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Being a surrogate

2025/2/24
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Ladies, We Need To Talk
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Explore the motivations and emotional journey of women who choose to become surrogates and the impact of altruistic surrogacy in Australia.
  • Surrogates often need significant emotional support.
  • Surrogacy in Australia is altruistic, meaning surrogates cannot be paid.
  • Most surrogacy arrangements in Australia are between family and friends.

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What's it like to carry and give birth to a child for someone else? What compels a woman to take on something so profound? There's more to surrogacy than cooking a bun in an 'oven', it's complex as hell.

In this episode Yumi Stynes meets women who have been surrogates and hears about the joy and the heartache the experience can bring.