Benefits of Surrogacy: a new age of Parenting

1. Benefits of Surrogacy for Intended Parents
2. Benefits of surrogacy for surrogate mothers
3. TOP 5 advantages of surrogacy

This applies not only to traditional married couples diagnosed with infertility, but also to single people who need surrogacy, same-sex couples, and couples in partnerships. Just 50 years ago, the only way to become parents when it was impossible to carry a child to term was adoption; the right to be parents for same-sex couples was out of the question. 

Today, the advantages of surrogacy allow future parents to choose which country the surrogate mother will arrive in to give birth to their child, to conduct the reproductive program in their country or abroad, what the surrogate mother will be like, and other details. In turn, gestational carriers also find many advantages to being a surrogate mother. What are the advantages of surrogacy for each side of the process? This article will tell you about them.

Benefits of Surrogacy for Intended Parents

For intended parents, whether they are a traditional married couple, a single parent, a same-sex couple, or a couple in a partnership marriage, there are a number of positive aspects to surrogacy. The main benefits of surrogacy are:

• the opportunity to become parents when pregnancy is impossible (this equally applies to diagnosed infertility in a couple, the absence of a partner in the case of individual parents, the impossibility of carrying out IVF for one of the same-sex couples);
• the opportunity to choose the ideal surrogate mother, who will become a friend and a source of support during the reproductive journey;
• the opportunity to choose the country where the surrogacy program will be carried out: medical procedures can be carried out in a country where the prices for surrogacy are lower, the procedure for legalizing a newborn is simpler, the legislation is generally more loyal and well-developed.

The positive aspects of surrogacy are most noticeable in countries where a positive attitude towards this method of expanding the family is supported by legislation and a favorable perception on the part of society.

Benefits of surrogacy for surrogate mothers

Gestational carriers themselves also find positive aspects of surrogacy. Benefits of being a surrogate mother:

• the opportunity to realize your spiritual needs: to give life to a child of other people, fulfilling the main dream of their life - a magnanimous and courageous feat;
• the opportunity to receive a fair reward for your invaluable help: even if only altruistic surrogacy is allowed in your country, you can take part in an international program in a country where commercial contracts are allowed;
• the opportunity to experience the joy of pregnancy again when you are not planning to expand your own family - one of the positive aspects of surrogacy.

A significant advantage of surrogacy for gestational carriers is that demand outweighs supply. There are always more intended parents than women willing to help them with the birth of a child and who are fit for the role of a surrogate mother in terms of health and psychological health. This allows surrogate mothers to count on a caring attitude and better conditions for cooperation, and the risk of abuse is reduced.

TOP 5 advantages of surrogacy

In addition to the previously listed main positive aspects of surrogacy, there are less obvious, but no less important ones. TOP 5 advantages of surrogacy:

1. Establishing a parent-child connection: with surrogacy, the child has a genetic connection with at least one parent. In addition, biological parents are actively involved in the process of achieving pregnancy and carrying the child from the very beginning of the program, and can be present when the baby is born and be the first to hold it in their arms. 
2. Easier entry threshold than adoption: the adoption process can involve complex and lengthy legal procedures, with no guarantee of a positive outcome. In countries with a reliable legal framework, a contract between the surrogate mother, biological parents, and the reproductive clinic provides grounds for expecting the birth of the child and obtaining parental rights. 
3. Establishing strong emotional bonds. Strong emotional bonds are sometimes established between biological parents and the surrogate mother. In each other, the participants of the program acquire close people.
4. Increase in the number of successful pregnancies: due to the surrogate mother having at least experience of her own pregnancy, the probability of pregnancy with your child also increases. This is also facilitated by the development of reproductive medicine, improvement of the IVF procedure, the possibility of transferring two embryos to increase the probability of implantation and other aspects.
5. Another advantage of surrogacy is the flexibility of the process: the intended parents have the opportunity to plan the onset of pregnancy, determine the exact gestation period, and plan the desired time interval between possible births of subsequent children using the program. In-depth analysis of embryos allows us to guarantee the absence of chromosomal pathologies in the child.

There are positive aspects to surrogacy for both the parents-to-be and the surrogate mothers. The more advantages you have, the more likely it is that you will remember your reproductive journey as an amazing and joyful journey to your long-awaited baby.