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Hello! My name is Elizabeth, and I am writing this review on the request of Professor Feskov’s team. They proposed me to tell my story, and I am glad to do so.

Modern reproductive science has given infertile couples a chance to grow a genetically native child. Although surrogate motherhood is usually a common and trouble-free practice, there are still some cases when an incorrectly constituted contract causes conflicts between a surrogate mother and biological parents.

Surrogacy is filled with many complicated responsibilities, some of which are also costly. For instance, in the process of undergoing the pregnancy, the surrogate mother may find herself in life-against-death situation that could go either way. The reason is that almost any pregnancy can result in maternal death.

The attitude to surrogate motherhood in European countries is rather ambiguous. Surrogate motherhood is a unique reproductive technology that allows to have a child in families where the woman is unable to bear it. For many married couples this is the only chance to give birth to their own child.

When the couple decides to take advantage of this reproductive service, one of the topical issues is the choice of the country in which this is best done. Then the attention of many married couples turns to Ukraine, and this is correct, because Ukraine can rightly be called one of the most comfortable countries for the use of the newest reproductive technologies, including surrogate motherhood

In 2024, new prices are fixed in European countries where surrogacy is practised. These are the countries of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Greece, Belgium, Ukraine. The minimum price for the guaranteed service is 35000 euros. The amount of compensation for the services of a surrogate mother starts from 15000 euros.

Pregnancy is a very important process, because it is necessary to create for the embryo all the conditions for its growth. And one of the important components is the mother's nutrition. Along with food substances that are necessary to ensure that the fetus can receive the necessary "building materials" in time and develop fully, come into the female body, and the woman's body can easily endure this special condition.

Choosing reproductive services in Ukraine, couples will be able to select the gene material in such a way that the child's external features look like them. In Ukraine, surrogate motherhood is cheap with a very high level of reproductive services offered. Therefore, among Europeans, there is a great demand for the use of these reproductive technologies in Ukraine.

Surrogacy. It existed, it exists and it will exist regardless of whether this process is regulated by law or surrogate motherhood will be a kind of criminal business. For someone this is something disgusting and akin to trafficking, for someone it is the last hope, a chance to feel the joy and charm of motherhood, and for someone the opportunity to cheat and earn a lot of money.

Reproductive medicine, embryology, genetics are sciences that walk alongside. Discoveries in one of them make breakthroughs in the other. Scientific progress is moving forward at such a speed that it is sometimes difficult for an ordinary person to imagine in which direction and how far the next leap will take place. Assisted reproductive technologies, “fertilization in vitro” in particular seemed to be something fantastic no more than 30 to 40 years ago, nowadays it is quite tangible therapy in the treatment of infertility. And new discoveries are definitely exciting even for the most persistent and experienced inhabitants.