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Ganesh visits his wife Diksha as she lies in her shared surrogate's room on the 3rd floor of the Akanksha Infertility Clinic, Anand, Gujarat, India...Clockwise: Ganesh Gurunja, 28 (yellow, top left); Diksha Gurunja, 28 (top right); 2 boys, 11 and 8 (below).Nepali couple based in Anand, Gujarat..- Ganesh is a merchant operator and earns Rs. 6,000-7,000 a month but is not working right now. He's taking care of the kids and home while Diksha is pregnant with her second surrogacy..- The education expenses of the children are alone Rs. 20,000 a year. .- They used to rent a three-bedroom apt. for Rs. 2,000 per month, which they bought for Rs. 3.5 lakhs with money from Diksha's first surrogacy..- Both the surrogacies were for Japanese couples...Quotes."You have to lose something to gain something. And what we gain is a lot more than what we lose. For nine months we live like this away from family but with the money, we could get his [Ganesh's] kidney stone operation done, buy a house, a bike, send children to English-medium schools, and eat, wear and sleep well. There are no problems now." - Diksha..The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses. .Photo by Suzanne Lee

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Ganesh visits his wife Diksha as she lies in her shared surrogate's room on the 3rd floor of the Akanksha Infertility Clinic, Anand, Gujarat, India...Clockwise: Ganesh Gurunja, 28 (yellow, top left); Diksha Gurunja, 28 (top right); 2 boys, 11 and 8 (below).Nepali couple based in Anand, Gujarat..- Ganesh is a merchant operator and earns Rs. 6,000-7,000 a month but is not working right now. He's taking care of the kids and home while Diksha is pregnant with her second surrogacy..- The education expenses of the children are alone Rs. 20,000 a year. .- They used to rent a three-bedroom apt. for Rs. 2,000 per month, which they bought for Rs. 3.5 lakhs with money from Diksha's first surrogacy..- Both the surrogacies were for Japanese couples...Quotes."You have to lose something to gain something. And what we gain is a lot more than what we lose. For nine months we live like this away from family but with the money, we could get his [Ganesh's] kidney stone operation done, buy a house, a bike, send children to English-medium schools, and eat, wear and sleep well. There are no problems now." - Diksha..The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses. .Photo by Suzanne Lee