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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, tends to a phone call as she dictates her email answers to her assistant in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients pour into Anand from across the world pursuing Dr Patel's expertise on the process, and they keep in touch with her and the progress of the pregnancies via the internet and phone. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates try out 2nd hand maternity dresses when a salesman brings them to the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (left) chats with other doctors as she waits for the next operation after performing a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pose for a photograph in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time doing embroidery and watching television in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A doctor works on genetic material in the lab after an IVF egg retrieval in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A surrogate poses for a photograph in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A surrogate passes her time chatting on her mobile phone in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana, an ex-surrogate, looks into her accounts, as she continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff, which she prepares in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, performs an IVF egg retrieval on a patient in her Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (right) performs a laproscopy operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A client and her husband picks up her box of hormones, for the early stages of the treatment that a client is required to go through to produce ideal genetic material for embedding into a surrogate, at Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time doing embroidery and watching television in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana, an ex-surrogate, cooks bread, as she continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff, which she prepares in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel's assistant, Dr. Hiral (right), tends to a phone calls in tandem with Dr Nayana Patel in the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients pour into Anand from across the world pursuing Dr Patel's expertise on the process, and they keep in touch with her and the progress of the pregnancies via the internet and phone. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A doctor works on an egg in the lab after an IVF egg retrieval in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) performs a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates try out 2nd hand maternity dresses when a salesman brings them to the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, works with her assistant as they screen profiles of egg donors in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients pour into Anand from across the world pursuing Dr Patel's expertise on the process, and they keep in touch with her and the progress of the pregnancies via the internet and phone. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana (2nd from right) and her husband (2nd from left) poses for a family portrait with her husband's parents in her house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Archana , an ex-surrogate, continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff which she prepares with her family. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) performs a laproscopy operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (left) performs a laproscopy operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) waits for the next operation after performing a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (2nd from left) performs a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A client picks up her box of hormones, for the early stages of the treatment that a client is required to go through to produce ideal genetic material for embedding into a surrogate, at Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • 9 months pregnant, Leela Mekwan (left), 34, rests while chatting with other surrogates as they while their time away in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates try out 2nd hand maternity dresses when a salesman brings them to the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara (left), who has just come from Canada to pick up her 1st baby from surrogacy, listens to other surrogacy clients in a waiting room at the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients come from all over the world to see Dr. Nayana Patel in hope to be able to have their own biological children through the hire of a surrogate to carry their babies. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, sits at her desk in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Leela Mekwan (center), 34, sits with her husband Jayantibhai (left), 38,  as a nurse, Sejal Parmar, 32, looks on in the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. Leela is 9 months pregnant with her 2nd surrogacy that she is doing with Dr. Nayana Patel and has support from her immediate family including her 2 sons. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Marie-Claire France
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  • Leela Mekwan (center), 34, sits with her husband Jayantibhai (left), 38, and son Ashish (right), 14, as a nurse, Sejal Parmar, 32, looks on in the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. Leela is 9 months pregnant with her 2nd surrogacy that she is doing with Dr. Nayana Patel and has support from her immediate family including her 2 sons. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Marie-Claire France
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  • Leela Mekwan (center), 34, sits with her husband Jayantibhai (left), 38, and son Ashish (right), 14, in the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. Leela is 9 months pregnant with her 2nd surrogacy that she is doing with Dr. Nayana Patel and has support from her immediate family including her 2 sons. Photo by Suzanne Lee/Marie-Claire France
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  • A doctor works on an egg in the lab after an IVF egg retrieval in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, sits at her desk in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • An asian surrogacy client laughs as she clutches a form on surrogacy and IVF treatment details the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time talking on their mobile phones or watching daily happenings in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A surrogate passes her time chatting on her mobile phone in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time chatting with each other in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana's father-in-law (left) prepares tiffin containers, as she (right) makes bread in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Archana , an ex-surrogate, continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana (right top), an ex-surrogate, looks into her accounts, as she continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff, which she prepares in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (left) performs a laproscopy operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Doctors prepare to move the patient to the recuperation room after performing a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on her in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time watching the happenings outside through their windows in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pose for a photograph in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time doing embroidery and watching television in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, tends to a phone call as she dictates her email answers to her assistant in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients pour into Anand from across the world pursuing Dr Patel's expertise on the process, and they keep in touch with her and the progress of the pregnancies via the internet and phone. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara (left), who has just come from Canada to pick up her 1st baby from surrogacy, shares her success story with other surrogacy clients in a waiting room at the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients come from all over the world to see Dr. Nayana Patel in hope to be able to have their own biological children through the hire of a surrogate to carry their babies. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, chats after doing an ultrasound on Bharti Utrekar, a surrogate who is 7 months pregnant with twins for an American couple, at the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Dr. Patel had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
    suzanne20121209-mc-surrogacy-3686.JPG
  • A doctor works on genetic material in the lab after an IVF egg retrieval in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A doctor transfer genetic material to a thermal controlled machine in the lab after an IVF egg retrieval in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time talking on their mobile phones or watching the happenings outside through their windows in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana (right) makes bread in her house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Archana , an ex-surrogate, continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) performs a laproscopy operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) performs a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center) performs a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates pass their time doing embroidery and watching television in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates try out 2nd hand maternity dresses when a salesman brings them to the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A surrogate poses for a photograph in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A surrogate poses for a photograph in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates try out 2nd hand maternity dresses when a salesman brings them to the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • 9 months pregnant, Leela Mekwan (left), 34, chats with other surrogates as they while their time away in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Images of a variety of deities and religious teachers line a shelf outside a room while surrogates pass their time doing embroidery and watching television in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, tends to a phone call as she dictates her email answers to her assistant in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients pour into Anand from across the world pursuing Dr Patel's expertise on the process, and they keep in touch with her and the progress of the pregnancies via the internet and phone. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
    suzanne20121209-mc-surrogacy-0736.JPG
  • Dr. Nayana Patel, tends to a phone call as she dictates her email answers to her assistant in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients pour into Anand from across the world pursuing Dr Patel's expertise on the process, and they keep in touch with her and the progress of the pregnancies via the internet and phone. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
    suzanne20121209-mc-surrogacy-0733.JPG
  • Dr. Nayana Patel, does an ultrasound on Bharti Utrekar, a surrogate who is 7 months pregnant with twins for an American couple, at the Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Dr. Patel had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
    suzanne20121209-mc-surrogacy-3678.JPG
  • Dr. Nayana Patel, performs an IVF egg retrieval on a patient in her Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
    suzanne20121209-mc-surrogacy-3117.JPG
  • Surrogates pose for a photograph in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • An asian surrogacy client clutches a form on surrogacy and IVF treatment details  the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana's husband (right) fills tiffin containers, as she (center) makes bread in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Archana , an ex-surrogate, continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana's husband (left) and father-in-law (center) prepares tiffin containers, as she continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff, which she prepares in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (left) chats with other doctors as she waits for the next operation after performing a hystroscopy, a pin-hole operation, on a patient in the operation theater of Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
    suzanne20121209-mc-surrogacy-1245.JPG
  • Surrogates pass their time doing embroidery and watching television in the surrogates hostel on the 3rd floor of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, dictates her email answers to her assistant in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients pour into Anand from across the world pursuing Dr Patel's expertise on the process, and they keep in touch with her and the progress of the pregnancies via the internet and phone. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (center), sits at her desk in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center that she founded with her husband, Dr. Hitesh, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. She had done her first successful surrogacy birth in 2003, and has delivered over 565 babies since the clinic's establishment. When choosing surrogates, they are counseled, and screened following a stringent guideline. Surrogates must be married and have completed their own families with their own children, and the couple must be medically, physically, psychologically, emotionally and mentally sound. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A doctor works on genetic material in the lab after an IVF egg retrieval in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Archana's husband (right) and father-in-law (left) cleans tiffin containers, as she continues to work with Dr. Nayana Patel, catering specially prepared tiffin meals to the surrogates and Akanksha IVF and Surrogacy clinic staff, which she prepares in her house with her family in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel, dictates her email answers to her assistant in her Akanksha IVF and surrogacy center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Surrogacy clients pour into Anand from across the world pursuing Dr Patel's expertise on the process, and they keep in touch with her and the progress of the pregnancies via the internet and phone. While 15% of couples are infertile globally, only 6% of infertility cases require surrogacy as a last option. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Patients wait around to see the doctors at the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara, from Canada, wakes her baby as her surrogate, Idan, comes to breastfeed the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Kantibhai Solanki (center), 38, looks out to their farm and buffalo at their house, built using the money his wife, Sharda made from doing 2 surrogacies, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. While Kantibhai works as a security guard earning 5000 rupees per month, Sharda, 36, had made hundreds of thousands with 2 surrogacies that she did with Akanksha Clinic, which she used to buy land, buffaloes, build washrooms in her house and extend the house. She had also saved a substantial amount to fund her 3 children's educations and make sure that her 2 daughters will find husbands to match their current status. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates spend a lot of time chatting on their mobile phones with family and friends, as they spend the entire pregnancy mostly shrouded in secrecy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates in their daily lives, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara, from Canada, carries her baby after her surrogate, Idan, has breastfed the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Barbara's baby yawns in his cot in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Asian and American surrogacy clients chat outside the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Surrogacy clients come from around the world and find camaraderie amongst other couples facing similar problems. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Idan, who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, holds his hand as she breastfeeds the baby in her hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son so that he gets the best start in life. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Nurse Sejal Parmar (center), 32, weighs and wraps a new born baby after a surrogate went into labor and gave birth unexpectedly in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel (left) looks through a log in the lab at the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dieties and gods from a variety of religions adorn the walls as surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates laze around and chat with each other, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Bharti Utrekar (center), who is pregnant with twins for an American client, chats with other surrogates after her baby shower, organised on the 7th month of pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates in their daily lives, as they spend the entire pregnancy, in the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Idan, the surrogate who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, comes to breastfeed the baby in Barbara's hotel room near the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Barbara, from Canada, had come to receive him at his birth from Idan, her surrogate, and is waiting for her husband to come and join her in Anand, while she continues to hire Idan to breastfeed her son. Idan's husband sends pumped breast milk to Barbara's hotel in the evenings when Idan cannot come personally. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Manisha, an ex-surrogate, has continued to work with Dr. Patel's Akanksha clinic as a nanny for new-born test tube babies, like these twins in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Apara Nursing Home, where babies from the Akanksha clnic are often sent for neonatal and other post-birth intensive care, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. Manisha, a widow and mother of 3 of her own children, has taken care of over 100 babies for Dr Patel's surrogacy clients, making up to 15000 rupees per month. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Dipen Thakkar checks on his first surrogate at the Usha Nursing Home and test tube center started in May 2012, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 10th December 2012. He is preparing to launch a surrogacy program and has just inserted the first embryo into this surrogate a few days ago, and has yet to know if it will be a successful pregnancy. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A picture of Sharda Solanki, 36, and her husband Kantibhai Solanki, 38, is displayed next to a picture of a baby boy she carried during one of her 2 surrogacies, in her house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. While her husband Kantibhai works as a security guard earning 5000 rupees per month, Sharda had made hundreds of thousands with 2 surrogacies that she did with Akanksha Clinic, which she used to buy land, buffaloes, build washrooms in her house and extend the house. She had also saved a substantial amount to fund her 3 children's educations and make sure that her 2 daughters will find husbands to match their current status. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Pinki Khristi, 28, cooks a meal for her family while her daughter (left) plays with a neighbour at their farm house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. Pinki's sister-in-law had convinced her to become a surrogate together with her in 2008 and Pinki has since done 2 surrogacies. While Pinki and her husband Dhiraj used to make 2000-5000 rupees per month from farming and as labourers, she had made over 850,000 from both her surrogacies and had bought land, buffaloes and saved 320,000 rupees in a fixed deposit. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • 9 months pregnant, Leela Mekwan (center), 34, waits for a doctor's checkup in preparation for her Caesarian section delivery today in the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Pregnant surrogates wait for their check-ups with Dr. Nayana Patel in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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