A woman who has a fertilized egg from another woman implanted in her womb, so as to bear a child on behalf of the other woman.
she recently offered to be a gestational carrier for her sister
their little boy, born via gestational carrier, weighed 7 pounds and 4 ounces
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- It is said that the couple are planning to use the same gestational carrier for baby number 2.
- This embryo is then introduced into the womb of a surrogate mother or gestational carrier.
- She struggled to conceive, so turned to a gestational carrier.
- Egg donor mares need to be at the same point in their reproductive cycle as gestational carriers.
- Gestational carriers have no genetic relation to the baby.