In pink: Anjuman Salimkhan Pathan, 30, is a hindu who married a muslim man (love marriage), and is carrying a baby for an American couple who are ethnically Indian. "What i'm doing is a sin in Islam but I'm very poor and we have 3 children. We also want our own house.... My stomach has been cut once so how does it matter to be cut a second time?"..In yellow: Indu Ben Dasrathbhai Pawar (Also photographed in ultrasound room) "There is a fear about health... then we think that its in Gods hands and pray that its a smooth pregnancy"...Bottom : Vasanthi Ashokbhai Rohit, 24, is carrying an NRI's baby.."You do have an affection for the baby because it's just inherent in maternal nature but its not difficult to part with it because we know in advance that we're doing it for money. Howsoever hard we work, we won't be able to earn USD6000 anywhere else in 1 year."..Women lounge around the surrogate house for their entire term of pregnancy while posters of babies and religious symbols adorn the walls together with calendars that they often use to count their days to the end of their terms. The women come to the house with just a small bag of clothes as everything else is provided for in the house...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India, is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surrogate houses.
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