Gestational Surrogacy has no heritable relation to the child between the Surrogate Mother and the child; rather, the egg is produced by the Intended Mother or an Egg Donor.A Traditional Surrogate is however, hereditarily related to the child and is in essence both the Egg Donor and the Surrogate Mother.The Traditional Surrogate egg is fertilized with the Father's or Donor's sperm monthly at ovulation stages until pregnancy occurs.
Gestational surrogacy is the furthermost collective choice amongst Intended Parents; precisely because Intended Parents who choose an egg donor with Gestational Surrogacy encourage a considerably superior number of egg donors to select from.
How is gestational surrogacy performed?
1. An appropriate surrogate is chosen and thoroughly screened.
2. Consents are signed by all parties.This is an important step in surrogacy cases.All potential issues need to be carefully clarified, put in writing and signed.
3. The patient is stimulated for IVF with medications to develop multiple eggs.
4. The surrogate is placed on medications that suppress her own menstrual cycle and stimulate development of a receptive uterine lining.
5. When the patient's follicles are mature, an egg retrieval procedure is performed to remove eggs from her ovaries.
6. The eggs are fertilized in the laboratory with her partner's sperm.
7. The embryos develop in the laboratory for 2-5 days.
8. Then, an embryo transfer procedure is done which places the embryos in the surrogate mother's uterus where they will hopefully implant.
9. The surrogate delivers the baby.
10. The baby goes home from the hospital with the "genetic parents".
