PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIENCES OF THE REQUESTING MOTHER FOR RENTING WOMBS

Desire to have children is one of the basic human needs. Historically, fertility and child bearing and the number of children have been consideredas asocial value. Of course, in fertility always has been a problem for human beings and they have sought different ways for treat ment. One of the most recent assisted reproductive technologies is surrogacy. In this way, after fertilization of sper mandovum, the embryo is transferred in to the alternative womb for 9 months and after birth, the baby is delivered to the real parents. For this purpose, research erssought to understand the meaning and experience of the phenomen on of surrogacy. This qualitative study was done with a phenomenological approach and based on purposive sampling. So, deep and un structure dinter views were carried out with ten requesting mothers of surrogacy who referred to Esfahan fertility and in fertility center, and mothers expressed their experiences in this field. The data obtained from these in terviews were analyzed using 7-step Colaizzi, and five main themes were extracted in cluding: "Cause of action",” Relation of requesting mother with Surrogate Mother ", "family", "decision making" and "worries and concerns". The data of this study could provide a better understanding of the experiences of surrogacy requesting mothers.