Question about surrogacy for anyone who knows?

[nikki1978]

Is it possible to be a host surrogate without having to have any hormone treatment yourself? If your husband has been sterilised so their is no chance of accidental pregnancy?

It is medically possible but you do leave yourself open to the whims of nature, at times of stress (and surrogacy is stressful) the menstrual cycle can get a bit squiffy. It is very easy as a surrogate to feel responsible for how your body reacts, even when you actually have no control on it, I know I did.

It is also highly advisable to have the embryos already created and frozen as timing their creation to fit an uncontrolled cycle is difficult in the extreme.

Often an un-medicated cycle will require more frequent scans and blood tests (sometimes mroe than one a day) to time the cycle right so it is useful to use a very local clinic if you can.

Fair enough. My cycle is very regular so that may go in my favour. This is just hypothetical at the moment but wanted to find out. I wouldn't be happy to do it with all the hormones and I don't want to offer something then change my mind!

Hi yes.
I had a surro babe just a few weeks ago and i was a host surrogate on a natural cycle.This means i only had one injection to take through the whole process(i gave this to myself at home)The injection was just to sustain ovulation.
Wishing you lots of luck!x

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Nicki do you mind telling me a bit more about your plans? I'm seriously considering offering to act as a surrogate myself for a lovely couple I know. I know they have had treatment with no luck so far but they don't talk about it much, its obviously a very sensitive subject and I just don't know how to bring it up. I don't know if they'd even consider surrogacy or what stage they are at with their treatment so I don't want to just blunder straight in there and start offering to do it in case I offend them. Has someone asked you straight out or are you thinking about offering? I don't plan to say anything yet and am praying for their treatment to work but would really appreciate any advice about what to say to them and when. I have thought a lot about it and I know I could do it, I feel truly blessed that I managed to conceive my ds with no problems at all and just feel so awful for them

Bumping for anyone who may know the answer to this one!