What are the success rates for women who use gestational carriers?
In some cases a woman has trouble carrying a pregnancy. In such cases the couple may use ART with a gestational carrier, sometimes called a surrogate. A gestational carrier is a woman who agrees to carry the developing embryo for a couple with infertility problems. Gestational carriers were used in 1% of ART cycles using fresh nondonor embryos in 2006 (1,042 cycles). Figure 40 compares success rates per transfer for ART cycles that used a gestational carrier in 2006 with cycles that did not. In all age groups, success rates for ART cycles that used gestational carriers were higher than success rates for those cycles that did not. Figure 40: Comparison of Percentages of Transfers That Resulted in Live Births Between Cycles That Used Gestational Carriers and Those That Did Not (Both Using Fresh Nondonor Embryos), by ART Patient’s Age, 2006.
