Surrogacy In India With Dr Sanjay Gupta III | Medical Tourism
The three childless couples sitting in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic waiting room greet each other politely, almost wearily. Strangers on a foreign land, they have only just met, but there seems to be a telepathic understanding to each other’s plight as they begin to share their experiences and the circumstances that led them on the path to surrogacy.
Joe and Susan (not their real names), a Californian couple of Korean descent, shift about nervously in their armchairs. Both 37 years of ag
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Her husband, a college consultant, explained their situation: “We’ve been married for 11 years and that’s a lot of time trying to have a baby. We’ve already busted US$100,000…it’s frustrating because it seems we are exhausting all our options.
“About December 2007, we came across a newspaper article ment
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ioning surrogacy, and I started to do research on it. Then I ‘Googled’ and found a bunch of places. After a period of e-mail correspondence with Dr Nayna Patel and a short wait for available surrogates, here we are.”
Susan elaborated: “Of the four surrogate mothers who were matched up to us, we chose a widow who really needs the money for the family. Her husband died a year ago from cancer and she has three kids — 14, nine and five — so they’re really young. I feel for them.