Surrogate Motherhood: Redefining the Modern Family [INSIGHTS] | Elite Daily

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This Mother’s Day, let’s give a heartfelt shoutout to all of the surrogates who have stepped forward to give the gift of family. The concept of incubating a human life in your body and then giving it away to someone else was difficult for me to grasp at first — this idea of the severance of the primordial bond between mother and child. And that’s one issue the people who protest surrogacy claim in their arguments. I also didn’t realize that a woman could have a baby who was not at all genetically related her. This is called gestational surrogacy, a common type of surrogacy that women enter. Jenna Mancuso is a 30-year-old dental assistant from Pennsylvania who lives with her husband, Phil, and her three kids. She recently gave birth to twin babies for an intended father, Michael Oppedisano, who is a dentist living in Texas. Jenna was a gestational surrogate, “Gestational surrogacy uses In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) to create an embryo using the ova/eggs from the prospective mother or donor and sperm from the father or donor that is then implanted in a surrogate.” Jenna describes the feeling of disassociation, “It’s a total disconnect, like the ultrasounds. I look at them and think ‘aww they’re cute’ but not like how it is emotional when it’s your own baby and it’s so amazing and like ‘oh my God it’s my baby on the screen!'” Jenna and her husband, Phil, decided to go into surrogacy after Jenna was “feeling the urge to be pregnant again.” Jenna freely admits she enjoys the pregnancy and that the process comes easily for her. The sad reality is that many people struggle with infertility and this is a way surrogates can give back. Read the full article here: http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/surrogacy-redefining-means-mother/1482114/ Subscribe now for more videos from Elite Daily: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=elitedaily Check out more Insights from Elite Daily: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crxmVTFRuTA&index;=1&list;=PLidTvIp4b7EF2_A6DCUgVugXWzJxovCBW Producer: Amanda Goscinski, Terence MF Thomas Director of Photography: Terence MF Thomas Camera Operator: Grace Ferrara Assistant Editor: Grace Ferrara Editor: Kevin Losani Senior Motion Graphics: Oliver Dudman Motion Graphics: Sergio Calderon, Grace Ferrara Post Production Supervisor: Evan D. Newman Senior Producer, Insights: Kevin Losani Executive Producer, Elite Daily: Tyler Gildin Music Courtesy of Extreme Music: “Simple Life” Written by Gemma Hayes “Light Club” Written by Oswin Mackintosh “Clean Sheets” Written by Billie Ray Fingers, Bruce Fingers, and Daniel Suett “Little Chimes” Written by Rachel Wood, Stefano Ruggeri, and Tony Morely http://www.elitedaily.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EliteDaily/videos?ref=page_internal Twitter: http://twitter.com/EliteDaily Instagram: http://instagram.com/elitedaily G+: https://plus.google.com/+elitedaily What is Elite Daily? We proclaim ourselves to be the voice of Generation-Y and never disappoint. As the premier online destination for aspiring men and women alike, Elite offers a forum of peer-to-peer interaction in an increasingly digitalized world. The site consistently delivers diverse content with a fresh, relevant voice that appeals to the divergent perspectives represented within our ADD generation. For all video inquiries contact: VideoContact @ elitedaily.com http://www.youtube.com/elitedaily