One of the Traditional surrogacy disadvantages is considered to be the genetic link between the woman, who becomes a surrogate mother and the baby she carries. There are women, who are not able to relinquish their own babies after they have delivered. Some of such women do not feel comfortable with their children having siblings out and about in the world. Those people, who prefer Traditional surrogacy, usually describe what they feel on the matter as being similar to egg donation: although there is a genetic link, but it is less important than the link, which is present between the intended parents and their future baby.
Gestational surrogacy is much more complicated and expensive procedure. Each In Vitro Fertilization cycle costs up to several thousands of dollars. It also requires much more time, than traditional surrogacy process. If the IVF attempt has failed, there is usually a necessity to wait for months before the next attempt. And, besides everything, there is much more risk of miscarriage of the pregnancy, which has been achieved through the IVF procedure. But despite all its disadvantages, it offers the perspective intended parents a possibility to have a child, who would be genetically linked to at least one of them, as well as increased legal benefits for the surrogate mother and the intended parents as well. A woman, who becomes a surrogate mother for an infertile couple carries a baby, created from the intended mother’s eggs and the intended father’s sperm. Although it is not rarely, that the egg or sperm donor is necessary to provide his or her tissue. Donor’s help is needed, if any of the intended parents does not produce his own sperm or her own eggs. The egg gets fertilized with the sperm, and after it has developed into a fetus, it is transferred into the surrogate mother’s uterus with the help of a catheter. It is also possible to freeze the fetuses in order to transfer them later.
The very procedure of the embryos transferring is usually described by women, who have experienced surrogate motherhood already, as quite a quick and easy process; although the process of getting ready for that transferring and several weeks after the transferring takes place, require heavy medical intervention as a rule. Mostly there are several months of everyday injections, received by a surrogate mother. These injections include:
1. birth control pills and shots of hormones, which would control and suppress the gestational mother’s ovulatory cycle;
2. shots or skin patches of estrogen, which build the woman’s uterine lining (as there are other drugs, which prevent it);
3. after the transferring procedure has been conducted a surrogate mother receives daily injections of Progesterone up until her body catches up to the idea of being pregnant and until it becomes able to sustain the pregnancy on its own.
In case when the woman, who is going to become a surrogate mother, is transferred frozen embryos, it is possible that she would avoid some kind of suppression, which is necessary to use before the transfer. But no matter if these medications are delivered by injections, or in some alternate forms, all of them often have quite significant side effects, the woman, who becomes a surrogate mother is to live with. Among these possible complications are: hot flashes, mood changes, headaches, drowsiness, etc.
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