Starting a family can be a wonderful time in one’s life. However, while there are many who very much long to have children, for one reason or another, they are unable to conceive. There is a solution, though, in the process of surrogacy. According to Dr Rita Bakshi, Chairperson of the International Fertility Centre, “Surrogacy involves the carrying of an embryo and the birthing of a baby by one woman, referred to as the surrogate, for a couple. The embryo is usually created through the intended mother’s egg/donor egg and intended father’s sperm/donor sperm using In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF). It is then transferred in the uterus of the surrogate, who acts as a human incubator, carrying the couple’s baby through to the birth.”
IS SURROGACY RIGHT FOR YOU?
There are a lot of things to consider before taking the decision to go
