What is surrogacy?

In Surrogacy a woman (called Surrogate mother) carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. The surrogate mother may be the child’s genetic mother (called traditional surrogacy), or she may be genetically unrelated to the child (called gestational surrogacy).

Traditional surrogacy is where the child may be conceived via home artificial insemination using fresh or frozen sperm or impregnated via IUI (intrauterine insemination), or ICI (intracervical insemination) performed at a IVF clinic.

Gestational surrogacy requires the transfer of a previously created embryo, and for this reason the process always takes place in a clinical setting.

The surrogate mother is sometimes also called “carrier”.