Human Incubators

or; surrogate mothers?

Published on July 11, 2006 By SanChonino In Misc

So I had come home for lunch, and was just about to head back to work, when my little sister turned on the TV to one of the soapies, Days of Our Lives. I guess there're some characters on there that want to have a child and seem to be unable, so they are having their fertilized egg implanted in the uterus of another woman.

It got me to thinking. Why would someone volunteer to carry the child of another?

Talk about noble. But I just don't quite get surrogate mothering. Adoption . . . I get. It's the reason I have two little sisters instead of the family just ending with me. But with both of them, it was a case of their parents not being ready or capable of caring for their child, so they willingly gave them up to a family that could take care of them.

But as a surrogate mother, you're being implanted with the fertilized egg of another woman. (In other words, you get none of the fun parts that come with the babymaking process . . .

Then you are essentially a baby incubator until the child is ready to be taken from you - not your child, remember, and given to the egg-donating parents.

Like I said, noble, I suppose. but I can't figure out why the hell anyone would be willing to go to all that effort. Maybe I just don't get it - if someone here does, please enlighten a poor unfortunate soul.

But what do any of you think about surrogate motherhood?

Comments (Page 2)

Sally jacobs

on Jul 11, 2006

That is the general connotation when people speak of those our age, isn't it, Sal?

It sure is, to be fair many people our age give people reason to feel that way about us. I guess some of us are just lucky enough to be the exception!

SanChonino

on Jul 11, 2006

I guess some of us are just lucky enough to be the exception!

That's the truth if I ever heard it before . . .

Plus, I never pass up a chance to break out the "flipping the bird" smiley.

That is one in a million, bro . . . you should bust it out on some of the wackier articles on here more often . . .

Texas Wahine

on Jul 11, 2006

Some women REALLY REALLY enjoy pregnancy and have very healthy, successful pregnancies.

I lean in that direction (barring the morning sickness, ugh).

A woman who enjoys pregnancy is satisfied with the size of her own family might really love to experience pregnancy and childbirth again. Although I have a hard time wrapping my head around being able to give up the child you've nourished in your womb.

I don't think it's always a selfish, money-grubbing move. (I don't know if you guys all realize what the process entails, but the the pain, exhaustion, etc., involved in getting the pregnancy going is worth A LOT OF COMPENSATION.)

SanChonino

on Jul 11, 2006

I don't think it's always a selfish, money-grubbing move. (I don't know if you guys all realize what the process entails, but the the pain, exhaustion, etc., involved in getting the pregnancy going is worth A LOT OF COMPENSATION.)

Thanks for your comment, Tex. Even most of the moms who have commented have not been able to explain it this thoroughly. I personally think it would be a righteous pain in the ASS to have another child for someone else. But again, grateful for adoption, even when the little sisters are at their most annoying.

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