Surrogate mother a woman who agrees, usually by contract and for a fee, to bear a child for a couple who are childless because the wife is infertile or physically incapable of carrying a developing fetus. Often the surrogate mother is the biological mother of the child, conceiving it by means of artificial insemination with sperm from the husband. In gestational surrogacy, the wife is fertile but incapable of carrying a growing fetus by surrogate mother; the child is conceived by in vitro fertilization using the wife's eggs and her husband's sperm, and the resulting embryo is implanted in the surrogate mother's uterus.

Surrogate motherhood (surrogate mother) has raised complex ethical and legal issues, and lawsuits over custody after the child's birth have resulted from both types of surrogate mother. In the highly publicized Baby M case, Mary Beth Whitehead, the surrogate (and biological) mother, sued William and Elizabeth Stern, the baby's father and his wife, for custody of the child. Although the surrogate mother was not awarded custody in the Baby M case, she was granted visitation rights. Several European countries and a number of states have passed laws banning paid surrogate mother.

Surrogate mother obligatory Requirements.

The requirements for surrogate mother:

Surrogate mother must be a woman of the age of 18 to 35, preferably having her own child or several children. If the surrogate mother is married, her husband shall give a notarially certified written consent for participation in the extracorporeal fertilization program for surrogate mother.

An additional and very important requirement for potential surrogate mother is her moral and psychological stability, absence of criminal past and medical parameters.

Possible Ways of Search for surrogate mothers.

• You may ask your relatives (your sister, mother) or some good friend of yours to serve you as a surrogate mother. This way is the safest one for the extracorporeal fertilization program, but unfortunately it is not always real.

• You may search for surrogate mother at mass media (announcements, newspapers, Internet).

However, this way can be connected with a number of serious problems, in particular:

• First, giving the announcement at some newspaper in your native city for surrogate mother: " I am looking for a surrogate mother", is not an easy task in itself, many advertising agencies receiving announcements will refuse to receive your announcement without explaining the reason for such refusal.
• Second, in many cases people ringing up in response to such an announcement for surrogate mother just do not understand the meaning of surrogate mother term due to little information available on this issue.
• Third, you have no information on the person with which you are going to discuss such a serious and delicate theme as surrogacy motherhood Program. The extracorporeal fertilization topic comprises too confidential information to be discussed surrogate mother with a stranger.
• Fourth, it is better to find the surrogate mother in other regions and cities, or even other countries, to provide maximum confidentiality in relation to this issue.

We advise you to contact the professionals and transfer them all the responsibility for solution of the surrogacy motherhood problem by extracorporeal fertilization program with help of surrogate mother.

The specialists of the surrogacy motherhood Clinic will provide you with legal support, present a reliable information on all the aspects of the surrogacy motherhood Program and surrogate mother, control organizational problems, psychological state of the surrogate mother, propose choice of potential surrogate mothers and create comfortable and reliable conditions for infertility treatment by extracorporeal fertilization and gestational surrogacy motherhood methods with help of surrogate mother.