For infertile couples this is another alternative to have a surrogate mother in India, and everyone seems to win from this as the surrogates make a substantial amount of money by India's standards and raises their standard of living as well...BD
ANAND, India — Every night in this quiet western India city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession of ballooned bellies.
A team of maids, cooks and doctors looks after the women, whose pregnancies would be unusual anywhere else but are common here. The young mothers of Anand, a place famous for its milk, are pregnant with the children of infertile couples from around the world.
The small clinic at Kaival Hospital matches infertile couples with local women, cares for the women during pregnancy and delivery and counsels them afterward. Anand’s surrogate mothers, pioneers in the growing field of outsourced pregnancies, have given birth to roughly 40 babies.
Ritu Sodhi, a furniture importer from Los Angeles who was born in India, spent $200,000 trying to get pregnant through in-vitro fertilization, and was considering spending another $80,000 to hire a surrogate mother in the United States.
“We were so desperate,” she said. “It was emotionally and financially exhausting.”
The State | 01/05/2008 | A fertile industry | In India, ‘wombs for rent’
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