gestational. In traditional surrogacy, the woman’s own egg is artificially inseminated, making her the biological mother of the child she carries.
Traditional surrogacy is generally disfavored due to the legal and emotional complexities involved. In gestational surrogacy, a child is created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) using the gametes of the buyers or third parties, and then implanted into the surrogate.
A gestational surrogate is not biologically related to the child she carries.
Gabby ends her instagram message with a song that sums up how she feels looking at her new baby:
When I wake up in the mornin’ love
And the sunlight hurts my