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What's it really like to be a surrogate?

2025/2/24
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Ladies, We Need To Talk
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This chapter explores the motivations and emotions behind women choosing to become surrogates, highlighting both the challenges and rewards of the experience.
  • Surrogates often need emotional support, akin to a grueling journey.
  • In Australia, surrogacy is altruistic, meaning surrogates can't be paid.
  • About 130-150 babies are born via surrogacy in Australia each year.
  • Surrogacy arrangements are mainly between family or friends, but 20% meet online.

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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.