New research data has revealed that a woman was more likely to have a high-risk pregnancy when acting as a surrogate rather than when she becomes pregnant naturally.

The paper “A Comparison of Surrogate Pregnancies and Spontaneous Pregnancies” by Jennifer Lahl, Kallie Fell and others was carried in the peer-reviewed journal, ‘Dignity’.

A surrogate pregnancy had three times higher odds of resulting in a cesarean section and was five times more likely to deliver at an earlier gestational age.

Women in this study were significantly more likely to experience postpartum depression following the delivery of surrogate children than after delivering their non-surrogate children, and overall, they were more likely to have adverse outcomes during a surrogate pregnancy.