Surrogate motherhood programs

There are a lot of speculations and rumors regarding surrogacy. We will try to present a clear picture regarding the surrogacy in Russia

• «Surrogate motherhood is a crime». Surrogate motherhood is legal in Russia and is completely regulated by the law. A written contract is signed with a surrogate mother and a couple, which clearly specifies the rights and obligations of each party involved. In Russia, there are many legal and professional agencies which specialize in surrogate motherhood and have been working for many years. The primary objective of these agencies is to ensure that surrogate mother will fulfil her duties while a couple will fulfil their.
• «Surrogacy is a toy for the rich». Surrogate Motherhood is a resort for a few certain and well-defined medical conditions such as:
  • if a woman suffers from congenital or acquired defects of the reproductive organs, making it impossible to conceive and/or carry a child (for example, the absence of a uterus);
  • a woman has a medical condition which make gestation either impossible or dangerous for her and/or the child;
  • a woman went through repeated unsuccessful attempts of IVF and/or unsuccessful pregnancies in the anamnesis.
  
  It is natural, that for the hard work of bearing a child, involved hardships, deterioration of health during pregnancy along with the loss of actual income during maternity leave, surrogate mothers want to receive decent compensation. This compensation is the bulk of the cost of the surrogate motherhood program. Nevertheless, there are cases of closely related surrogate motherhood, when the close relative of a family (sister, mother, daughter, etc.) plays the role of surrogate mother. Naturally, in such cases, the question of compensation, as a rule, does not arise.
• «The surrogate mother gives her child to strangers." This conjecture is a lot simpler to solve than it seems. First and foremost aspect is that the surrogate mother has no genetic relationship to the child she is carrying. Even if a woman does not have biological material of her own the law clearly defines that only donor’s eggs can be used in IVF process. Surrogate mother taking up a responsibility to bare somebody’s child clearly understands that this child is a stranger to her, that he is entrusted to her only for the gestation period he must be returned to the parents.

Prime candidates for surrogate programs

• a women went through hysterectomy procedure due to some severe gynecological issue (like bleeding caused by uterine fibroids, cervical pathology, hypotonic bleeding after childbirth, or other complications after surgical interventions resulted in removal of the uterus);
• uterine scarring after several surgical interventions (for example, several cesarean sections) with the signs of a failure of the scar on the uterus
• atrophic vaginitis, which cannot be medically treated (a frequent consequence of abortion complications, purulent inflammation or uterine mucous membrane trauma);
• other conditions which can prevent a woman from getting pregnant (for example, severe cardiac pathology, acute kidney, severe diabetes, etc.)

Surrogacy. Interesting Facts

Thanks to the Surrogate Motherhood (SM) program, we can take your oocytes, fertilize them with your spouse’s sperm and transfer embryos into the uterus of a young healthy woman who has no contraindications for pregnancy. She will bear your child under the constant supervision of specialists: an obstetrician-gynecologist, a therapist, a psychologist, and right after the birth you will take your baby away.

Surrogate motherhood in Russia is absolutely legal and is regulated by a law. A written contract is signed with the surrogate mother, which clearly specifies the rights and obligations of each party. There are many professional recruitment agencies for surrogate mothers in Russia which control the fulfillment of their duties by the surrogate mother throughout the entire gestational period and take all the responsibility and security guarantees of such protocol from both legal and medical perspectives.

How to choose a surrogate mother?

The ministry of health of Russian Federation in the order 107 recommends that a surrogate mother should be a woman under the age of 35, preferably has a child of her own and has been declared fit for pregnancy after a complete medical examination.