What is surrogacy?
Gestational surrogacy involves a family's project and a surrogate mother's decision to carry the pregnancy. The embryo is created through IVF. The process requires medical care, informed agreements, and legal review, respecting each person's well-being and autonomy.
What is surrogacy?
- How the embryo is created
- What else is needed besides treatment
- Questions to discuss at the start
- Related articles
- Sources
In surrogacy, individuals with their own stories and decisions participate. Intended parents seek to form their family, and a surrogate mother decides to participate by carrying the pregnancy. Her health, autonomy, and well-being are part of the care during the process.
How the embryo is created
In the gestational modality, the embryo is created through in vitro fertilization, using either own or donated eggs and sperm. The surrogate mother does not provide the egg. Donation and gestation are distinct functions.
What else is needed besides treatment
The process also requires evaluation of the parties, informed agreements, and legal support. The intention to become parents and the genetic link do not alone resolve parentage, meaning the legal recognition as parents.
Questions to discuss at the start
- Why this option may be suitable for your case.
- Who will provide the eggs and sperm.
- How the rights of the surrogate mother and the baby will be protected.
- What procedures are needed in Colombia and your country.
No treatment guarantees a birth. Before deciding, you can discuss options, risks, and steps with the medical and legal team.
Related articles
- Stages of a surrogacy process
- What to ask in the first consultation
- The legal route of surrogacy in Colombia
