Would you be a surrogate mother?

I think I would be able to do this for a friend before I could do it for a stranger. I think knowing its not my child I would be able to handle giving the child to the friend and go away from this as doing something really good for a friend who couldn't have their own. I could always be the godmother and be satisfied with that especially after going thru having my own two girls.

Actually, too friends of mine asked me to do this for them.I was going to do it, but then I accidentally disclosed to a third friend that if I had a baby, there is a strong likelihood that my spine would break since it is already curved. Then my two friends said they would find someone else. They were upset with me for not disclosing the details with them first. I hope they're over this as I will be seeing them in just 3 weeks.

I couldn't do it. There is no way I'd carry a baby for nine months only to hand it over for someone else to raise. I'd wonder why the couple can't just adopt a child on their own without having to resort to surrogacy. Plus, no matter if I agreed to to it and did do it, I'd still feel like a piece of meat, good for nothing than to give babies to other people.

I have thought about that in the past.. but I came to a point where i realized i really couldn't do it... there's too much to sacrifice... I don't think I can.

It is something that I might have considered before I had children and before I knew what it was like to carry a child inside of you for nine months. I really thinkk it would be the most difficult thing in a world because you feel like you know your child. I couldn't imagine not seeing my baby every day or not getting to kiss his little baby head! It would be too hard.

I don't think I could be a surrogate. I'm 9 months pregnant now and am having a difficult pregnancy. I don't think I would want to endure this much pain and discomfort and not reep the benefits. I'm also a Nanny, so I see daily how I impact a childs life. Its beautiful watch the growth of a child you've nurtured. Being the ONLY provider for a child for 9 months and suddenly having NO contact or input in their life would be a transition I don't think I could handle.

Hi sender621, I think i can't do being a surrogate mother. That's hard or me, even the couple will give all the support and pays me lots of money, i wouldn't do it. It's your own baby, you carried it for nine months and then after you give birth, you give it to somebody's else,babies were not like puppies that you can give it to anybody. Happy myloting.

At my age now, they would never consider me to be a surrogate mother candidate - ha ha!! But in all seriousness, I don't think I can do it. I have a second child a long the way . . . having a life inside my tummy is all too special . . . and I couldn't bear to part with it after giving birth. But I think the women who feel they can do it have a different mind set. I saw a program on tv where this young mother had 3 of her own children . . . and she felt she had this gift of being able to bear children easily so she actually wanted to be able to share this gift with a family who could not. Wow! She thought of it as a physical "talent". And as she had 3 kids of her own . . . she and her husband did not want any more children . . . so she could somehow be "unattached" to the baby inside her. I think the egg and sperm were from the other family . . . and the surrogate mother was indeed just the protective case in which to grow a child . . . so she didn't feel attached biologically speaking. My hats off to women who can help other families like that!! But me, no amount of money could make me do it. I'd be too emotional attached about it all.