Will the baby look like the surrogate mother?

Will the baby look like the surrogate mother?

All people who have decided to opt for surrogacy treatment ask fertility specialists that will the baby look like the surrogate mother or will not? This is one the most important issues for intended parents that want to know. Most of the patients especially those who have grown up in a traditional family or society, decide not to declare the technique of treatment that they have chosen to solve their infertility problem.

Many people do not have enough and correct information about the surrogacy treatment and its types so they may consider the child as illegitimate.

For these reasons the intended parents worry about the appearance of the child and they consider who does the baby look like, the surrogate mother or the intended parents?

Of course, this is normal that they consider these questions. But, if you have had enough knowledge and information about surrogacy treatment and its types, you can find correct answers.

If you don’t have enough information, don’t worry at all, you can get more information about surrogacy treatment by reading the following articles:

• What is the most popular type of surrogacy?
• For whom surrogate mother is the best choice?
• The chance of having twins with surrogacy
• Surrogacy in Iran

We are planning to explore the factors that affect the similarities between the surrogate mother and the child.

So we suggest you read this article carefully.

Will the baby look like the surrogate mother?

Actually, the similarities between the surrogate mother and the child depend on the techniques that you or your fertility specialist opts for your treatment.

Some questions about genetics and DNA, blood, appearance, and parentage may occupy the mind of the intended parents.

Primarily, patients may think the child looks like the surrogate mother as they might be related to each other by genetic or blood relationships.

We consider these two factors clearly. So please follow the rest of the article.

Genetic Relationships

Genetic relationships can always effect on moral and physical characteristics of the baby. The child inherits the moral and physical characteristics of someone that sperm and egg belong to them.

In other words, if the sperm and the egg belong to the intended parents, the child will share genetics and DNA with his/her parents.

As we know, there are two types of surrogacy treatment. In traditional surrogacy that is less common nowadays, the surrogate mother acts as the carrier and the egg donor, the child may look like the surrogate mother. In this technique, the surrogate mother is the genetic mother of the baby. Therefore, it is normal that the child does not look like the intended mother.

But in gestational surrogacy, the surrogate mother just carries the child during pregnancy and does not donate eggs. Then the embryos are transferred to the uterus of the surrogate mother’s after in vitro fertilization (IVF).

So there will not be any similarities between the child and the surrogate mother. Actually, the surrogate mother acts as a host that the child will grow and thrive for nine months.

In few types of gestational surrogacy, the child might inherit traits of someone who provide him/her sperm or egg. But in most types of gestational surrogacy, it is impossible for the child to share DNA with the surrogate mother because the intended parents provide sperms and eggs to make embryos.

Blood Relationships

This is true that the child and the surrogate mother are related to each other by the umbilical cord to provide oxygen, nutrients, and blood to the child.

But, it does not mean there is a blood group relationship between the child and the surrogate mother.

So we observe many surrogate mothers who have different blood group than the baby.

We also just consider the relationships between the child and the surrogate mother’s blood group depending on different types of surrogacy.

In most cases, the surrogate mother just carries the child during pregnancy period so the blood group is not shared to the child.

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