Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby a woman agrees to become pregnant for the purpose of gestating and giving birth to a child for others to raise. She may be the child's genetic mother or not, depending on the type of arrangement agreed to.
The word surrogate, from Latin surrogatus (substituted), means appointed to act in the place of.
A surrogate mother is a woman who carries a child for a couple or single person with the intention of giving that child to that person/people once the child is born (also called surrogate pregnancy). The surrogate mother may be the baby's biological mother (traditional surrogacy) or she may be implanted with someone else's fertilized egg (gestational surrogacy). [ batgirl282's advice column | Ask batgirl282 A Question ]
Brandi_S answered Saturday March 10 2007, 8:27 am: Yes. When they fertilize a woman's egg with a man's sperm and put it into another woman, the woman carrying and giving birth to the child is called a surrogate mother.
For some reason or another, the biological mother can't carry the child or give birth to the child, so the surrogate mother volunteers to carry the baby for the parents so they can have a child of their own. [ Brandi_S's advice column | Ask Brandi_S A Question ]
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