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  • Photographs of Shardaben's pregnancy (right) and 2nd surrogacy baby are displayed atop the television set in her living room...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their
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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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  • 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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  • Robyn and Jason re-enact their daily activities while in small town Anand, India, for 2 weeks for the IVF treatment. Robyn Wright,38 (Left) and Jason Wright,44 (Right) is an American couple from Wyoming, USA, who are new surrogacy clients of the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in Anand, Gujarat. India...- Robyn works as a nail tech. in Wilson, a town with reportedly among the highest per capita incomes in the US. .- Robyn's monthly income ranges between $ 3,000-5,000. Jason works as a guide in national parks and earns about $ 150 per day. .- They've been saving up for three years to be able to afford the surrogacy in India, which will cost them about $ 25,000 (not including travel costs).- Robyn has a 14-year-old daughter from her first marriage but had to have a partial hysterectomy a month after delivery due to a medical complication. ..Quotes.."To get us back here [to try again for surrogacy in India in case it doesn't work out this time], I would have to work everyday in the summer. I'll start selling my possessions, if I have to." - Jason."I definitely relate with the surrogates to the extent that everybody has to sell their soul to earn money." - Jason."A girl-friend offered to be a surrogate but that would have been harder. It would have led to complex emotions." - Robyn.., where some surrogate mothers stay, in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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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  • 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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  • Ranju Rajabhai, 32, has enrolled in the surrogacy program because her husband had sustained 25% burns in a domestic kitchen accident and needs surgery. She will use the money to pay for the medical bills and build a house. She hasn't told her kids about the surrogacy. The biological parents of the baby are Canadians...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.
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  • 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.
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  • Robyn Wright,38 (Left) and Jason Wright,44 (Right) is an American couple from Wyoming, USA, who are new surrogacy clients of the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in Anand, Gujarat. India...- Robyn works as a nail tech. in Wilson, a town with reportedly among the highest per capita incomes in the US. .- Robyn's monthly income ranges between $ 3,000-5,000. Jason works as a guide in national parks and earns about $ 150 per day. .- They've been saving up for three years to be able to afford the surrogacy in India, which will cost them about $ 25,000 (not including travel costs).- Robyn has a 14-year-old daughter from her first marriage but had to have a partial hysterectomy a month after delivery due to a medical complication. ..Quotes.."To get us back here [to try again for surrogacy in India in case it doesn't work out this time], I would have to work everyday in the summer. I'll start selling my possessions, if I have to." - Jason."I definitely relate with the surrogates to the extent that everybody has to sell their soul to earn money." - Jason."A girl-friend offered to be a surrogate but that would have been harder. It would have led to complex emotions." - Robyn.., where some surrogate mothers stay, in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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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  • Photographs of Shardaben's pregnancy (right) and 2nd surrogacy baby are displayed atop the television set in her living room...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their
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  • Shardaben's eldest daughter, Lakshmi (18) walks out of a room. 200,000 rupees out of the money Shardaben earned from surrogacy will soon be given to Lakshmi's husband-to-be as her dowry. ..Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and cu
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  • 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.".<br />
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. <br />
Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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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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  • Shardaben and Kantibhai walk toward their house in Vagpura village,  Anand, Gujarat. ..Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).-Kantibhai was already a sperm donor at Dr. Patel's clinic when they came to know about surrogacy and its benefits from Dr. Patel and Shardaben went in for her first surrogacy in early late 2006, early 2007..- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibh
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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
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  • Shardaben holds photographs of her surrogacy jobs...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...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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  • Shardaben holds a photo album of her 7th month of pregnancy during the surrogacy. The Godbharai, which literally means "filling the lap", is a tradition of providing the mother with gifts etc. and dolling her up in finery. Dr. Patel said that many of these women don't experience such a nice godbharai and that they do this for the surrogates in their 7th month of pregnancy. . .Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).-Kantibhai was already a sperm donor at Dr. Patel's clinic when they came to know about surrogacy and its benefits from Dr. Patel and Shardaben went in for her first surrogacy in early late 2006, early 2007..- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the
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  • Shardaben holds up a photograph of her first surrogacy job..Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...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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  • Shardaben walks around the back of her house where she used the surrogacy money to build two toilets...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally control
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  • Shardaben poses with her buffaloes that she bought with the money she earned from surrogacy...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their environmentally controlled surro
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  • Shardaben walks along the trench in the agricultural land that she leased for 5 years with the money she got from surrogacy...Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and currently has over a hundred surrogate mothers pregnant in their
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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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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • Ranju Rajabhai, 32, has enrolled in the surrogacy program because her husband had sustained 25% burns in a domestic kitchen accident and needs surgery. She will use the money to pay for the medical bills and build a house. She hasn't told her kids about the surrogacy. The biological parents of the baby are Canadians...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.
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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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  • 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.
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  • Ranju Rajabhai, 32, has enrolled in the surrogacy program because her husband had sustained 25% burns in a domestic kitchen accident and needs surgery. She will use the money to pay for the medical bills and build a house. She hasn't told her kids about the surrogacy. The biological parents of the baby are Canadians...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.
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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
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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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  • Ranju Rajabhai, 32, has enrolled in the surrogacy program because her husband had sustained 25% burns in a domestic kitchen accident and needs surgery. She will use the money to pay for the medical bills and build a house. She hasn't told her kids about the surrogacy. The biological parents of the baby are Canadians...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.
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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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  • 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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  • Ranju Rajabhai, 32, has enrolled in the surrogacy program because her husband had sustained 25% burns in a domestic kitchen accident and needs surgery. She will use the money to pay for the medical bills and build a house. She hasn't told her kids about the surrogacy. The biological parents of the baby are Canadians...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.
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  • 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
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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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  • 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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  • Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...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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  • Shardaben's eldest daughter, Lakshmi (18, in pink) carries a younger relative as Shardaben looks on. 200,000 rupees out of the money Shardaben earned from surrogacy will soon be given to Lakshmi's husband-to-be as her dowry. ..Shardaben Kantiben, 31; Husband is Kantibhai Motibhai (37).3 children --- 2 girls -  Usha(15) and Lakshmi (18, in pink); 1 boy, Chintan (17).- Education costs for all three come to Rs. 15,000 per year.- Shardaben was a two-time surrogate. First time she gave birth to twin girls for a Taiwanese couple and the second time a boy for an Indian couple from America (photo on TV set because she's proud that it was a boy).- The second time she became emotional and they got a gold ring of Rs. 1,500 made for the boy, which they presented to the biological parents. They are not in touch with either couple..- From the two surrogacies, they earned a little over 700,000rupees..-200,000rupees will be given as dowry for Lakshmi's wedding..- They leased agricultural land (Rs. 2 lakhs for five years) which earns them Rs. 60,000-70,000 a year; they bought two buffaloes worth Rs. 60,000 and make almost 6000-7000 per month selling milk; they bought a motorbike for Rs. 25,000; they put some money into house repairs and the construction of toilets, and opened a fixed deposit in Shardaben's name for Rs. 1.5 lakh and one in the name of their son, Chintan, for Rs. 25,000..Quotes.."Everyone says they'll keep in touch and take down addresses and phone numbers but nobody looks back. And I guess it works well. Our main interest was in the money. Their main interest is in the baby." - KantiBhai."Their rules apply at the surrogate house. It does curtail the freedom. When I used to go, everybody would just be lying. They count the days when they can go back." - Kantibhai."Ours is natural birth but surrogacy is a man-made pregnancy. There's a lot of risk. She must have taken at least 300 injections." - Kantibhai of his wife...The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internatio
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  • Dhiraj Khristi, 36, tends to his farm lands, bought using the money his wife Pinki made from her 1st surrogacy, in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. Dhiraj's sister had convinced his wife Pinki to become a surrogate together in 2008 and Pinki has since done 2 surrogacies. While the couple 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. They have both also convinced other villagers to become surrogates and earned a small amount from a successful introduction to Dr. Nayana Patel resulting in pregnancy. 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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  • A European mother (left) tends to her newborn while American Jennifer, 38, shares her joy in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. Jennifer wants to tryout 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Surrogacy clients rent rooms for long durations in the Rama Residency hotel, a stones throw away from the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. Surrogacy clients come from around the world flood into this tiny town and find camaraderie amongst other couples facing similar problems. 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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  • An Indian babysitter tends to a European newborn while other surrogacy clients chat with the biological mother (unseen) in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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.
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  • A European mother (center left) tends to her newborn (unseen) while other surrogacy clients chat with her in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Surrogacy clients from around the world coming to hire surrogates wait in a waiting room, surrounded by photos of successful surrogacies, at the Akanksha Clinic 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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  • A European mother (Caroline) cradles her newborn in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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. <br />
Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • A European mother cradles her newborn in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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.
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  • Dr. Nayna H. Patel speaks to a pregnant lady while doing an ultrasound for her in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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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  • 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 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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  • Dr. Nayna H. Patel poses for a portrait in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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. <br />
Photo by Suzanne Lee for Panos London
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  • (L-R) Martha's daughter (9), Manjula Vinod Zala (27), Martha Sanjay Chauhan (purple) (35), and Haital Jagdishbhai Solanki, 24, (sister of Manjula Vinod Zala)...Women tell jokes and 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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  • Dr. Nayna H. Patel poses for a portrait with a European newborn in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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.
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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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  • Women sit around in the Akanksha surrogate house as posters of babies and religious symbols adorn the walls...Shilpa Ben Praveenbhai Maikwan, 28, (2nd from left) is carrying a baby for her clients from Delhi, India. "we do this so our children will not lead a life such as ours, we want a better life for them.".(left to right) .Unknown; Shilpa Maikwan; 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); Martha Sanjay Chauhan (35, christian);..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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  • 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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  • 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 (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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  • 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 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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  • The IVF machine (the left needle holder is to hold the egg and the right one is used to inject sperm.  The plate below is maintained at normal body temperature of 37.5 degree Celsius) and the Incubators (Then the embryo is placed inside an incubator, with the name of the surrogates on top of each container. It is maintained, again, at 37.5 degrees Celsius. It's a delicate procedure. The fertilization success rate at Patel's clinic is about 40-45 percent. If the beta test is successful, it is then transferred to the surrogate and if she shows a positive result with pregnancy, she is then transferred to the surrogate house)...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.
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  • 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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  • 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 (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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  • Patients, surrogates, and clients wait in the reception area in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. .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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  • Women sit around in the Akanksha surrogate house as posters of babies and religious symbols adorn the walls...Indu Ben Dasrathbhai Pawar (center, in yellow, 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)..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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  • Manisha (center) and Nita (right), both ex-surrogates, have continued to work with Dr. Patel's Akanksha clinic as a nannies 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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  • 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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  • (L-R) Manjula Vinod Zala (27), Martha Sanjay Chauhan (purple) (35), and Haital Jagdishbhai Solanki, 24, (sister of Manjula Vinod Zala)...Women tell jokes and 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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  • 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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  • Patients, surrogates, and clients wait in the reception area in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. .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.
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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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  • 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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  • Patients wait to see the doctors in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 18 May 2011. The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is known internationally for its surrogacy program and has delivered over 560 babies since their establishment. Photo by Suzanne Lee
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  • Dr. Nayna H. Patel's husband, Dr. Hitesh Patel, 52, handles legal affairs and consults clients in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic that they run in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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.
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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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  • Nita, an ex-surrogate, has continued to work with Dr. Patel's Akanksha clinic by selling her breast milk to other surrogacy clients, and 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. 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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  • 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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  • Manisha (right), 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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  • 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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  • Dr. Nayna H. Patel poses for a portrait in the Akanksha Infertility Clinic in the small town of Anand, Gujarat, India. 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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