg is then fertilized by
the sperm to create an embryo which she will carry to term. The
surrogate is the genetic mother of the child, and is also the
birth-mother. With this gestational surrogacy, the intended
parents go through an IVF procedure to create an embryo, which
is then transferred and implanted in the surrogate mother's
uterus. The surrogate, also called the gestational carrier, is
the birth-mother, but has no genetic r