Would You Consider Surrogacy

@gandatwo (602)
Australia
March 15, 2008 3:45pm CST
Recently on television I viewed a program on women whom offered themselves to be surrogates,the program was very moving,what are your thoughts on surrogacy,have you encounted anyone who has gone through this?
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8 responses
• China
18 Mar 08
Although this matter is very novel,rich technical nature,but I will not go to do.I thought that has Bo in ethics,I could not accept.
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@cortney09 (1345)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I would do this in a heartbeat. I mean they would be the parents, I would be just carrying the child. I see this as a great thing. I have never known anyone to do this, but I'm sure that there are many women that do.
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@magikrose (5429)
• United States
17 Mar 08
I wanted to be a surrogate mother for a couple but after having my 4 I ran into problems and found out that IF I were to have another I could loose my life. I know there are many couple out there who want to have a baby and I wantedto help them get a baby because I knew how it felt to hold that newborn for the first time and I wanted to help even 1 couple feel that feeling and I am sad that I cant share that feeling with someone who wants it. I give credit to those women who can be surrogates and provide to needy couples what they desire the most.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
17 Mar 08
no, my body has always been too fragile, for that, I had one child of my own and it was a hard pregnancy I would not go through that for anyone else.
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• United States
16 Mar 08
I seriously considered doing that...then I got pregnant with twins. Yikes! Since many surrogates end up with multiples I wasn't sure I wanted to go through that again. :) I did begin to reconsider but I realized I was probably just getting too old anyway. It was sort of bittersweet, though, because now I have personal knowledge of the heartache of infertility whereas when I considered it before I had no idea. Anyway, YES, there was a time I would have done it in a heartbeat. Not using my eggs, no, but if it was the couple's own egg/sperm (a case where she simply couldn't carry a baby to term for some reason) I would have been honored to carry their baby for them. Would it be hard emotionally? Probably. Would I forever have a special bond to the child. You bet I would. But had the opportunity presented itself I would have jumped at the chance with both feet and absolutely no hesitation.
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@julievy (593)
• United States
16 Mar 08
I don't personally know anyone that has served as a surrogate nor gotten a child this way. However, if I was 20 years younger I would definitly be willing to be a surrogate for someone. I don't think I would be willing to accept any money for it, because then I would feel like I was selling a baby. But, by being implanted by a test tube embryo I would just be giving the child shelter until it was ready to be born. Unfortunately at the age where I was healthy and strong enough to do this I was already caring for 2 kids of my own and my grandmother and just would not have had the (emotional) strength to provide that service.
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@asgtswife04 (2475)
• United States
15 Mar 08
I don't think that I could do it personally because i would become attached to the child that was in me and then to have to turn him/her over to someone else, it would be just to difficult for me. there are some people out there though that could do it no questions asked. i really think it takes a special person to do something like that. God bless
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• United States
15 Mar 08
It's nothing that I would ever do. It would be too awkward and I would feel as if I were being unfaithful to my husband by carrying someone else's child. It just seems like an odd thing, and while I know that some people are able to do it, there's no way I would be able to carry a child for 9 months and then give it away. I would feel like it was my child, not theirs.