Surrogacy Benefits for Intended Parents
Intended parents come from all different backgrounds — many are hopeful parents who are ready to start a family, while others have struggled for years with infertility and have exhausted their fertility treatment options. However, all of these intended parents have one thing in common: a strong desire to add to their families. For these couples, surrogacy makes this dream possible.
The advantages of surrogacy are clear to the hundreds of families who have been created in this special way. Here are just a few surrogacy benefits that intended parents enjoy:
Surrogacy allows infertile couples to become parents when they may not be able to have children otherwise.
In most cases, gestational surrogacy allows one or both parents to be biologically related to their child.
Surrogacy gives hopeful parents the opportunity to raise a child from birth.
Intended parents are involved throughout the pregnancy experience and are generally able to be present for many key milestones, from the 12 week scan to their baby’s birth.
Surrogacy gives intended parents the opportunity to know and form a special bond with their surrogate.
Intended parents may face fewer restrictions with surrogacy than with adoption; those who cannot adopt due to agency restrictions on factors like age can still pursue surrogacy.
Surrogates may have already carried other pregnancies and have a proven uterus, increasing their chances of successfully carrying a surrogate pregnancy. This may make surrogacy more likely to be successful than fertility treatments for intended parents.
While surrogacy is not without its challenges for intended parents, it is often the answer to years of hard work and frustration for hopeful couples and individuals who have tried unsuccessfully to add to their families.
