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Gestational surrogacy

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Gestational surrogacy is where a woman carries a baby for an individual or couple who provide the eggs and sperm – the baby is not the biological child of the surrogate. In this clip from a 2007 television documentary Sherilee Randle talks about how she decided to become a surrogate mother for Karen and Jeff Hill.

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Rhonda Shaw, Infertility and childlessness – Overcoming infertility, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/27424/gestational-surrogacy (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Rhonda Shaw, published 23 March 2011.