"Not my child to give away": A qualitative analysis of gestational surrogates' experiences.

CONCLUSION: Our findings provide a deeper understanding of participants' reasons for and motivation to be a surrogate, the relationship dynamics with their intended parents and the gestated fetus during surrogacy, and their satisfaction on personal and relationship levels post surrogacy. The findings would be useful to mental health professionals in preparing new surrogates for the potential challenges along the surrogacy pathway. PMID: 30824376 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30824376?dopt=Abstract

Source: Women Birth - February 25, 2019 Category: Midwifery Authors: Yee S, Hemalal S, Librach CL Tags: Women Birth Source Type: research