I need to thank the Surrogacy Australia website for this research article, confirming that parents who've had children through surrogacy, experience less parental stress and fathers are more involved in their children's parenting when compared to those naturally concevied.
I like the thought that, after surviving surrogacy, nothing else is hard - not even a two year old's full of tantrums.
I know that after doing everything possible to have our children, we treasure every moment. I feel like an idiot to admit this, but i still have the odd nightmares where Max & Lily are just a dream, I wake up and panic, listenng for noise that will deny the truth of my nightmare and have on one occassion walked into their room and woke them up, just to hear them.
The article "Focusing on parental and child outcomes for two year olds" can be found here: http://www.surrogacyaustralia.org/download/researchCenter/IntendingParentAndChildOutcomes/Golombok%202006%20Surrogacy%20families%20parental%20functioning,%20parent%20child%20relationships%20and%20childrens%20psych%20development%20at%20age%202.pdf
the abstract states:
"The surrogacy mothers showed more positive parent–child relationships, and the surrogacy fathers reported lower levels of parenting stress, than their natural conception counterparts. The surrogacy children did not differ from the natural conception children with respect to socio-emotional or cognitive development. Conclusions: Surrogacy does not appear to impact negatively on parenting or child development in families with 2-year-old children."
Further articles : "Families Created Through Surrogacy Arrangements: Parent–Child Relationships in the 1st Year of Life", have shown ' greater psychological well-being and adaptation to parenthood by mothers and fathers of children born through surrogacy arrangements than by the natural-conception parents' &"Non-genetic and non-gestational parenthood: consequences for parent-child relationships and the psychological well-being of methers, fathers and children at age 3" - tell us that ' higher levels of warmth and interaction between mothers and their 3-year-old children in assisted reproduction families than in families with a naturally conceived .' All found here: http://www.surrogacyaustralia.org/summaries-of-literature/intending-parent-child-outcomes
Enjoy
PS Next blog will be full of Max & Lily goodness
I like the thought that, after surviving surrogacy, nothing else is hard - not even a two year old's full of tantrums.
I know that after doing everything possible to have our children, we treasure every moment. I feel like an idiot to admit this, but i still have the odd nightmares where Max & Lily are just a dream, I wake up and panic, listenng for noise that will deny the truth of my nightmare and have on one occassion walked into their room and woke them up, just to hear them.
The article "Focusing on parental and child outcomes for two year olds" can be found here: http://www.surrogacyaustralia.org/download/researchCenter/IntendingParentAndChildOutcomes/Golombok%202006%20Surrogacy%20families%20parental%20functioning,%20parent%20child%20relationships%20and%20childrens%20psych%20development%20at%20age%202.pdf
the abstract states:
"The surrogacy mothers showed more positive parent–child relationships, and the surrogacy fathers reported lower levels of parenting stress, than their natural conception counterparts. The surrogacy children did not differ from the natural conception children with respect to socio-emotional or cognitive development. Conclusions: Surrogacy does not appear to impact negatively on parenting or child development in families with 2-year-old children."
Further articles : "Families Created Through Surrogacy Arrangements: Parent–Child Relationships in the 1st Year of Life", have shown ' greater psychological well-being and adaptation to parenthood by mothers and fathers of children born through surrogacy arrangements than by the natural-conception parents' &"Non-genetic and non-gestational parenthood: consequences for parent-child relationships and the psychological well-being of methers, fathers and children at age 3" - tell us that ' higher levels of warmth and interaction between mothers and their 3-year-old children in assisted reproduction families than in families with a naturally conceived .' All found here: http://www.surrogacyaustralia.org/summaries-of-literature/intending-parent-child-outcomes
Enjoy
PS Next blog will be full of Max & Lily goodness
Isn't this good news to know that the children grow up with no socio or psychological issues. Really, what is the difference? As long as you love your children, there is no difference whether they are born through surrogacy or through conventional means. its a very thorough report from the UK, yet surrogacy has become even more popular since the report was published. Thank you Margarida for finding this.
ReplyDeleteGreat article - thanks for sharing this. I am sure alot of us think of this in the back of our head. Thanks again, K&J
ReplyDeleteI feel the exact same way-I treasure every moment with my son and thank God everyday. We all have had this dream for so many years and now to know it is reality puts one on a whole different level.
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