Surrogacy to get maternity leave and pay?

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Light hearted and kind of a bit of snark at my company....
But they pay a good chunk of salary whilst on maternity leave and I didn't qualify with my first unplanned by a couple of days.... Needed to be at the company for three months only.

Anyway, would I be unreasonable to be a surrogate for someone and get a year paid of work?

Hmmm

Errr, yes. Unless you are morally and ethically bankrupt.

Well no women who has been pregnant should be forced back to work until they have to recovered. Tbh how many surrogates would be working a job with good maternity package?
According to Google only about 200 uk surrogates give birth each year

Surrogacy should be abolished.

Let me guess, you have children

Don't know...

Why wouldn't they?

Maybe I'll contact that gay couple who have just have two surrogates... Ask how much they paid their "friends"

I mean giving the benefit of the doubt on this rage bait.

You could but is it worth it? Rather than just being angry you missed out.

It’s irrelevant whether that poster has six children or is unhappily childless. Surrogacy is ethically indefensible.

Absolutely. Totally unethical.

I would read the fine print on your maternity leave package first

I couldn’t go through all that for a year off work.
What about complications like incontinence or prolapse?Post natal depression?
Yeah that’s a big risk I would only take if I could hold and keep my child after.

Edited to add I have 4 children

Pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum carry a huge amount of risk, and come at a huge personal cost, absolutely not justifiable to me for a year off work.

I have 1 child. I feel for couples who cannot have children, but I believe a child deserves to know his or her mother and father. This trumps any adults want for a child.

I don’t understand this. Why so strident? I’d definitely consider being a surrogate for a close friend if they weren’t able to have kids. Can’t see why that would be unethical.

I’d move to the civil service if your being serious about this, a much better maternity pay by miles.

It’s hardly ‘strident’ to point out the ethical difficulties in creating and carrying a baby specifically in order to remove it from its mother at birth.

OP you'll never manage a light hearted thread on this topic.

Don't the surrogate job come with a package?
It's a job. I would expect the parents to pay for a recovery period as it has nothing to do with maternity leave as you have no child to look after.

You want to undergo a high risk pregnancy, increasing your risk of many conditions including death for the sake of 9 months of statutory maternity pay? Ok

Not in the UK, that's illegal

I have very very mixed feelings about surrogacy. Familial of friendship (talked through with counselling- fine) paid, never ever ever

Can you claim maternity leave not having a newborn to look after? Should the surrogate's husband also have leave?

Good. Human trafficking should never be a light hearted topic.

Go ahead see if its worth it

Report back

You would only get maternity leave for the compulsory 6 weeks post birth then have to return to work as you would be selling your baby at birth. Mat leave is for you to care for the baby.

Mistake