Can I be a surrogate mother for my older brother?

Do you know if it'd be possible for me to be a surrogate for my older, single brother? I have not had children before and am single, but I'm also not ready for children of my own. My brother desperately wants children. We are very close friends, and I look up to him and KNOW he would be an excellent father!! I am confident I'd have no problems giving up my child to my brother. And I would still be a part of his/her life; just as an aunty instead of a mom. Is this legal and even possible??? We are both mature, professional adults who have been unlucky in finding "the one". He is 35. I am 31.

Reply by Rayven

If you have not had children of your own, then no, you may not become a surrogate mother.

Also, there are a few ways in which you word things in this question that I need to clarify. First, assuming she has already had children, a woman is able to become a GESTATIONAL surrogate for a sibling but she may under no circumstances become a TRADITIONAL surrogate.

If you were to become a surrogate for your brother, assuming that you had already had children, then since your brother is single he would need an egg donor. Then you could carry his child, and the child of the anonymous donor.

You could NOT carry a child that was related to you and him. That would be incest (even if artificial insemination was used).

I'm clarifying this because you say "my" child. A surrogate baby never belongs to the surrogate mother. The babies are not ours; we do not give them up. We simply take care of them until they are ready to go home to their parents, and then we give them back.

Hope this helps!

Best wishes!