Surrogacy carries higher risk of pregnancy and postpartum complications, Canadian study finds
Canadian research analysing more than 863,000 births over almost a decade, including 806 surrogacy deliveries, concluded that the risk of severe maternal morbidity was 7.8% in gestational carriers, more than three times the risk of conception without assisted reproductive techniques and almost twice the risk in IVF pregnancies. The three most frequent complications were severe postpartum haemorrhage, severe pre-eclampsia and puerperal sepsis. The study is published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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