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Emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: A qualitative study
Background: Surrogacy is one of the new techniques of assisted reproduction technology in which a woman carries and bears a child for another woman. In Iran, many Shia clerics and jurists considered it permissible so there is no religious prohibition for it. In addition to the risk of physical compl...
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Research and Clinical Center for Infertility
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25114669 |
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author | Ahmari Tehran, Hoda Tashi, Shohreh Mehran, Nahid Eskandari, Narges Dadkhah Tehrani, Tahmineh |
author_facet | Ahmari Tehran, Hoda Tashi, Shohreh Mehran, Nahid Eskandari, Narges Dadkhah Tehrani, Tahmineh |
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description | Background: Surrogacy is one of the new techniques of assisted reproduction technology in which a woman carries and bears a child for another woman. In Iran, many Shia clerics and jurists considered it permissible so there is no religious prohibition for it. In addition to the risk of physical complications for complete surrogate mothers, the possibility of psychological complications resulted from emotional attachment to a living creature in the surrogate mother as another injury requires counseling and assessment prior to acceptance by infertile couples and complete surrogate mothers. Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the emotional experiences of surrogate mothers. Materials and Methods: This was a qualitative, phenomenological study. We selected eight complete surrogate mothers in Isfahan. We used convenient sampling method and in-depth interview to collect the information. The data analysis was fulfilled via Colaizzi’s seven-stage method. Reliability and validity study of the roots in the four-axis was done. Results: The findings of these interviews were classified into two main themes and four sub themes: acquired experiences in pregnancy (feelings toward pregnancy, relationship with family, relatives and commissioning couple) and consequences of surrogacy (complications of pregnancy, religious and financial problems of surrogacy). Conclusion: Surrogacy pregnancy should be considered as high-risk emotional experience because many of surrogate mothers may face negative experiences. Therefore, it is recommended that surrogates should receive professional counseling prior to, during and following pregnancy. |
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spelling | pubmed-41262512014-08-11 Emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: A qualitative study Ahmari Tehran, Hoda Tashi, Shohreh Mehran, Nahid Eskandari, Narges Dadkhah Tehrani, Tahmineh Iran J Reprod Med Original Article Background: Surrogacy is one of the new techniques of assisted reproduction technology in which a woman carries and bears a child for another woman. In Iran, many Shia clerics and jurists considered it permissible so there is no religious prohibition for it. In addition to the risk of physical complications for complete surrogate mothers, the possibility of psychological complications resulted from emotional attachment to a living creature in the surrogate mother as another injury requires counseling and assessment prior to acceptance by infertile couples and complete surrogate mothers. Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the emotional experiences of surrogate mothers. Materials and Methods: This was a qualitative, phenomenological study. We selected eight complete surrogate mothers in Isfahan. We used convenient sampling method and in-depth interview to collect the information. The data analysis was fulfilled via Colaizzi’s seven-stage method. Reliability and validity study of the roots in the four-axis was done. Results: The findings of these interviews were classified into two main themes and four sub themes: acquired experiences in pregnancy (feelings toward pregnancy, relationship with family, relatives and commissioning couple) and consequences of surrogacy (complications of pregnancy, religious and financial problems of surrogacy). Conclusion: Surrogacy pregnancy should be considered as high-risk emotional experience because many of surrogate mothers may face negative experiences. Therefore, it is recommended that surrogates should receive professional counseling prior to, during and following pregnancy. Research and Clinical Center for Infertility 2014-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4126251/ /pubmed/25114669 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Ahmari Tehran, Hoda Tashi, Shohreh Mehran, Nahid Eskandari, Narges Dadkhah Tehrani, Tahmineh Emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: A qualitative study |
title | Emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: A qualitative study |
title_full | Emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: A qualitative study |
title_fullStr | Emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: A qualitative study |
title_full_unstemmed | Emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: A qualitative study |
title_short | Emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: A qualitative study |
title_sort | emotional experiences in surrogate mothers: a qualitative study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25114669 |
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