A quart is 2 pints. A pint is sixteen fluid ounces of water and weighs about 16 ounces (avoirdupois weight.) A gallon is 4 quarts (8 pints) and thus weighs about 8 pounds. Five gallons would be about 40 pounds.
In some cases, if your mother is on Medicaid, she can designate you as her personal home care aide and you can get paid a small amount through Medicaid. If your mother has her own resources, you can draw up a contract agreeing to work as her home health aide and she can pay you a salary that you both agree upon.
Surrogate Mother Compensation. Surrogate mother compensation varies case to case. Typically a surrogate motherâs fee will range from $35,000 to $40,000 plus expenses, depending on experience. We ask that surrogate mothers realize the more reasonable their requested compensation, the sooner they will be matched.