gestational surrogacy

Borrowed pregnancy arrangement

Gestational surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman carries and delivers a baby conceived from another person's egg—she has no genetic connection to the child.

This distinguishes it from traditional surrogacy, where the surrogate provides the egg.

The gestational surrogate, or gestational carrier, undergoes embryo transfer via IVF: They chose gestational surrogacy after years of failed fertility treatments.

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fertility clinic · carrier · birth mother · fertility · implantation · contract · egg donor · clinic · trimester · due date · motherhood · baby · baby shower · uterus · conception · hormones · ultrasound · infertility

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biological connection to child

gestational surrogacynatural conception

Pregnancy achieved without fertility treatment

adoption · foster care

method of family formation

gestational surrogacynatural conception

Pregnancy achieved without fertility treatment

childlessness · foster parenting · step-parenting

reproductive assistance type

gestational surrogacynatural fertility

Unaided capacity for reproduction

Family

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