How Does Surrogacy Work? A Full Guide for Intended Parents | Physician’s Surrogacy

Gestational Carrier - Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine

Surrogate? Gestational Carrier? What’s the difference? Commonly, it’s all combined under the term “surrogate” but the truth is that they are two VERY DIFFERENT things.⁠ ⁠ The number one difference is that gestational carriers have ZERO genetic relationship to the baby. This type of procedure takes the intended mother’s egg and intended father’s sperm, creates an embryo and implants their embryo into the gestational carrier through a transfer. With a surrogate situation the carrier uses her egg a