How to Be a Surrogate Mother for a Friend

As you watch your friend suffer repeatedly as she longs for a child, you may contemplate what you can do to ease her pain so she can have her bundle of joy. Surrogacy may be an option, but you should consider it thoroughly with your friend, her spouse and your partner and make sure you want to be pregnant for nine months and then give up the baby.

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      Consider all the issues concerning the surrogacy. Discuss all the options with your friend and her spouse and your family. Make sure that emotionally you will be able to handle seeing the child as it grows throughout the years, knowing you cannot reveal yourself as his mother.

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      Schedule and attend your physical and psychological screenings to check for any problems and for the doctor to discuss what this journey will entail both physically and mentally.

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      Have a lawyer draft an agreement between you and your friend stating that you will relinquish your rights to the child when the baby is born. It may also entail the medical procedures and risks that you may deal with and the amount your friend will reimburse you for the hospital bills.

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      Discuss with your friend and her spouse if they prefer traditional surrogacy, in which you use one of your fertilized eggs and the reproductive specialist inseminates the egg with your friend's husband's sperm. Alternately, she could opt to use her own eggs and his sperm, and they would be placed inside you, known as gestational surrogacy.

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      Carry the baby to term for nine months, relinquishing him to his parents at the hospital. Some states require that you complete adoption paperwork to complete the surrogacy.

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