Getting pregnant and carrying the pregnancy successfully to delivery is not easy. Your inability to conceive despite regular sexual intercourse will push you to opt for several other alternatives to having a child. Fortunately, gestational surrogacy is an option if you cannot carry a pregnancy but can have a biological child. Unlike the traditional type of surrogacy when your child has no blood relations with the carrier, gestational surrogacy uses your own egg and/or sperm. Are you thinking of this type of surrogacy as your conception option? If so, then Newport Beach gestational surrogacy specialists are the experts you should contact.
What are the benefits of gestational surrogacy?
- Gestational surrogacy allows you and your partner to retain a genetic link to your child.
- Besides helping out an infertile couple, gestational surrogacy allows single parents and LGBT community members to have complete families.
- This type of surrogacy also allows you to have your child if you cannot safely carry your pregnancy to term and prefer your baby be biologically yours, and not have a biological relationship with the carrier. Â
- The process is likely to create a life-long fulfilling friendship between you and your surrogate.
- Gestational surrogacy is not a complicated form of legal surrogacy. Since the gestational carrier has no biological relations to the child, she will never claim to be genetically related to your baby.  Â
What is the process of finding a surrogate?
Finding a perfect surrogate could be a challenging venture. Though you want to trust the stranger with your future child, you are not sure if you can fully hope she will not surprise you with unforeseen circumstances. You could be lucky if you have a relative or a friend who offers to be your surrogate. Having a familiar person carry your child saves you money and makes the experience more personal.
However, if you cannot get a friend or relative to deliver your baby, you could go to a gestational carrier agency and request a surrogate. After your selection, your surrogate will go through a series of medical and psychological examinations. Though the individual will not require legal criteria, she should:
- ·Be healthy
- Have few C-sections
- Have had less than five vaginal births
- Age between 21-45years
- Have had at least a single successful full-term pregnancy
- Lives in a supportive environment
What should you expect during the surrogacy procedure?
Once you have identified your match, your doctor will request an appointment with you and the surrogate for him to start the process. Using IVF, your doctor will create an embryo and transfer it to the carrier’s uterus using any of the following options:
- A donor sperm fertilizes your egg.
- Your partner’s sperms fertilize your eggs.
- Your partner’s sperm fertilizes a donor egg.
In all these instances, one or both parents has a biological link to the unborn child.
As a future parent, your doctor will also request particular blood tests and physical examinations. The examination is crucial for your doctor to check out for the possible illnesses you are likely to pass on to your carrier. After the procedure, the surrogate will carry the pregnancy like any other until delivery. The biological parents then welcome the child after birth and take full responsibility for him or her.
Gestational surrogacy is rewarding and stirs your hopes of expanding your family. The procedure gives you the fun and joy of raising your biological child despite the reproduction challenges you have as a couple.
