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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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  • Bharti Utrekar (center), a surrogate, waits to go back to the Akanksha Infertility Center surrogate hostel after her joint 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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, 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, 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Dhiraj Khristi, 36, hugs his daughter at their farm house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. While Dhiraj and his wife Pinki 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 that they plan to use for their daughter's future education. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Three surrogates (Bharti Utrekar in center) who are in their 7th month of pregnancy perform a Hindu prayer at their baby shower organised for them at the surrogate's house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Dr. Nayana Patel performs an embryo transfer on a surrogate in the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Shakku (center), an ex-surrogate, used to work as a hard labourer making daily wages lower than the minimum wage, in construction sites and as a domestic servant, sits amongst other current surrogates in the surrogate's hostel at the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Surrogates laze around and chat in the surrogate's hostel in the compound of 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, 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • A surrogate's child comes to visit as other 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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  • Other surrogates look on as 2 surrogates get their photos taken after their joint 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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, from Canada, looks on 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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  • Idan, who just gave birth to Barbara's baby, 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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  • Barbara, from Canada, chooses baby music CDs as she carries her 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 (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) 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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  • 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 (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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  • A lady walks into a the waiting room outside the operation theater of Dr. Nayana Patel's Akanksha clinic  in Anand, Gujarat, India on 11th December 2012. 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • Sharda Solanki, 36, holds a photograph of a baby she carried during one of 2 of her surrogacies as she sits 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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  • 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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  • Sharda Solanki, 36, sits for a portrait with her family (from left to right) Kantibhai Solanki, 38, Usha , 15, and Rasmi, 20, in their 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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  • Sharda Solanki, 36, carries fodder for her buffaloes, as she walks through the land she now owns, in front of her house, all bought with the money she made from doing 2 surrogacies, 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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  • Dhiraj Khristi, 36, hugs his daughter at their farm house in Anand, Gujarat, India on 9th December 2012. While Dhiraj and his wife Pinki 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 that they plan to use for their daughter's future education. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Pinki Khristi, 28, sits for a portrait at her 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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  • Dhiraj Khristi, 36, feeds his buffaloes at their farm house 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A surrogate's child comes to visit as other 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • A surrogate's child comes to visit as other 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 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • School girls giggle as they walk home from school in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A cow walks in front of a group of giggly school girls as they walk home from school in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • School girls giggle as they walk home from school in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Dr. Nayana Patel performs an embryo transfer on a surrogate 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 performs an embryo transfer on a surrogate 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 client walks around on the Operation Theater floor, as a surrogate looks out the window in the surrogates floor above, at the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012. Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Jayshree Pillai (center), a surrogate for her first time, poses for a photograph as other surrogates laze around in the surrogate's hostel in the compound of the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • Jayshree Pillai (right), a surrogate for her first time, chats as other surrogates laze around in the surrogate's hostel in the compound of the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  Photo by Suzanne Lee / Marie-Claire France
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  • A front desk assistant looks for a patient's file at the Akanksha Infertility Center in Anand, Gujarat, India on 12th December 2012.  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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  • 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 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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  • 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, 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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