How can women use their frozen embryos if their uterus has been damaged or removed?

There are circumstances where the patient, ultimately, is not able to have the embryos transplanted back into her body because her uterus has either been surgically removed or in some other way has been damaged by the treatment that was used to cure her cancer.

In these circumstances it is still possible for the patient and her mate to use the embryos by having them transferred to someone else, who is referred to as a gestational carrier; someone who can become pregnant with the embryos, who can grow the baby, and then give the baby back to the parents.

Gestational carriers are of two types. On some occasions they are related to the patient, and these are very positive arrangements that create whole new relationships within families, but more often than not, such a relative isn’t available and then gestational carriers are found generally through agencies who are paid to serve as gestational carriers.