How is gestational surrogacy performed?
• An appropriate surrogate is chosen and thoroughly screened for infectious diseases. • At least one session with a psychologist is required. • Consents are signed by all parties. This is a most important step in surrogacy cases. All potential issues need to be carefully clarified, put in writing, signed, and understood by all parties prior to initiation of the treatment. • The patient is stimulated with medications to develop multiple egg development. • The surrogate is placed on medications that suppress her own menstrual cycle and stimulate development of a receptive uterine lining. • When the patient’s follicles are mature, an egg retrieval procedure is performed to remove the eggs from her ovaries. The eggs are then fertilized in the laboratory with her partner’s sperm. • The embryos develop in the laboratory for 3 days. Then, an embryo transfer procedure is done which places the embryos in the surrogate’s uterus where they will hopefully implant and develop to result in a live bi
