What is the difference between a Gestational Surrogate and a Traditional Surrogate?
In gestational surrogacy, pregnancy is achieved by transferring embryos created with the Prospective Mothers eggs or eggs from an Egg Donor and the Prospective Fathers sperm or donor sperm through the process of In Vitro Fertilization into the uterus of the gestational carrier, a quick and painless procedure. With this type of surrogacy, the Surrogate is not biologically related to the baby she will carry. In traditional surrogacy, pregnancy is achieved through Artificial Insemination (AI) whereby semen of the Prospective Father or a sperm donor is introduced into the uterus of the Surrogate (intrauterine insemination) in a doctor’s office. In this instance, the Surrogate is the biological mother of the baby and, for this reason, most women choose not to be traditional surrogates. The advantage of traditional surrogacy is that, unlike gestational surrogacy, there are no injections.
