There exist several areas of qualification, which should be taken into consideration. The couple of future Intended Parents should evaluate the motivation of their potential Surrogate Mother, her support system, her past and present health, her physical ability to achieve a pregnancy, her social history, as well as her emotional and psychological outlook and stability.
There are a lot of different reasons, which can become a motive for the Surrogate Mother to help some infertile couple to build its family; however, there are only two main categories, all reasons are divided into: altruism – the wish to do something good for someone and some kind of compensation. There is no doubt, that it would be perfect if every Surrogate Mother would desire to help some people only out of her goodness with no compensation, still this is not always the case. Other than relatives or close friends, most potential Surrogate Mothers expect to receive compensation for the service they make for the Intended Parents. The majority of these women realize that their pregnancy may tangibly affect their lives, as well as the lives of their family members in positive and negative ways.
Any informed Surrogate Mother will realize that she will have to interrupt her family and work schedules, because she will attend medical appointments and undergo different kinds of fertility drugs protocols, as well as implantation procedures, and that it can be several times. A woman like this will also be aware that she will be the subject to all possible health risks, limitations, feeling of discomfort and pain of pregnancy and delivery processes. Moreover, in case if the implantation ends up with a pregnancy with twins, triplets or other higher order multiples, she may also be required to stay on bed rest, and then she will become completely unavailable for her family members and employer. There is no doubt, that the predicable time demands and real health risks of a surrogacy do justify some compensation, and many Surrogate Mothers expect to receive reasonable payment for what they do.
In accordance with the opinion of most psychologists and of other professionals, who worked with and were able to evaluate Surrogate Mothers, the most reliable Surrogate Mothers are woman, who are motivated not only by compensation, but by altruism as well, and altruism is given the preferred emphasis. In case if the potential Surrogate Mother seems to be a poor or greedy woman, and if it becomes clear than her only motive is financial compensation, then the chances that she would manipulate the pregnancy and ultimate all possible custodial issues, perhaps, even by threatening to keep the child / children after she or he / they has / have arrived, are very high. All these manipulations and threatens will be done only to receive maximum money. However, it is also important that the Surrogate Mother would be meaningfully motivated to do something good for someone, and not just earn money.
However, even when the Surrogate Mother is doing everything out of pure altruism, it is possible that she will experience some sense of postpartum deprivation, when she delivers the baby / babies and gives the child / children to the couple of the Intended Parents. In this case the receiving of some adequate financial compensation for the benefit of her own family would give this woman positive, on which she will be able to focus and it will also help her to reduce the risk that she will respond do any possible twinge of deprivation by having a desire to keep the child / children she delivered. This is why the best motivation in every potential Surrogate Mother may be considered a strong sense of altruism, which is combined with a reasonable desire to receive financial compensation.
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