Explaining Surrogate Motherhood

Surrogacy is becoming more and more common in the world because of its possibilities for increasing the family when it is not naturally possible.

Surrogacy means an arrangement whereby a surrogate mother agrees to carry and give birth to a child for other people or a person.

Currently, there are two types of surrogacy – gestational and traditional.

In traditional surrogacy, egg of a surrogate mother is used for fertilization by intended father’s sperm, and pregnancy usually occurs through intrauterine insemination (IUI). In this method, the surrogate mother has a genetic link with the child.

In case of gestational surrogacy child has no genetic kinship with the carrying mother.

In gestational surrogacy, an embryo conceived by the method of in vitro fertilization (IVF) is transferred to the womb of a surrogate mother in laboratory conditions and using the eggs and sperm of the intended parents or donors.

Therefore, with this type of surrogate motherhood, there is no genetic connection between the child and the surrogate mother, thanks to this, legal registration is much easier and ethical issues do not arise.

People who have problems with infertility and who are not helped by treatment, women who due to medical or physiological problems cannot get pregnant and give birth to a child, same-sex couples and single people are those for whom surrogate motherhood is the only way to have their own child.

So, there are two types of surrogacy, traditional and gestational, and our agency provides only gestational surrogacy services.