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The egg donation process

by surrogatemother @ 2008-05-27 - 13:46:12

Click here for surrogacy at Mumbai in India. Egg donation is done through an In Vitro Fertilization, IVF procedure where a donor’s ovaries are stimulated with hormone stimulation medications to have the donor produce multiple eggs. The eggs are removed from the donor’s ovaries by placing a needle and ultrasound probe through the donor’s vagina. There will not be any surgical incision. The donor will receive general anesthesia for the surgical procedure. Once the eggs are removed, the eggs are fertilized with sperm from the intended father or a sperm donor. A number of the resulting embryos are then transferred to the uterus of the intended mother or a gestational carrier, a surrogate mother who is not genetically related to the child.

Most fertility clinics require donors to inject themselves or have a partner, family member or friend administer the injections. After being matched with intended parents, egg donors are medically and psychologically screened by a fertility clinic. While the screening process varies from clinic to clinic, egg donors usually complete a medical questionnaire, undergo a medical and psychological evaluation, and receive medication training. Egg donors usually will meet the intended parents’ IVF physician, a nurse, and a mental health professional. Donors should use this consultation to ensure that they understand and receive answers to all of their medical and psychological questions regarding the egg donation process. If anything, increased demand on surrogacy at Mumbai in India due to medical tourism may result in their expansion.


 
 

What guaranties and safeguards are there?

by surrogatemother @ 2008-05-24 - 09:08:13

There will be a greater push for encouraging private insurance tied to systems of accreditation of surrogate mother hospitals in India. As for the medical certainty of getting a child, only a Reproductive Endocrinologist can answer that for each case. As for legal and monetary safeguards, a written contract should be prepared by an attorney. In a gestational surrogacy the intended parents take custody of the child immediately after delivery. They immediately petition the Court for approval of the agreement and notify all persons interested including the surrogate and Reproductive Endocrinologist. The Court will examine the agreement and the facts of the case and, barring unforeseen difficulties, confirm the parentage of the intended parents as the legal parents. In a genetic surrogacy the intended parents go through a modified adoption procedure.

Consent (after delivery of the child) is obtained from the genetic surrogate. Then a petition is filed for adoption naming all appropriate parties including the intended parents, the genetic surrogate and the surrogate¹s spouse (if any). In some instances HRS is notified in advance to do a home study, though often after delivery they treat the adoption as a step-parent adoption (since the intended father is the biological father) and thus bow out of further involvement. The Court reviews the case and if approved, names the intended parents as the legal parents and orders the issuance of a new birth certificate. This procedure is more involved and takes longer than that involved in a gestational surrogacy. Furthermore, the home study and background investigation by HRS or other approved agencies must be completed prior to the child going home with the intended parents. Thus this should be done in advance of delivery. If it in not, the attorney involved with the procedure must procure temporary housing for the child. Read my experience of surrogate mother at hospitals in India.

What if the child is born with birth defects?

by surrogatemother @ 2008-05-18 - 07:08:30

Click this sitefor surrogacy hospitals in India. As with a traditional pregnancy and birth, the responsibility and care will be with the intended parents. The surrogate will have no responsibility after birth even if the birth defect(s) may have been caused by some activity or behavior of the surrogate.

What happens if pregnancy is not achieved or there is a miscarriage?

If pregnancy is not achieved or there is a miscarriage, the parties can try again as often as they agree.

Are there any medical risks to the Intended Parents or surrogate and should additional insurance be obtained?

Any and all risks should be thoroughly discussed with the reproductive endocrinologist. The medical risks to the Intended Parents are generally very low (though in a gestational surrogacy there may be some related to egg retrieval). The risks to the surrogate are normally those associated with any pregnancy and delivery. All parties should attempt to have applicable medical and hospitalization insurance in place, including maternity coverage, to cover all anticipated medical contingencies. In fact, most of the surrogacy hospitals in India use exactly the same machines and instruments as the most advanced hospitals in the west.

How is the pregnancy managed and who makes the decisions?

by surrogatemother @ 2008-05-13 - 12:01:49

Visit this section for surrogate hospitals in India. After pregnancy is achieved, the surrogate’s care is managed by an obstetrician of the surrogate’s choosing. While the intended parents usually pay for the OB and may be involved in the surrogate’s care, ultimately the surrogate has final control over her care.

What about amniocentesis and abortion?

These decisions are also made solely by the surrogate. It is expected that prior to entering into a Surrogacy arrangement, the surrogate and intended parents will discuss these matters in detail. An amniocentesis may be advisable even if the surrogate is young since the eggs and sperm may be from an older couple. Issues such as abortion if the fetus has genetic defects should be thoroughly discussed in advance between the parties so that if any when a decision is required the decision made by the surrogate will be one everyone agrees with. Surrogate hospitals in India and a holiday of your dreams could still cost at least 50% cheaper than UK, USA.

Who needs surrogacy?

by surrogatemother @ 2008-05-10 - 09:25:43

Unfortunately, many couples are unable to have their own children. Up until the last couple of decades, those couples had only two alternatives: adopt or remain childless. Today, due to advances in reproductive technology, couples now have medical means to have children. Reproductive techniques such as artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization/pre-embryo transfer (IVF/ET, also known as test-tube babies) and other Advanced Reproductive Technologies (ART) allow otherwise infertile couples a chance to have children.
However, there are still some couples for whom these techniques are not successful and for whom adoption is not an attractive or viable option. These couples may still wish to have children who are their genetic offspring. Often the mother cannot give birth for reasons that may include lack of a uterus or where pregnancy would be medically risky. For these or other reasons, the only way to have genetic offspring is to have another woman carry and give birth to their child: a Surrogate Mother. The couple wishing to obtain a child through a surrogacy arrangement is often referred to in the law as "Commissioning Couple" or "Intended Parents." Click here to read my experience of surrogacy in India.

How to Figure Out How Much Compensation to Ask for from Intended Parents?

by surrogatemother @ 2008-05-06 - 09:53:35

Visit here for my experience of surrogacy in India. As surrogate mothers proceed with their surrogacy journey they come to the point where they are asked what their "fee" is. They may be asked this by and agency, a potential intended parent or even just a friend or family member. This question sounds simple enough but it is not. The compensation a surrogate mother receives may or may not include some or all of the many expenses the surrogate pregnancy will create for the surrogate and her family. For this reason there is no flat answer unless the proposed contract specifically allows for reimbursement for each and every surrogacy induced cost which before you have a contract you will not know if this applies to you. This means that while one surrogate may say she is asking for only $5,000 for her acting as a surrogate mother she may be receiving more than another woman who says she is receiving $20,000. Whether you are working with an agency or not may greatly change how much money you and your family require in order to do the surrogacy arrangement. When you are asked what you fee is, it is best to respond not with a definite answer which will most likely be inaccurate and sound more like a price tag. Instead try offering a high and low of what the surrogacy might cost you and a range of how much compensation you would like to receive depending on what exactly the surrogacy requires of you. Medical tourism of India is providing low cost surrogacy in India to international patients.

Surrogate Mother Recruitment in India

by surrogatemother @ 2008-04-25 - 09:36:17

The hospital provides clean and high-class accommodations, state-of-the-art medical equipment and excellent service. Patients will benefit from well-trained, multi-language personnel, convenient transportation for surrogate mother in India. Surrogate candidates complete a 26 page evaluation form detailing their complete family, health, employment and educational history. On this form the surrogate mother provides a personal description of her life and reasons for wanting to be a surrogate carrier.

Surrogate candidates sign a statement that if they have made any significant misrepresentation or omission such is grounds for dismissal from the surrogate program and they can be held responsible for any lab, medical or psychological costs involved in furtherance of the proposed surrogacy. Photographs of surrogate candidates' families along with their health history forms are given to intended parent(s). Once the intended parent(s) finish their review of this information, a meeting is set up with their chosen candidate(s) to discuss whether or not they are compatible to work together. Click here to read my story of surrogate mother in India.

Facilitation and Follow Up

by surrogatemother @ 2008-04-22 - 10:13:07

Visit this page for surrogate mother in India. Doctor works with all clients on a highly individual basis. Doctor refers the surrogate candidate to the treating physician. She also refers the intended parents to an insurance broker that will procure health and life insurance coverage for the surrogate. As surrogacy often brings up numerous psychological issues for the intended parent(s) and surrogate, Doctors requires surrogates to have monthly phone contact with experienced fertility therapists. Doctors also require the intended parent(s) to complete a psychological evaluation and if an emotionally charged issue cannot be resolved the parties are referred to a therapist. Follow-up services include maintenance of adequate funding in escrow accounts, bi-monthly mailing of accounting statements, consultations and updates with the surrogate, intended parent(s), therapist and the treating medical staff if necessary. Recruitment efforts focus on finding healthy women between the ages of 24 to 39 who have delivered children. We recruit surrogate candidates who state that they have delivered at least one child; they have a support person to give them injections; that they don't smoke cigarettes and are not taking any substances. International patients are coming for surrogate mother in India in major industrialized cities like Mumbai, Goa, Kerela, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune.