Gestational Surrogacy is a medico-legal arrangement in which a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or person. A Gestational Surrogacy always takes place in a clinical setting and requires the transfer of a previously created embryo.
The intended parents sometimes also called as the commissioning parents may arrange a surrogate pregnancy due to female infertility. It is also helpful for parents suffering from other medical issues where pregnancy or delivery is impossible. The Intended Parents may provide the sperm or eggs, but the donor sperm and donor eggs may also be used in some cases due to lack of quality of self-gametes.
Prescribed expenses and insurance as per the Surrogacy Regulation act will be payable
Gestational surrogacy is a process, where the intended mother is not able to carry a baby to term due to hysterectomy, cancer, diabetes, hyper tension, fibroid, congenital absence of uterus because of MRKH syndrome. The egg and sperm from the intended parents is used to create an embryo by in vitro fertilization. Further it is the transferred into and carried by the surrogate mother. The child born is genetically related to the parents while the surrogate mother has no genetic relation. The surrogate mother carries the child or children through gestation and this is called Gestational surrogacy.
If the intended mother is unable to produce egg sometimes an egg donor or oocyte donor may be required. In this scenario the surrogate mother carries the embryo developed from a donor egg that has been fertilized by sperm from the genetic father. This kind of treatment is called Gestational Surrogacy with Egg Donation.
Even though, the idea of vanity surrogacy is a common feature in the news media and anti-surrogacy arguments, we at the Kiran Infertility Centre are proud to state that we don’t take up cases where the Gestational Surrogacy is sought only for vanity purposes. We are always eager and happy to help people who genuinely have medical issues. Also we don’t consider cases of surrogacy, where it’s just a question of outward appearances.
All egg donor and surrogacy treatments at KIC are offered as per the ART and Surrogacy Regulation bills.