Debbie, this does not mean that the surrogate mother wants time with the child. The surrogate mother wants to spend time with the couple she helped become parents. Surrogacy is about the relationship and giving a most wonderful gift to her couple. Most agencies will help childless couples and couples with a child. However, to match a couple that already has two or three children is extremely difficult.
Most surrogate mothers have a fantasy of helping a young infertile couple with no children.
However, they also understand that some couples will want more than they can have on their own. Then it is time to consider surrogacy. However, I would now recommend to couples that at least one or two of those tries be a cycle where the embryos are allowed to develop to blastacyst stage. Denali, I wish you the very best. If anyone has follow-up questions for Karen, be sure to post them on the Third Party Reproduction bulletin board.