Surrogacy used to be morally incorrect and socially strange. Now it's a standard method of making individuals reproduce in most countries. Couples and individuals get an actual chance at parenting with the help of surrogacy, especially couples who deal with issues like infertility, same-sex parenting or genetic flaws. Regardless of the increasing acceptance, no one talks or understands the emotional and psychological challenges that a surrogate mother faces. There are many conversations around the legality of the process, contracts, and medical specificity, but very little emphasis on the psychological experience of the surrogate mother, especially how she deals with the formation and management of attachment with the developing baby. This paper fills that gap by applying John Bowlby's attachment theory (1969, 1973, 1980), that early caregiver relationships create internal working models that influence emotional control and relational behaviours across the lifespan. For surrogate mothers, this allows examining…