'A person who acts for or takes the place of another' [Oxford English Dictionary]. In reproductive medicine, a woman who has a baby on another woman's behalf. See also: gestational surrogacy See also: traditional surrogacy See also: collaborative reproduction
providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father"
a unique type of woman who is willing to be impregnated using IVF or intrauterine insemination (IUI) procedures and will carry a baby for intended parents in order for them to complete their family
a woman who agrees to become pregnant using the man's sperm and her own egg
a woman who carries a pregnancy for another woman
a woman who contracts to gestate a child whom she will relinquish to a couple (or a single person) soon after the child is born so that the couple can adopt the child
A traditional surrogate is a woman who is inseminated with the sperm of a man who is not her partner in order to conceive and carry a child to be reared by the biological genetic father and his partner. In this procedure the surrogate is genetically related to the child. The biological father and his partner must usually adopt the child after its birth. Another type of surrogate is a gestational carrier. This process involves implanting a fertilized egg into the surrogate's uterus. In the procedure the surrogate does not provide the egg and is therefore not biologically genetically related to the child. This type of surrogate provides what is often referred to as a host uterus.
A traditional surrogate is a woman who is inseminated with the sperm of a man who is not her partner in order to conceive and carry a child to be reared by the biological (genetic) father and his partner. In this procedure the surrogate is genetically related to the child. The biological father and his partner must usually adopt the child after its birth. Another type of surrogate is a gestational carrier. This process involves implanting a fertilized egg (embryo) into the surrogate's uterus. In this procedure the surrogate does not provide the egg and is therefore not biologically (genetically) related to the child. l J l l N l l Q l l l X l Y l
A host female animal that carries a donor embryo to term.
A woman who is inseminated either directly or through IVF with the sperm of a man who is not her partner for purposes of conceiving and carrying a child to be reared by the biological father and his wife.
A woman who carries an embryo that was formed from the egg of another woman; the surrogate is expected to return the infant to its genetic parents.
A woman who becomes pregnant through insemination with the sperm of the husband of an infertile woman, and then following delivery, turns the child over for adoption by the couple, or a woman willing to carry the pregnancy by transferring the embryos from an infertile couple.
A woman who becomes pregnant through insemination with the sperm of the husband of an infertile woman, or with an embryo created by the latter, who then following delivery turns the child over to the couple for adoption
woman who agrees to become pregnant with the sperm of another woman's partner, and carry the fetus to delivery for that woman. In this case, the surrogate is the genetic mother.