Planned surrogacy in India is on the rise, with more and more western couples choosing Indian surrogates to have their babies. With surrogacy, infertile couples can finally have their own baby – something which could not even be dreamt of about two decades earlier.
1. Surrogacy in India – Realizing the Seemingly Faraway Parenthood
Dream
Chasing the dream of parenthood is not always easy – at least not for
everyone. Women who unsuccessfully try to become mothers often feel
that it is easy for every other woman to have a child but her. This is not
so. With our changing lifestyles and delayed family planning, both men
and women are increasingly facing the ugly realities of infertility. As the
shadow of infertility looms, people from all over the world look for
treatments and answers to their plight.
Surrogacy is one such answer that is a win-win situation for both the
potential parents and the surrogates. This rising phenomena, which has
become especially popular in the Indian subcontinent, has attracted
many a wishful couple. These couples travel to India with the hope of
finally realizing their dreams of becoming parents.
Surrogacy is a medical process in which a woman chooses to bear the
biological child of another couple, bringing the pregnancy to term in her
2. own womb and giving birth to someone else's child. While the
gestational surrogate, as the surrogate mother is usually called, does give
birth to the child, she has no biological or genetic ties to it. The couple
who may be infertile, offer their own eggs and sperms for in vitro
fertilization, and the resulting embryo is transferred into the womb of the
surrogate, who then carries the pregnancy to term.
This is a highly sought after procedure for women who have misshapen
or diseased wombs, and a history of miscarriages or failed IVF
treatments. Owing to the lax regulations, and the legal acceptance of this
treatment, surrogacy in India is not only acceptable but highly viable as
well. Apart from there being many healthy young women willing to be
surrogates, surrogacy in India is also viable because of its low costs.
Several clinics specialize in surrogacy treatments, and provide health
care and medical facilities, right from the collection of the eggs and
sperms, or arranging for donors, to the in vitro fertilization, the
identification and contractual hiring of a surrogate and the eventual
transfer of the embryo.
With the help of these clinics, patients can easily find healthy surrogates,
who are willing to have their baby. The IVF treatment and the transfers
are also relatively successful, and the entire process goes through
smoothly and with relative ease. For a growing number of American
women, for whom in vitro fertilization is no longer a viable infertility
treatment option, surrogacy in India offers a real chance of having their
own baby. Though this may inconvenience them slightly, as they would
have to make a few trips to India, or choose to stay here for the duration
of their surrogate's pregnancy, nothing can compare to the joy of finally
being able to have a baby.
Infertility is indeed a crippling and cruel disease that affects more
couples than ever before. Fortunately, with fertility treatments including
surrogacy, couples no longer have to forego the joy of becoming parents.
3. Summary
Planned surrogacy in India is on the rise, with more and more
western couples choosing Indian surrogates to have their babies.
With surrogacy, infertile couples can finally have their own baby –
something which could not even be dreamt of about two decades
earlier.
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