Is it normal to want to get into surrogacy?

I've been thinking about this for about a month now. I read about some information about how surrogacy works and it caught my attention instantly. I've never given birth or had a child before. The most thing that I liked is the financial package.

They pay for the hospital bills and visits and first time surrogacy women get payed 20 grand and it increases as you get involved. That kind of money would help a lot and well I love helping people. Is it normal or too extreme do to for money?

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Based on 42 votes (20 yes)
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  • dirtybirdy

    Your reasoning is messed up. You also sound like your a teenager. To wonder if your vagina will get big lol is just proof that you should not be doing this, you're not even close to mature enough. Don't even think about it anymore. Just my opinion.

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  • NocturnePonyFan

    Your reasoning is seriously fucked up. You can make good money by actually getting a job. You don't need to be a surrogate or sell your plasma to make money or get good health care! Plus, you said you've never given birth before, correct? Most likely, you won't even be allowed to be a surrogate. People want to make sure you have had experience with pregnancy and that you can carry a baby safely to full-term. Try looking for a job. In a few years after you've matured, if you have had kids of your own, can handle a safe pregnancy, and you STILL want to become a surrogate (NOT to make money, but to help someone who wants a child), then you can certainly give it a go.

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  • agoodlovejoy

    I think its great that you give life and no sex involved. You are an angel because I know you love each child you give birth to. Then you let them go to their biological mom and dad. Then through your blood you are a partner from heaven, about our Father's Gods' business.

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  • ihatenigga's

    This is just way fucked up I'm 18 I've got a son and I wouldn't give him up even if I died and my mum had him took by social workers I need the money for a new house but I wouldn't sell ma womb for it theyres a way cheaper way if they really wanted kids and they carry they're own its only 20,000 for 3 I'm fighting for my son and u wanna be a fucked up little kid that wants to rent a womb for money ur way to immature get a brain find a job when uve got kids ull regret wat u sed here

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  • jocyjocy20

    I do have job, I'm a CNA and going finishing up school in a year to be a Nurse. I'm not a child but I'm young(20 yrs old) Yea and everyone have their own opinion.

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  • Terence_the_viking

    Jeez grow up first kid.

    What is it with kids thes days?

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  • NeuroNeptunian

    You honestly don't sound mature enough to do this.

    Surrogacy isn't just about squirting out a child. All 9 of those months, you are being paid to keep yourself healthy, stay away from any environment that isn't pregnancy-safe and ensure that the child has as good of an environment to grow in as possible. I really don't feel that you are grown enough to handle the task.

    Pregnancy isn't like what you see on TV where you get to eat ice-cream cakes and complain about your back all day. It's hard work and requires constant care for both the Mother and the infant and you have to be a very grown up person to do that kind of work. From the sounds of it, you're barely literate. For the sake of your own body and the baby, don't do it.

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  • flyinlion

    You have to have had a baby on your own to be a surrgoate--at least in most situations. That said, the only person I've ever known to be a surrogate to someone other than family was a VERY selfish person. Honestly, it's a very delicate thing for a woman/man to need a surrogate and it's also a very HUGE responsibility for the surrogate mother. It's not something you do for the money or the recognition. It's something you do because you love someone and support their decision to be a parent. Money shouldn't even cross your mind.

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  • jocyjocy20

    Maybe I should ask if they prefer that but what I read from the package, I didn't see anything about a surrogate being experienced with having their own child(children) I tried picturing myself b eing pregnant for the first time having someone elses child..

    My bf doesn't want me to do this. He said that it would be hard deaing with the change and it not be our own child. I kind of understand what he's coming from. Also I just want to feel the experience before I have my own child. One thing I wonder about is if my..vagina will get big lol I nkow it sounds immature but I wonder.

    I have a normal sized cervix and well I'm with the only guy I ever had sex with so that could help.

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  • charli.m

    I couldn't do it, because I know I would become too emotionally invested in the child and it would kill me to give it to its parents (which, at least in Australia if I recall correctly, a surrogate is not legally obliged to do - she is the legal mother, even if the egg used to create the child was not hers).

    That being said, I worked for a family who used a surrogate for both their kids (and were intending a third when I left them) and I was just amazed by the gift she had given them. They were gay dads, so they really had no other option for (partially) biological children, and they were fantastic parents. This woman had given them that chance, and I think it was really selfless of her. She'd had two or three kids of her own.

    But pregnancy is a big strain on your body and emotions. You will have to take that into consideration. You've never had a child, so you don't know how you are likely to cope with that. I'm fairly sure they prefer (or even insist that) surrogates have had their own families already, partially because then they will know (to a degree) how the pregnancy will go, also that the surrogate can have a successful full term pregnancy, and also that, should anything go wrong and she is not able to have children after the pregnancy (it's rare, but it happens), that she has her own family, and is not left without.

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  • jocyjocy20

    I'm 20 and I'm sure I'm not the only woman in this world who thinks about that. My reson is not messed up, I need extra cash and to help someone who cannot have a child. That is how surrogacy work. They choose and pay the person that can have their child and they pay. And it's "maturity". not "mature".

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    • dirtybirdy

      So you're saying the sentence should be "you're not even close to maturity enough"?? Ok point proven. And its "reason" not "reson".
      I'm sure other women do think about it but money shouldn't be the 'thing you like most' about the whole idea. Like I said, its just my opinion, you don't have to agree with it.

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