American Jennifer (center, blond), 38, chats with other surrogacy clients as they wait in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. Jennifer wants to try surrogacy after 5 unexplained failed pregnancies, "I would go and pick a baby up from the street, which I wouldn't really but that's the kind of desperation that comes from infertility.".
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 for Panos London