When a couple of prospective intended parents only begins to talk about surrogacy as about a chance to have a baby, they may become overwhelmed by the wealth of media coverage about awful surrogacy results, which took place in the past. The Mass Media produces an image of surrogacy as of a very risky venture, with quite frequent uncertain custody outcomes, although there have occurred more then 35000 surrogacies, which ended up by intended parents taking their planned and expected babies home. By now there have been only 15 cases, when a surrogate mother was not able or did not want to give her baby to the intended parents. There are only four reported cases, in which a surrogate mother has retain full custody of the baby she carried, and it happened purely because of the high level of unenforceability of the surrogacy contracts. There is one known case, in which a surrogate mother carried twins, but the intended parents wanted to take only one of the babies, though they both were delivered in term and both were healthy. So, the women took the second baby, and she went to court, and managed to gain the full custody of the second child. In about fifty cases, in which people, who had been going to become intended parents, did not with to take the babies they helped create from the women, who carried them. All these babies were rejected by their intended parents, because of the unwanted gender, unwanted multiples, because they were did not satisfy these people visually, or babies might have some disabilities, etc. There were also cases, in which the intended parents got unexpectedly pregnant on their own, during the surrogate pregnancy, of the intended parents changed their minds about wishing to become parents already after the arrangement was signed up. And it is an interesting fact, but almost in all of the above mentioned situations the women, who were considered to be a surrogate mother ended up keeping and loving the baby she delivered.
Thanks to modern reproductive technologies achievements, there exist now two types of surrogacy, which are quite different from each other. These types are called the Traditional Surrogacy and the Gestational Surrogacy. In the process of the Traditional Surrogacy the egg is donated from the surrogate mother, and the sperm may be taken either from the intended father, or from a donor. Then the procedure of artificial insemination takes place, and the egg is placed into the surrogate mother’s uterus. This operation may be conducted either at home, or in a clinic. In Gestational Surrogacy live embryos, which may be the produced from the surrogate mother’s egg and the intended father’s sperm, or both egg and sperm may be taken from donors, are placed into the surrogate mother’s uterus. The Gestational Surrogacy procedure may be more complicated than the Traditional one; it also involves more participants and many medical operations of egg attaining, embryos’ creation and their implantation into the surrogate mother’s womb. The very process of the Gestational Surrogacy includes 5 steps. These steps are the following: 1. The Egg Production, 2. The Uterus Preparing, 3. The Egg Retrieval, 4. The Embryo Transfer, 5. The Pregnancy Testing.
There are several possible types of relationships between women, who become surrogate mothers and intended parents. Some surrogacy arrangements end up with close friendship, which may last long, or cease right after a baby has been delivered between the surrogate mother and her family and the intended parents and their family. Many surrogate mothers want to be in friendly relations with the people for whom they carry a baby. Sometimes this kind of friendship may last after the birth, but it usually gets changed, as despite all previous intensions, contact and friendship may become weaker as the time goes by. But some surrogate mothers and intended parental couples may not even meet each other and they ever hardly hear about one another.
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