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00:00:03Down a dusty backstreet in a rural Indian town, one house is home to 100 pregnant women.
00:00:13They're carrying babies they'll soon hand over to couples from around the world.
00:00:19And it's all the work of Dr. Naina Patel.
00:00:22God is creating life, but God has appointed me to do that on this earth.
00:00:31She's the pioneer of a booming commercial surrogacy industry.
00:00:35For many couples worldwide, she offers their last hope of starting a family.
00:00:41But to her critics, she's commercialized childbirth and exploited the poor.
00:00:47Am I doing something criminal?
00:00:49There were a lot of allegations that this is just a baby making factory.
00:00:54With unprecedented access, we enter the world of Dr. Naina Patel, her international clients,
00:01:02and the women inside her house of surrogates.
00:01:16The town of Anand, far from the tourist trail, in the rural Indian state of Gujarat.
00:01:23It's previously only been known for its dairy production.
00:01:31But recently, an increasing number of visitors from all over the world have been arriving in the town.
00:01:46With the people who have been living in the country.
00:01:48But my country is pretty much, I mean, the most wealthy people who live in the country have been living
00:01:52under the territory.
00:01:57And I have to find the people that are living under the roof of the country.
00:02:06They have children, they have been living under the roof.
00:02:06Dr. Patel's fertility clinic in the centre of Anand is where over the last decade she's created and personally delivered
00:02:14hundreds of babies via IVF surrogacy.
00:02:23Australian Sam and his Serbian wife Jana have arrived in town for the delivery of their first child.
00:02:32My wife is very emotional. It's a bit like the old days in Australia where the parents were in the
00:02:39waiting room.
00:02:5245-year-old Jana has been unable to have a baby since severe illness, but commercial surrogacy is a criminal
00:03:00offence where they live in Australia.
00:03:02I was sick and unfortunately we couldn't achieve the normal way.
00:03:12In Australia we don't have this chance and India is the country that I would recommend everyone to go to.
00:03:23I still remember the culture shock when we arrived at the airport the first time we come.
00:03:28But the people are very friendly in India, very nice, so you can't complain.
00:03:34Not a bit.
00:03:37Not a bit.
00:03:38Not a bit.
00:03:39I don't know if you're a child.
00:03:44Don't worry about it.
00:03:46Not a bit.
00:03:56Come on.
00:03:57Come on.
00:03:57Come on, come on.
00:03:58Come on, come on.
00:03:58Come on.
00:03:59Come on, come on.
00:04:01Come on, come on.
00:04:13their surrogate Jyoti is from a local village for carrying and delivering the baby she's
00:04:23been paid $8,000
00:04:53after how many years it's been a long year it's been 11 years everything is fine
00:05:02everything is fine the baby is fine you're so small
00:05:33you can come with me this is going to be a learning experience doing all this come
00:05:38you can come with me the experts and show us
00:05:59I have faced criticism I am facing it and I will be facing it because this according to many is
00:06:09a
00:06:09controversial subject there were a lot of allegations that this is just a business this is just baby
00:06:17selling baby making factory and all these phrases used to hurt these surrogates are doing the
00:06:26physical work agreed and they are being compensated for that they know that there is no gain without
00:06:33pain it's a journey of around two miles from the clinic to the surrogate house situated on the
00:06:42outskirts of Anand with so many pregnant women under one roof the house has its own matron
00:07:03the property is divided into dormitories sleeping up to
00:07:08ten expectant surrogate mothers in each room this is a nine not party can it UK this is okila and
00:07:18three months start and couple is Canada this is a roach and three months complete and couple is here
00:07:25America America America like a little you work like a lacquer like a man I'm saying but the
00:07:36market money so Korea really today go here and I'm going to run go a ha ha ha ha ha
00:07:43the women in the
00:07:47surrogate house have all their meals made for and delivered to them and they're on a strict
00:07:52regime of vitamins and rest women can be a surrogate through dr. Patel up to three times
00:08:14and it's 28-year-old Papiya's second time inside the house
00:08:3828-year-old Vasanti has two children of her own but is currently being employed to carry a Japanese
00:08:45couple's baby abadu mongwari with a jenna lead a king upper a fortune over the highway on a
00:08:53sorrow future each that way a no and I might take a raise a but double put any much more
00:09:00in a lead
00:09:00is out the surrogate mothers have no genetic link to the babies they carry they're created as embryos
00:09:11at dr. Patel's clinic before being implanted into their wounds
00:09:19under one roof you have a japanese baby british baby american baby
00:09:25all of them growing up under one world and when they'll be delivered they will all have
00:09:32as a birth certificate born in annan dr. Patel works six days a week from her clinic
00:09:41as well as the medical work it's from here she liaises with her international clients
00:09:46and keeps a watchful eye over the surrogate mother's movements this is typically a demand
00:09:53book that the surrogate sent to me from the surrogate house
00:09:58so you have to go to them yes yes or no my signature then it is sanctioned if i pass
00:10:03a
00:10:04comment that no she should not go or she should only give this much of money then it is every
00:10:09day
00:10:10about five to six today one has asked for a thousand rupees advance to open a bank account
00:10:16other is asked that my son is in class five i need to go home for 10 days for his
00:10:21exams third one is
00:10:23asked for two thousand rupees for her husband he needs it for something so i've passed it and what kind
00:10:30of things would you refuse oh i mean going home for just some vague reason and where i feel that
00:10:40she'll
00:10:40not be able to take care of herself like there is some celebration and dancing going on then i would
00:10:45suggest please do it because that will not be good for you amy has just flown in to india from
00:10:55texas
00:10:57she received an email 24 hours earlier saying her son had been born via a surrogate
00:11:05where we go down here
00:11:10she's here to see him for the first time
00:11:17holy moly
00:11:22if we don't get run over first we'll get there
00:11:29this way
00:11:31having unsuccessfully tried to hold a pregnancy over the last 10 years
00:11:3549 year old amy and her husband opted to try surrogacy
00:11:42i just want to see him because of course you want to make sure the baby's okay
00:11:49she did tell us to go this way right the surrogate mother chosen by dr patel and whom amy has
00:11:55never
00:11:56met is now somewhere in a nearby neonatal hospital ward with her newborn baby did she say here
00:12:05hi hi hi hi i'm amy um hanefa gave birth to my child baby is in an issue where is
00:12:14that
00:12:21okay okay now we give with the nanny okay you have to be with the nanny okay the second floor
00:12:34i have to be with the nanny okay you have to be with the nanny okay you have to be
00:12:55with the nanny okay
00:12:57hi hi
00:13:12hi hi hi it's beautiful thank you
00:13:23i just i can't believe i'm holding him 10 years waiting for you huh definitely worth it
00:13:35she's telling you are happy am i happy yeah oh yeah more than happy
00:13:40the static does she speak english no no you want to talk anything yes tell her she's giving me a
00:13:50huge
00:13:50gift and i can't thank her enough all right i'll let you have him back
00:14:02i'm going to go home and sleep and then i will see you tomorrow morning
00:14:08so you can take this then you can come tomorrow he's okay he's just why he's okay
00:14:21commercial surrogacy has become a booming industry across the whole of india in the last decade
00:14:28now estimated to be worth one billion pounds a year
00:14:34of india paying a surrogate here is legal and costs only one-fifth of what it would in the usa
00:14:41one of the few other countries where it's permitted
00:14:47india has one-third of the world's poorest people laborers and farm workers earn under 10 pounds a week
00:14:59it means there's no shortage of applicants to become a surrogate at dr patel's clinic
00:15:05even if they aren't totally sure what it entails
00:15:16and they're very important to know the people who are the people who are the people who have
00:15:42The family has been in the hospital for 9 months, so the children have been in the hospital for 9
00:15:49months.
00:15:50The children have been in the hospital for 9 months and have been in the hospital for 9 months.
00:16:28Thank you so much.
00:16:43Thank you so much.
00:19:51It's like my whole future decides today, right now.
00:19:56We have got five blastocysts.
00:19:58One, two, three, four, five.
00:20:01Five.
00:20:02They are all excellent.
00:20:03I can see the big girls.
00:20:04Yes, yes.
00:20:05Looks like daddy.
00:20:06They are very good.
00:20:07They are very good.
00:20:07So we will transfer one.
00:20:10Only one?
00:20:12No, two, please.
00:20:13And the others we will freeze it.
00:20:16Two.
00:20:17Please.
00:20:18Okay.
00:20:19Okay.
00:20:20We transfer this and this will freeze.
00:20:22Yes.
00:20:23Okay?
00:20:23Yes, please.
00:20:24Okay.
00:20:25Thank you so much.
00:20:26They look so good.
00:20:28Yes.
00:20:28All five blastocysts are looking perfectly healthy.
00:20:32So they were implanted two and three, they will freeze.
00:20:35It's amazing to see life developing at that early stage.
00:20:38And here in India, you know, we've had to come all this way to experience this.
00:20:43And we're just absolutely overwhelmed.
00:20:46Now these two, I have my names already.
00:20:49My Alexander and my Katerina.
00:20:51I have the name since two years now.
00:20:53So I know it's kind of sentimental, but I had that name for two years now.
00:21:02And always saying I will definitely one day have these little ones.
00:21:07Yeah, from a scientific point of view, I mean, one is not 100% guaranteed.
00:21:12So if you have two, it just improves your chance of at least having one child.
00:21:15Yes.
00:21:17Once the blastocysts have been chosen, Dr. Patel places them inside a surrogate.
00:21:22In the hope they continue to grow inside her womb.
00:21:27We take the name of God, Jaisikrashna Bhagawan.
00:21:31Give a positive result.
00:21:33With all prayers, we put the embryos inside the uterus.
00:21:39Yes. Great.
00:21:41This year, the embryo has gone inside.
00:21:46Yes.
00:21:49Yes.
00:21:51Two weeks from now, there will be a blood test done which will indicate whether they have
00:21:58taken the embryos and got pregnant or not.
00:22:01Whatever is the outcome, positive or negative, the couple will be informed either over the
00:22:06email or the phone.
00:22:08And if the pregnancy is confirmed, then from time to time, the antenatal progress of the
00:22:13surrogate and the baby is informed to the couple.
00:22:16Tomorrow, we are flying back to our home, back to the daily life, to the work.
00:22:25We're hopeful things will work out.
00:22:26But again, nothing in life is 100%.
00:22:34I see you tomorrow.
00:22:35Bye.
00:22:36Bye.
00:22:37Bye.
00:22:44Surrogacy in India may be relatively cheap and legal, but returning home with your newborn
00:22:49can be fraught with difficulties, depending on the rules in your own country.
00:22:54A baby born in India via surrogacy can be classed by some legal systems as having no nationality
00:23:01or parents.
00:23:04A hotel room in the centre of town has been home to baby boy Saron and his Canadian mum
00:23:10Barbara since he was born by surrogacy two months ago.
00:23:16They're waiting for official approval to return to Toronto, where her husband has had to carry
00:23:22on working.
00:23:25Mousie's one of your favourites.
00:23:27Lookie.
00:23:28Mousie's one of your favourites.
00:23:31Yeah.
00:23:31But these few more months are nothing for Barbara.
00:23:34What else?
00:23:34Aged 53, she's been trying for a child for decades.
00:23:39For me, this has been a 30-year journey.
00:23:43We wanted, we got married and we wanted four children.
00:23:46We wanted a whole house full because we came from big families and it was like my whole
00:23:53identity, everything I even dreamed of was put on hold.
00:23:59It's so hard on a couple because my husband used to say that when I was on all the drugs,
00:24:07etc,
00:24:07and then if it wouldn't work or if I would have a miscarriage, he would say it feels like
00:24:14a funeral around here every month.
00:24:18And he was right because I was in mourning each time that it didn't work.
00:24:29Obviously, as I went through a lot of medical problems, I eventually had to have a hysterectomy
00:24:34and then of course I had to face the fact that the biological journey was over.
00:24:40And then it hit me, why am I saying that the biological journey is completely shut down?
00:24:48Because it doesn't have to be for my husband.
00:24:51Barbara was unable to produce eggs or carry a child.
00:24:55So Dr Patel was able to source an Indian woman to donate her eggs and a separate woman to be
00:25:01the surrogate mother.
00:25:02My son is half Indian, so he's going to be encouraged, you know, to explore that whole part of himself.
00:25:13What's going on is he wants milk and of course she's not here.
00:25:16Hang on, honey.
00:25:18Oh, that may be Adan.
00:25:20This is Adan.
00:25:23Adan, the surrogate mother who carried Saron, is now employed by Barbara to be a nanny
00:25:28and to continue to feed him with her breast milk.
00:25:32But he is hungry and he was just getting a little uncomfortable.
00:25:37Hey little man.
00:25:39Hey Sarah.
00:25:39Oh, looky who's here.
00:25:42One of your favourite people.
00:25:45Looky.
00:25:46Oh, he really wants to sit up, doesn't he?
00:25:48Adan comes two times a day to actually nurse Saron.
00:25:56And when she's here, just because she adores him so much, you know, she'll play with him a little bit.
00:26:07Not all surrogates get attached to the babies like she has.
00:26:12Some surrogates give birth and then they go their separate ways.
00:26:16But we have done that because we wanted that relationship.
00:26:20We chose it because what could be wrong with more than one woman loving, you know, my son.
00:26:28Smile there little man.
00:26:29Despite the close relationship developing, once the paperwork has been processed,
00:26:34Barbara and baby Saron will be flying home to Canada.
00:26:388,000 miles from surrogate mother Adan.
00:26:42Hello.
00:26:49In the surrogate house, Sundays are family days where the surrogate mothers have a chance
00:26:55to spend time with their own children and husbands.
00:27:07Vasanti is waiting for her husband to arrive.
00:27:10I have two children.
00:27:13I have one father and one baby.
00:27:16The big children are seven years old.
00:27:19And my children are five years old.
00:27:22My children have told me that I have gas and pain in the stomach.
00:27:27So I have been here to get treatment for the doctor.
00:27:29I have treatment of children.
00:27:31But that's right.
00:27:32We have been up and down.
00:27:33For this example, the guys want to go and kill all the people of my mom.
00:27:36And I thought I am in the hospital that I am getting gas.
00:27:39She is home.
00:27:41My husband is far away from me.
00:27:43It's far away from here.
00:27:45This bus is up-down.
00:28:00I'm going to go there someday.
00:28:03I'm going to go there 4 days.
00:28:05I'm going to go there.
00:28:07I'm going to go there.
00:28:08I'm going to go there.
00:28:17In India, I'm going to go with my children.
00:28:23I'm prepared for my children.
00:28:25I'm prepared for my children.
00:28:26I'm going to go there.
00:28:32Did you see that?
00:28:33Did you see that?
00:28:35Did you see that?
00:28:36Yes, it was.
00:28:37Did you see that?
00:28:37Yes.
00:28:41Did you see that?
00:28:44Yes, I didn't.
00:28:51Yes.
00:28:51Did you see that?
00:28:52I'm going to take you here.
00:28:56I'm taking you.
00:28:58What do you think?
00:29:00I'm glad you're here.
00:29:01Why are you here to make me happy?
00:29:09I'm glad you're here.
00:29:10I'm glad I'm here.
00:29:21I'm glad you're here.
00:29:23I'm glad you're here.
00:29:39how did your involvement with surrogacy begin well I was doing IVF since 1999 but I never
00:29:51thought about surrogacy and when this first case where the female was born without uterus and
00:29:57they asked me for a surrogate and we could not find a single surrogate not only in Gujarat but
00:30:04any part of India a pair of twins who are carried in their grandmother's womb as she acted as surrogate
00:30:10miracle babies of Neil and Nandini Nagler were born in India to their own grandmother because
00:30:15their natural mom was unable to carry them in her womb there was a lot of attention given to this
00:30:22whole case and that is how there were so many couples started approaching me and that is how
00:30:29we got the idea of starting this whole program of surrogacy there are many factors contributing
00:30:41and making India the surrogacy hub of the world first is the medical technology that the western
00:30:48world trusts now and second is the cost the third is the guidelines that are favorable the surrogate
00:30:57has no right over the baby or no duties towards the baby so that makes it easier whereas in the
00:31:02western world most of the places the birth mother is considered as the mother and the birth certificate
00:31:08will have her name all these put together makes India a very favorable destination for doing
00:31:15surrogacy the poverty part I would say that there are so many needy females in India the food shelter
00:31:29clothing and medicine health care is not free for all in India people have to fend for themselves
00:31:42like most surrogate babies born at dr. Patel's clinic Sam and Jana's son has spent his first days under
00:31:49watch on a neonatal ward so busy everybody wants to see the baby it's about probably 10 15 babies in
00:32:01and they don't allow more people in the room yeah it seems to be a bit bit like an assembly
00:32:07line here
00:32:07house is going it was the last baby now it's the second last and now it's probably the third last
00:32:12in
00:32:12that row the baby will be on Monday released from the hospital we are paying today to be at the
00:32:18last
00:32:18bills so the baby on Monday will be all our baby that's right even after Sam and Jana have collected
00:32:27their child it will be some time before they're able to return with him to Australia we are waiting
00:32:33now for birth certificate it will be done on Tuesday now we have to ask for 10 birth certificates
00:32:39believe it or not that's got to do the entire life that's the one thing we a little bit surprised
00:32:43about but fair enough too because you wouldn't want to have to try to get it another copy at some
00:32:50point in the future better to ask for more shoes I went first yesterday this is the most happy I've
00:33:08seen her for a long time she's saying she thinks he's going to have dimples which wouldn't surprise
00:33:24yeah I don't know she looks so natural I think she might make the nanny redundant very quickly
00:33:54it is said that any human being is born with two basic instincts one to survive and one to
00:34:01reproduce here when we do surrogacy we have a couple who wants to procreate so
00:34:08the surrogate comes into picture who wants to survive and here by doing surrogacy she gets
00:34:14the financial help and her instinct to survive is fulfilled by denying surrogacy we are basically
00:34:23depriving these people of their basic instincts rather than helping them go ahead with their dream
00:34:29of living a good life and their dream of having a child each fortnight dr. Patel visits the surrogate
00:34:37house to check on the women's progress and hear of any concerns
00:34:43how to but but even then need to have a new care for them I'm going to get a new
00:34:47code and a racquet
00:34:48I'm now live a villa yeah now look at me what I've never quite does been back at it that's
00:34:54been
00:34:54looking at them back jayna book you and I cut out non-binary not cut out also the car up
00:35:03like in a man
00:35:03gandhra take butcher time good morning good morning fucking I like so with a shikrashna jayshikrashna
00:35:12I'm a partner currently so much about Dana poochoo check a suit a soon a okay have a bad any
00:35:18for yet
00:35:19what thank you all well
00:35:24while I'm
00:35:25wala
00:35:25Venano jenna husband
00:35:26mera
00:35:27men
00:35:28mera
00:35:28mera
00:35:28mera
00:35:31mera
00:35:31In a minute, I had to take a home home.
00:35:33I was selling a home to 3. In my 3rd house, I got a home.
00:35:35I sagt that I can get a home owner and buy a shop.
00:35:40That is no problem.
00:35:41For 3 years, it was 2.
00:35:44But in my 3rd house, I was earning a home owner.
00:35:47I told you that we were sending a home owner to the house of mine.
00:35:53I said to myself, I'd have to take a house with a store.
00:35:58I'd have to buy a home with a house.
00:35:59I'd never be a country.
00:36:01The surrogate mothers are paid in a strict system of instalments.
00:36:07At six months pregnant, Vasanti has now received two payments of $600.
00:36:25The surrogate gets on an average $8,000.
00:36:31If it is twins, $10,000.
00:36:35If she aborts within three months, she gets the $600.
00:36:41If it's more than three months, then it's $1,200.
00:36:46After six months, whatever happens, whether the baby survives or whatever, the surrogate
00:36:52gets the full payment of $8,000.
00:37:01What happens if there's abnormalities?
00:37:04Even if it's handicapped, the contract says that the couple has to accept the baby.
00:37:09The surrogate has no duty towards the baby.
00:37:11So the couple will have to accept the baby even if it is handicapped.
00:37:16But now with the technology, most of the malformations can be picked up, though some can be a surprise.
00:37:23Once we had a baby with multiple malformations, which was detected around 18 weeks, and the
00:37:28baby was terminated.
00:37:33As well as being in charge of all things medical and financial at the clinic, Dr Patel also
00:37:39likes to influence how the surrogates spend their fees after they've been paid.
00:37:44Meena.
00:37:46Meena does not have a bank account, so she has come today.
00:37:50I will be signing this paper so that she can open an account across.
00:37:56So these are the typical pictures of the surrogate, how they are using their money.
00:38:02We have got files of them, that whether they have done a fixed deposit or whether they have
00:38:09bought a house of their own.
00:38:11And why do you do that?
00:38:13So that we want to see that they are being educated in the right way and they utilize this
00:38:17hard-earned money in the right way.
00:38:20Because they do not understand the value of the money.
00:38:23This money should be put to the right use.
00:38:27Some people might think they should be able to do what they want with their money, so
00:38:32why are you doing that?
00:38:33Yes, they are doing what they want with their money, but once the money is there and there
00:38:37will be somebody who would ask for a loan or they will just use the money in the wrong
00:38:42way.
00:38:42That is what we do not want.
00:38:44That is what we do not want.
00:39:11Barbara and her newborn son, Saron, have now spent three months living in their hotel.
00:39:17We love the colours in India.
00:39:21They've started to become familiar faces around the town.
00:39:26What could you show us today in some little boys' clothes?
00:39:31We need light clothes for India.
00:39:34Okay.
00:39:35Do you have any others?
00:39:37Okay.
00:39:38Do you have any others that are really, really cute, like the little elephant and the zipper one that I
00:39:42got last time?
00:39:48I think couples that come here have longed for children for so long.
00:39:54When we get these little ones in our arms, we treasure every single moment.
00:40:02Here's our favourite store.
00:40:08We're going to be in the shade in just a second.
00:40:12We're going to go look at the pretty flowers.
00:40:15Want to smell the flowers?
00:40:18Mmm.
00:40:20There's some little puppies under the slide.
00:40:25Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.
00:40:28Other people might say, well, some people are just destined not to have children.
00:40:35You know, is it a God-given right to have a child?
00:40:41That is, it's such a difficult question to really process.
00:40:46When people say, you know, if you have all these medical problems, then you just weren't meant to have a
00:40:51child.
00:40:53You know, people are born with problems with their eyes.
00:40:56People are born as diabetics.
00:40:58And are they not meant to have corrective eyeglasses?
00:41:01Are they not meant to have insulin?
00:41:05I mean, we all have certain things that we have to bear.
00:41:08And ours is infertility.
00:41:10So why, since it's a medical issue, are we not able to have medically corrective procedures
00:41:16that enable us to then lead as close to a normal life as possible?
00:41:24So, why didn't you adopt?
00:41:27After I had my hysterectomy, then we really thought that that was the way.
00:41:31But we had so many hoops to jump through for domestic and international adoption.
00:41:36Home studies to be done by social workers, psychiatry reports, Interpol, you know, clearance.
00:41:44And also, you are going to usually get a child much older.
00:41:50To be honest, most of those babies are parents of alcoholics, drug-addicted people,
00:41:56or any other number of problems.
00:41:59So, we both decided that we would even remain childless
00:42:04before we would choose to have a fetal alcohol or a drug-addicted child.
00:42:10You know, that was not our vision of our family and of our child.
00:42:17And really, we're looking to fulfil what our dream family was going to be.
00:42:34Amy has come to collect her newborn baby son, Christopher, and return home with him to Texas.
00:42:42As commercial surrogacy is also legal in parts of the States,
00:42:46American clients like Amy can return much quicker on other nationalities.
00:42:52Are you ready?
00:42:53Yes, I am.
00:42:55Have you learned everything?
00:42:56How to give milk, how to make milk, everything?
00:42:59I have already made milk with me.
00:43:02Okay.
00:43:02So, just a nipple and...
00:43:04Okay, okay.
00:43:05Yes.
00:43:06So, you can take home?
00:43:08For surrogate mum, Hanifa, it's time to say goodbye to the baby she's carried.
00:43:34Thank you very much.
00:43:44Thank you, honey.
00:44:00Hello.
00:44:01It's okay?
00:44:05Everything is okay.
00:44:14He's so peaceful when he sleeps.
00:44:16It's almost like you just want to leave him.
00:44:20Only 26 hours on the plane, you'll be home.
00:44:24Oh.
00:44:30Five-star French cuisine.
00:44:40Yeah, he's sleeping.
00:44:42He's got it in his mouth, but he's not sucking on it.
00:45:00All right.
00:45:11Calm?
00:45:12She's calm.
00:45:12Yes, good.
00:45:14Okay, here we go.
00:45:16Thank you so much.
00:45:18Bye.
00:45:18Bye.
00:45:20Bye.
00:45:30Bye.
00:45:32Bye.
00:45:32Bye.
00:45:37Bye.
00:45:41Bye.
00:45:43Bye.
00:45:47Bye.
00:45:59Definitely when you carry a child for nine months, there is a bonding.
00:46:04As a mother, I would say that, yes, there is a bonding with the baby that you are carrying.
00:46:08There's no denying that it's painful.
00:46:12I would say that it's not really painful for 95% of the surrogates.
00:46:21Only, I would say, 5%.
00:46:22So far, I have delivered 500 surrogates.
00:46:25I would say only two surrogates had got a little bit of psychological problem for 10 to 12 days only
00:46:32where they remembered the baby.
00:46:54Speed.
00:46:56Speed.
00:47:03Oh
00:47:04Oh
00:47:05Oh
00:47:07Oh
00:47:24It's been a long time for the rest of the night, it's been a long time for the rest of
00:47:30the night.
00:47:42My husband and my husband have all the work that I have done in my house.
00:47:57Home for Vasanti.
00:47:59is one room shared amongst seven.
00:48:47With the money from surrogacy, they're building themselves a larger home, far from the villagers
00:48:52that know and disapprove of what Vasanti's done.
00:48:55At the same time, everyone knows that this is a test tube baby, and I told them that we can't
00:49:10be able to live in the house.
00:49:13At the same time, when the money comes to the house, they invest in the house.
00:49:46At the same time, they have to be able to live in the house.
00:49:55Dr Patel's modern home sits a few miles from the clinic.
00:49:59She's had to ensure her house is well protected, having received death threats due to her work.
00:50:22She lives here with her own family.
00:50:26Husband Hitesh helps run the surrogacy business.
00:50:30We weren't introduced in medical college.
00:50:32There was a dance program, and she had more experience in dance than us.
00:50:37We were all beginners, so we were supposed to give a stage show.
00:50:42And a few of the people, friends, they introduced her to us, and she was managing this show.
00:50:50So that's how I came to meet her.
00:51:08I danced for my daughter's wedding, three years back.
00:51:24My plan is to hand over the practice and the clinic to my son, who is, as we answer it,
00:51:30both of them are planning to do gynecology, and they are waiting for their postgraduate admissions.
00:51:36A lot of people would be expecting a lot of things out of me, and there will definitely be some
00:51:42pressure.
00:51:44Let's see if I can withstand that and come through.
00:51:47My son, initially, when he was young, and there is an article in the newspaper,
00:51:52the first thing he will ask, is it a positive article or a negative article?
00:51:57One of the very famous magazines in India, The Week.
00:52:00In 2009, he had 25 most controversial Indians, and I was one of them.
00:52:08I mean, the title was, You may love them, you can hate them, but you cannot ignore them.
00:52:12And that is, when they read all this, they would want to know that,
00:52:17why you are the controversial person, and why there is something wrong about it.
00:52:21No, no, you have to take it with a pinch of salt. You always are going to get some negativity.
00:52:27Why is it controversial, in your opinion?
00:52:31In my opinion, people may think that a couple cannot go that far to have a baby,
00:52:39asking somebody to keep the baby in her womb for nine months,
00:52:43rather than that they should accept childlessness.
00:52:46But I initially really debated, and I had sleepless nights also.
00:52:50I would get up in the middle of the night.
00:52:54It was tough to get going.
00:52:59First of all, initially when I started, there was no awareness about what is surrogacy,
00:53:04what is IVF also.
00:53:05There was so much of criticism from the medical fraternity.
00:53:10People used to shy away from me that, oh, she is doing surrogacy.
00:53:14Doctors saying that this procedure of surrogacy is unethical or immoral or it's exploitation.
00:53:23And it bothers you to a certain extent. It hurts you also.
00:53:28And there are so many hypocrites all around who would themselves be doing it,
00:53:33but openly criticizing this procedure. That hurts you even more.
00:53:38I still want to work for another ten years.
00:53:42And the success stories of each couple and each surrogate keeps me going.
00:53:51Having had blastocysts placed inside her two weeks earlier,
00:53:5528-year-old Papiya is about to have a pregnancy test.
00:54:00If it's positive, it will be the second time she's been a surrogate mother.
00:54:23For hopeful parents, the blood test can be the difference between starting a family or not.
00:54:32For surrogates like Papiya, it can mean her going home today with a small fee of $75,
00:54:38or in nine months' time, with $8,000.
00:54:43.
00:55:11We don't have to worry about it, but we don't have to worry about it.
00:55:23At Dr. Patel's clinic, the surrogates receive regular check-ups,
00:55:28the results of which are emailed to her clients.
00:55:32Dr. Patel has now received news on Michael and Veronica's attempt at starting a family through surrogacy.
00:55:39This is that lovely couple who has gone through a lot, tried everything possible.
00:55:44Very jolly couple. Their attitude was very positive.
00:55:50Veronica, when she had come over here, she said that she had always dreamt that she would be having twins
00:55:57one day.
00:55:58For overseas clients, the news of whether they're to become a family is sent via email.
00:56:04The beta HCG count was high, so we were expecting twins.
00:56:10And when we are doing her scan and seeing the twins, we feel it's so really wonderful that her dream
00:56:19is being fulfilled.
00:56:22How does it feel to be the person responsible for that?
00:56:26I would say it's not one person, but it's a team which is responsible, but it gives a feeling of
00:56:33great joy,
00:56:34and I would say, most importantly, job satisfaction.
00:56:43It's Vasanti's last day in the surrogate house before she's moved to the clinic.
00:56:48Her children, who believed she was being treated for trapped wind, have joined her.
00:56:54She got home again.
00:57:00She had 2 to 4 weeks.
00:57:03She was home in the Wilcox, but she was home in the street.
00:57:04She was a kid who was a doctor who was meeting my family.
00:57:07She had 8 months of life, and she was 9 months.
00:57:10Water!
00:57:11You realize that she wasn't allowed.
00:57:13Water!
00:57:14Water!
00:57:15Water!
00:57:15Water, water!
00:57:16Water!
00:57:18Water!
00:57:19The last month I was very happy because I was very busy.
00:57:24I have to tell you about how to do this.
00:57:28I don't have to tell you about it.
00:57:31I have to tell you that I will do this.
00:57:36I have to tell you.
00:57:41The next week is my bedroom.
00:57:43I have to tell you that I'm looking good at my bedroom.
00:57:44Because I'm still here.
00:57:45I'm still looking good at the bathroom.
00:57:50You can't even get near the bedroom or the other.
00:58:05At the same time I was walking.
00:58:21I got to feel it's too pain in my life, my son came out ,I'm nervous and I have to
00:58:28feel it's too pain.
00:58:32It's very emotional, it's very difficult to get more questions with me as I can.
00:58:33Everyone got the pain in my life, because if you get to know how I feel, I get to know
00:58:35how I feel.
00:58:35Everyone got the pain in my life ,I'm not very afraid of you.
00:58:36I still have to wear that, because I am very afraid.
00:58:37So everyone is here and I just want to see because everyone is here in the distance.
00:58:41So my father is ready for a while and then we are still waiting for a month.
00:58:48So, this is the year, I am leaving.
00:58:51I want to get up.
00:59:23The clinic is full of other expectant surrogate mothers.
00:59:28But a free bed is finally found for Vasanti.
00:59:46Have you ever regretted a case?
00:59:51Once in a while, yes.
00:59:53When I feel that mostly I'm being more considering about the surrogates.
01:00:01Once in a while, I've come across a case where the couple would say,
01:00:04we don't even want to look at her.
01:00:06Then you feel hurt that, why did I do for them?
01:00:10Had I known that they would do like this, I would have never done that.
01:00:13Because money does not matter that much to the surrogate as the love and the feeling that she gets.
01:00:18It's just two sentences, that's all.
01:00:24In a town centre hotel, Barbara's surrogate, Idan, has been visiting baby Saran twice a day for the last few
01:00:32months.
01:00:33It's the second time she's been a surrogate mother, but never before has she spent so long with the child.
01:00:42I took a couple of two of my children's parents.
01:00:46I got two children.
01:00:47Then I got three days and I was bound to get a number of her address with him.
01:00:52I was friends and I was friends with him, so I came up with them.
01:00:58So there was a number of times I had a number.
01:01:05I don't know how much I was going to get out of my house, but I don't know how much
01:01:16I was going to get out of my house.
01:01:20My house was very sad, because my dad came to the house, and my dad came to the house.
01:01:28My dad came to the house, and my dad came to the house.
01:01:35My dad came to the house, and my dad came to the house.
01:01:40My parents were small, and my family was very tight.
01:01:44If we were to get out of my house, my children would be like a child.
01:01:49My children would be so happy, but I think my child would be so happy.
01:01:54With Barbara hoping to return home in the next few weeks,
01:01:58Edan's time with baby Saron is running out.
01:02:03It's just now when she starts to process losing him that it's difficult.
01:02:08And I think in these coming weeks, because we're probably only here about another month,
01:02:14it'll become a little more difficult for Edan, for us both really.
01:02:21And we've already talked a little bit about easing out of the nursing
01:02:27and easing out of the time with her so that it isn't just suddenly gone,
01:02:34in fairness to both her but also obviously the baby.
01:02:48At a nearby spa resort, Australian Sam and his wife Jana
01:02:52now have the paperwork to return home with their son.
01:02:56A process that took 37 days from his birth.
01:03:02You live your whole life to have children.
01:03:06You live your whole life to have children, otherwise it's not complete.
01:03:09Good times are going to be ahead and that's for sure.
01:03:12Look forward to the baby growing up, seeing the little changes every day.
01:03:16You want to get back home, you want to start your life.
01:03:20You pretty much aren't really starting your life in blissful surroundings.
01:03:25As nice as it is in this resort, okay, with the squirrels and the nice mango trees,
01:03:31the swimming pool behind you.
01:03:33I'm just looking forward to going back and just having all the creature comforts back home.
01:03:39like the flat screen TV and it would be nice to have a thick cut steak, which we have back
01:03:48home.
01:03:48I mean, that's the goal of anybody who has a baby born in surrogacy, is to get home.
01:03:54We wouldn't come to India probably for any other reason.
01:04:02Can you see why it's controversial?
01:04:05I would feel that what controversial a couple may feel, a society may feel is that the surrogate is being
01:04:12used.
01:04:13But I feel that each and every person in this society is using one or the other person to grow
01:04:20bigger.
01:04:20Whether it's a corporate house, whether it's glamour world, whether it's politics, nobody is spared.
01:04:27It's a cruel world.
01:04:29And here, there is nothing like that.
01:04:32Yes, the surrogate is giving her uterus or being used by a couple to have a baby.
01:04:38But that you do when you employ a maid.
01:04:41That you do when you employ a labourer to do your task for building a house, etc.
01:04:50In the surrogate house, Papiya is waiting for the result of her blood test to see if she's successfully become
01:04:56pregnant.
01:04:58If she hasn't, she'll have to leave the house today, with only a $75 fee.
01:05:06Papiya's report, I don't know if you have any concerns about your sister.
01:05:13Hello?
01:05:15Yes, ma'am.
01:05:16How are you, ma'am?
01:05:20Oh, okay…
01:05:20Thank you, ma'am.
01:05:45After four months stuck in India, Barbara and baby Saron's paperwork
01:05:51has been processed. Her husband, Michel, has joined them before they return to Canada.
01:05:57I think the first sight I got him was the back of his head, so that wasn't the biggest
01:06:04thrill. It was when he turned around and I saw his eyes, things began to light up. Every
01:06:10time I saw his face on the computer screen, I just wanted to be here, of course, and be
01:06:16with him. We just want to get him home and continue along our happy family journey and hopefully
01:06:26be adding another brother or sister for Saron if we're blessed again.
01:06:33Having used only two of their blastocysts trying for baby Saron, Barbara and Michel have three
01:06:39more frozen in storage at the clinic.
01:06:47Before they leave for Canada, Barbara and Michel are meeting a prospective surrogate for their
01:06:52potential new baby, introduced to them by Dr. Patel's husband, Hitesh.
01:06:59Okay, Barbara, we're meeting your new surrogate. Her name is Daksha. Daksha. D for donkey.
01:07:12Blood. D for donkey. Where's the D? In the beginning. Oh, Daksha. Okay.
01:07:21And that's the husband, Sanjay. Hi. That's a common name. Yeah. All right. And they have
01:07:27two children, as you can see. Two boys. Yes. One is seven and one is four. Ah. Okay.
01:07:37This is the first time. She's not been a surrogate before. Okay. And how old is she, may we ask?
01:07:44She's, yeah, I've just come to that. She's 26 years old. Wow. Right? Did you say 20?
01:07:51Six. 26. Wow, and these kids. She got married at a young age. She's young enough and strong enough and
01:08:00I can't see her standing up, but I think she's good enough size that if it was twins, she would
01:08:07be.
01:08:08She's had, she would, there's no problem. She, she had no problem.
01:08:11She had no problem. She delivered the kids at full nine months on both these kids.
01:08:21What their weights were? That's nice. These family is big babies. So, he was seven and a quarter, one month
01:08:28early.
01:08:29So, he would be bigger than these. Yeah. We have medically, physically, psychologically.
01:08:35We have assessed her. Yeah. And she's, she's completely. The thing for us, we, we did say you're Christian, right?
01:08:44They're Christian. We had asked. And Dan, behind you is my surrogate for this little guy.
01:08:48Okay? And she's Christian as well. And we just felt better with that.
01:08:55Well, you have to talk too, apparently, huh? Do you have an opinion on this?
01:09:01No. He wants you to know he would like a sister this time.
01:09:04Yeah, let's see.
01:09:06No.
01:09:14No.
01:09:18All right. So, you're happy and satisfied with her, Barbara?
01:09:21Absolutely. Yeah, no problems at all. Yeah, she's good and solid enough to handle.
01:09:25That's good. That's good.
01:09:30And with our structures, we just like to make sure that he's middle.
01:09:33It's important that the first meeting wives are positive.
01:09:36Very good. Oh, yeah. They're very positive. That's the most important thing.
01:09:38They're very positive. Yeah. Nice to meet you. Yeah.
01:09:43Hey, little guy. Good to meet you. We'll see you again. Take care. We pray for you, eh?
01:09:49Yeah. We pray for you in the year and for your wife, okay? No, I think they're lovely.
01:09:57I can see that. Yeah. Shall we go? Yes, I think so. And you see Nana.
01:10:02Yeah, you can follow. You can come with us. Come, little man.
01:10:09Yeah. She wants to spend every moment possible within these last two days.
01:10:13I can understand.
01:10:15It's okay, little girl.
01:10:17Happy Halloween, little boy.
01:10:19Okay. Let's have it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:10:23We're happy with you. We're happy with you. We're happy with you.
01:10:27One more. The end of a 31 year journey.
01:10:35Here is the name of Gokhai Devana, huh, sister?
01:10:38Is it a puppy?
01:10:39Is it positive?
01:10:41Yeah, I am.
01:10:42You're happy?
01:10:42What are you doing?
01:10:44What are you doing?
01:10:46Do you have a house?
01:10:48No, I don't give a house or don't give a house.
01:10:51Who?
01:10:51Hey, you're coming.
01:10:54I'm just waiting for a car to tell people to live.
01:10:57Where are you going?
01:11:00What is your house?
01:11:00No, no.
01:11:02I'm coming from here.
01:11:03Who is that?
01:11:06Lila.
01:11:08Lila.
01:11:15My self-regulism is a person who can do this.
01:11:20She is not a person who can do this.
01:11:22She is not a person.
01:11:24She can't eat it.
01:11:29We are free.
01:11:34The Prime Minister is a person who can do this.
01:11:36She is a person who can do this.
01:11:37It's still here so many people have one.
01:11:40I've already been here until you've left.
01:11:44That way, there's something there.
01:11:45The other people will come in,
01:11:46but if they are going to pass again,
01:11:48they will come here and say this,
01:11:53you don't have to go there.
01:11:57Aren't I somebody here?
01:11:58What do you say back to your wife?
01:12:01Right.
01:12:01For the other,
01:12:02the money will come out of your house.
01:12:05Let's leave your house.
01:12:10I definitely consider myself as a feminist right from my childhood days I was brought up in such
01:12:17a way that just because you are a female you cannot do this or you can do this is not
01:12:22existing
01:12:22because my mother herself I'm talking about 40 years back was a very strong feminist and that
01:12:30is what keeps me going and that is what I explained to my sorrow gets that just don't take any
01:12:36domestic
01:12:37violence or any nonsense from your family you are doing a very good job and at the end of the
01:12:43day when you come out you should be the leader of your family in what she feels is part of
01:12:52her
01:12:52feminist mission for the surrogates dr. Patel has introduced various lessons for them inside the
01:13:04house we want them to utilize their time in the best way learn all this and once they leave the
01:13:10surrogate house they can get some earning out of this at home if they get this embroidery work they
01:13:15can still be at home do this work and earn some money so we are training them same thing is
01:13:20this
01:13:21other training them as a beautician because they have a good scope they can work from home later on
01:13:28we are planning to start a cooperative within a year wherein we will find clients for them for
01:13:33beauty treatment etc so that they get work through us and they get earning through us that is the
01:13:41thing I want in them to groom them overall not just give a baby finish take your money and go
01:13:47away
01:13:47but change their outlook towards life life but change their outlook towards life
01:13:51how does it work in the way that they do not do beauty
01:14:17not do beauty
01:14:17not do baby
01:14:17not do
01:14:26Do you want to make her a more confident female and make her self-sufficient, that is what I want
01:14:36to see in a surrogate.
01:14:51Having been in labour for a prolonged period, Dr Patel has opted to give Vasanti a caesarean in order to
01:14:58deliver the Japanese baby she's been carrying.
01:15:35The next day, you are going to have a nice picture of Vasanti.
01:15:39She is going to have a nice picture of Vasanti.
01:15:41But you are going to have a nice picture of Vasanti.
01:15:43It's a great picture of Vasanti.
01:15:44In this life, we have a nice picture of Vasanti.
01:16:02Like most newborns at the clinic, the Japanese boy is immediately taken straight to the neonatal
01:16:09hospital where it can be collected once the parents are in India.
01:16:43As Dr. Patel approaches
01:16:45the 10th anniversary of her surrogacy work, she has new plans.
01:16:50Despite the criticism, death threats and media attention, she wants her project to be bigger
01:16:57than ever before.
01:16:59It's a vision that I'm seeing.
01:17:01An institute for surrogacy where total care of the gestational mother, genetic couple
01:17:11and the newborn baby is under one roof.
01:17:16The idea is to have a unique clinic which could be the first of its kind in the world.
01:17:27This is the main building which is about 85,000 square feet and the building behind that is
01:17:34about 15,000 square feet and that is the utility area.
01:17:39These are the engineers, that's Mr. Yogesh, Mr. Pratik.
01:17:43All of them are engineers.
01:17:45All of them are engineers.
01:17:45Can you engineer?
01:17:47This is quite ambitious.
01:17:49How much does a project like this cost?
01:17:52Six million?
01:17:53Six million dollars?
01:17:54Six million dollars.
01:17:55Look, the whole idea is to create a nest where we'll have the surrogates staying at the
01:18:01lower ground floor with various activities which they can pursue.
01:18:06Upper ground will be the outpatient department where all the consultancy and the diagnostic
01:18:11department and the gift shop and the gallery of the skills of the surrogates, whatever we
01:18:17display will be there.
01:18:19And the second floor will be a neonatal care unit, then there will be service apartments
01:18:24for the couples who come to collect the babies.
01:18:27So the idea is that couple is there, the baby is there and the surrogate is also there, everyone
01:18:32under one roof.
01:18:38And I'm also visualizing one step further, I want most of my ex-surrogates to be employed
01:18:44and have a work opportunity over there.
01:18:46And someday I'm thinking of a hospital of the surrogates run by the surrogates.
01:18:52And I feel that surrogacy is one woman helping another woman and only a woman will understand
01:19:00the feeling of both these females who are unable to live a life of their dream.
01:19:30It's the final day in India for Barbara, husband Michelle and baby Saron.
01:19:36For now, I need to pick it up with a baby on route.
01:19:42And for our bridge, this is actually a diaper bag, but I'm going to figure it out on route
01:19:48right now.
01:19:51We're a little bit pressed for time.
01:19:56We've been giving all kinds of things away, our surrogate has gone home with about five
01:20:01bags of things.
01:20:02She's got a new iron and a new pedal and anything that we're, you know, it's just too large for
01:20:08us to take back though that she can use.
01:20:24He's officially, you know, has his own Canada passport here, right?
01:20:30As you can see.
01:20:31His exit visa reads like a deportation order.
01:20:34Yes, here it is.
01:20:36He does not leave by April the 2nd for, it is punishable with imprisonment for a period
01:20:42of five years and a fine.
01:20:45So I think they really want our son out of India now.
01:20:49Four months is enough.
01:21:10It's also time for Adan to say goodbye to the baby she held for nine months and nursed
01:21:16for four more.
01:21:21Thank you for being so patient little man.
01:21:25Mommy's a good boy.
01:21:28I'll pick this drawer down honey.
01:21:30Now I just need to run around and do some tips to all the staff.
01:21:36And where's the cook?
01:21:38Cookies in the staff room.
01:21:43So if you can give him one of those for us.
01:21:46Well, he's mad, mad, mad.
01:21:48I gave him 700.
01:21:49So he already has a foot back.
01:21:52Can you break up a couple of 500s for me?
01:21:55Yes.
01:21:57Yeah, give me some change.
01:22:01And you did a lot more for me than a lot of the others.
01:22:04So now you'll get two.
01:22:06Okay?
01:22:07Anybody have five 100s now?
01:22:10No?
01:22:10Okay, Paul, I'll have eight and seven for him.
01:22:14April 7, support team 21.
01:22:19Is that right?
01:22:24Oh my goodness.
01:22:26Is there anyone over there for us?
01:22:32Those are the two Skypes, Michelle and me.
01:22:35Two emails, our full address.
01:22:45All right.
01:22:47All right.
01:22:48Here, let's put this.
01:22:49Are you okay?
01:22:50You want to say your final goodbyes?
01:22:52Are you okay?
01:22:54Are you okay?
01:23:00Give her a hug.
01:23:01Give a dad a hug.
01:23:20Thank you so much.
01:23:24It's going to be okay.
01:23:25We'll see you again.
01:23:27Love you.
01:23:29Love you.
01:23:34He's going to be upset.
01:23:35That's just the way it is.
01:23:37It's going to be hot.
01:23:38Okay?
01:23:40Okay.
01:23:41Okay.
01:23:43Bye.
01:23:44Bye.
01:23:47Bye.
01:23:49Bye.
01:23:50Bye.
01:23:52Bye.
01:23:54Bye.
01:23:58Bye.
01:24:08Three days after Vasanti had a cesarean, she's still in the clinic recovering and as yet
01:24:14not seen the baby.
01:24:15I have no experience, but I don't think I'm sad.
01:24:27There is a gas trouble.
01:24:29I can't have food.
01:24:35I can't have a problem.
01:24:40I had to miss the family.
01:24:43But I was able to get to it.
01:24:47I was able to get to it for 5 seconds.
01:24:52I had to take my child and get to it.
01:24:55I was able to get to it.
01:24:58I was able to get to it for years.
01:25:01I was able to get to it.
01:25:06My wife is still alive and with the pain of my husband.
01:25:09We are not even alive.
01:25:12We are all together with our children.
01:25:18We are all together with our children.
01:25:19We are all together with our children.
01:25:25I am not dying, my brother, I am not all.
01:25:31I am not all.
01:25:33In my circumstances, I am not all.
01:25:36I am not all.
01:25:41I am not all.
01:25:42I am all.
01:25:43I am all my dreams.
01:26:03When I was younger, I would like to see the future.
01:26:10I would like to see the future.
01:26:34I don't think it's a shame that they have to do surrogacy for the couple or for the
01:26:41surrogate no I don't think it's a shame it's a very special woman who can become a surrogate
01:26:49it's not for all and it's not easy to become a surrogate and I'll repeat it takes a very very
01:26:58special woman to become a surrogate so she should never be ashamed of it but instead she should
01:27:04come out in the open and say proudly yes I've been a surrogate and I've changed the life of this
01:27:09couple okay done
01:27:56so
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