Would you be a surrogate mother?
Being a surrogate mother is not an easy thing to do. Normally, women who agree to be a surrogate mother for a couple would normally be a close family member or someone who is paid a lot of money. I can imagine how hard it is to be a surrogate mother. The things you put your body through during pregnancy, labour and childbirth, and even the care you need after birth.
Not only do your go through a lot of physical changes, you may also have to deal with separation anxieties once you have delivered the baby. It’s quite inevitable that during the pregnancy you will feel some emotions towards the life that is growing inside you.
Most mothers will also tell you that at the first sight of the baby upon delivery, they are head over heels in love with the newborn. You may say that is so because that’s the mother’s flesh and blood. But to have carried a child in your womb for a good part of the year is bound to set you emotionally attached to the baby.
Knowing what it takes to be a surrogate mother, would you agree to be a one for the closest family member if they come to you for help? Or if someone offers you a lot of money to help them conceive, would you put yourself through it?
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January 13th, 2009
Well, I’ve been a surrogate mother-twice. Both times for non-family members, and yes, I was paid. I gave birth to twins the first time and a singleton the second.
Not sure where you’re getting the “paid a lot of money”. Do you consider those who work at McDonalds to be getting paid a lot of money? Because when you break the fees down with surrogacy, you get much much less than a minimum wage job.
Most surrogates get between $18-22,000 for a first surrogacy. That journey can take 1-2 years. Sorry, but that’s not a ton of money.
And as far as “falling in love with the baby”, that didn’t happen. Yes, I cared for the babies, but to me, they were just babies and I felt for them much the same way I felt for any child I had babysat. I felt that I was completely responsible for them, and that I would do whatever I needed to do to take good care of them, but at the end of the day they were going home to their parents.
I did, however, fall “in love” with the parents, and it felt wonderful to make their dreams come true.
January 15th, 2009
Rayven, I salute you for doing this. And thanks for sharing the information. I never knew anyone who has been a surrogate mother, and this is definitely first-hand information.
August 5th, 2011
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November 7th, 2011
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