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Gabrielle Union announced yesterday that she and Dwyane Wade had become parents to a little baby girl.
Fans were excited for the couple, who had kept the pregnancy private. In an emotional message to fans, she revealed their newborn arrived via surrogate — but what does that mean?
Traditional and Gestational surrogates
There are two kinds of surrogates: traditional surrogate and a gestational surrogate. Both are used when a hopeful mom-to-be has trouble getting pregnant.
A traditional surrogate sees a second woman — the “surrogate” — become naturally or artificially inseminated with the father’s sperm or sperm from a donor while she’s ovulating.
She then carries the baby to term, and it is the surrogate’s egg that is used.
