Tuesday 18 September 2012

Surrogate Mothers in India – Costs, Laws, Medical Facilities & Culture

Surrogate Mothers in India – Costs, Laws, Medical Facilities &Culture

Surrogate mothers in India cost considerably lower (about, a fourth of what they would cost in the United States). The cost of surrogacy in the United States is approximately $50,000 to $100,000.
Surrogacy in India has fewer legal hassles and a Government organization – Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has set national guidelines to regulate it. Unlike many countries 
 where surrogacy is banned or has many restrictions, India’s laws allow the surrogate mother to sign away her rights to the baby as soon as the baby is delivered.

Surrogacy is a God-sent option for women having trouble conceiving. The procedure uses IVF technology, except for the fact that the embryo is planted in the uterus of a surrogate mother, who can successfully carry the pregnancy to term.

 Approximate Surrogacy Cycle Cost at a reputed hospital in India is about US $ 22 to 35k. It includes
·  Doctor Charges
·  Surrogate Work up
·  Antenatal Care
·  Delivery Charges
·  Surrogate compensation
·  Drugs and Consumables.
This does not include the cost of IVF / ICSI. IVF cost in India is about US $ 2,000. ICSI cost in India is about US $ 2,500. FYI, in India even more 
cheaper surrogacy options are available, but not advisable, due to potential higher medical quality issues.

There are two kinds of surrogate mothers
1)Traditional surrogates

 Artificial insemination first made surrogacy possible. A traditional surrogate is a woman who is artificially inseminated with the father's sperm. She then carries the baby and delivers it for the parents to raise. A traditional surrogate is the baby's biological mother. That's because it was her egg that was fertilized by the father's sperm. Donor sperm can also be used for a traditional surrogacy.



2)Gestational surrogates-
Invitro fertilization (IVF) now makes it possible to harvest eggs from the mother, fertilize them with sperm from the father, and place the embryo into the uterus of a gestational surrogate. The surrogate then carries the baby until birth. A gestational surrogate has no genetic ties to the child. That's because it wasn't her egg that was used. A gestational surrogate is called the "birth mother." The biological mother, though, is still the woman whose egg was fertilized.
In the U.S., gestational surrogacy is less complex legally. That's because both intended parents have genetic ties to the baby. As a result, gestational surrogacy has become more common than a traditional surrogate. About 750 babies are born each year using gestational surrogacy.

5 comments:

  1. Surrogacy has become a boost to the medical tourism department in India where by foreigners come here to have babies at very low and economical costs.


    It is said that American couples who have fertility issues and lack of time to give birth to a child on their own, are willing to come to India to have babies through the surrogate mother in India, since they do this job at a very low price when compared to a surrogate mother in their own country.
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  2. Some reputed doctors that did not wished to be named in surrogacy centers in India said that cynics can only argue about the issue of morality but can they give the surrogates a sense of financial independence and child to infertile couples? They feel that they are working for a noble cause. On the other end due to lack of proper laws in surrogacy, many couples from west decide not to choose India to have their baby. Surrogacy in India

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  3. Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman is hired to carry and deliver a child for a couple or for some individual. Depending on sperm and egg sources, different cases of surrogacy fall under different categories. Normally surrogacy is of two types, Gestational Surrogacy and Traditional Surrogacy.
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  5. Surrogate mother India is not a new concept. Hence when it comes to actualization of the dream of the client to start a family, much care is taken. The happiness and health of the surrogate mother is given importance. Also the expectant couple's happiness ensured. Surrogate mother India

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