House of Surrogates 代孕者

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An intimate film chronicling the work of Dr Nanya Patel and her rural clinic in India that provides surrogate mothers for a fee.  代孕本质上就是一件不应该提倡、应该明令禁止的事情, 而抛弃代孕宝宝, 更是丝毫没有人性. 如果代孕父母不想要孩子了, 那孩子将何去何从?

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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.

00:01:46In the United States, this country was in the area and the country was not in the area.

00:01:51The country was in the area that the people of the Somnese had lived in the area.

00:01:58I think that there are many families, who took all the tourists, who took all the immigrants...

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.

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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. This was really, in Australia we don't have this

00:03:16chance, 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'd come.

00:03:28But, the people are very friendly in India, very nice, so you can't complain.

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00:03:56Sam and Jana have paid a fee of around 28,000 US dollars to Dr Patel's clinic for its services.

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00:04:20For carrying and delivering the baby, she's been paid $8,000.

00:04:50How are you doing?

00:04:53After how many years?

00:04:55Eleven?

00:04:56It's been a long year.

00:04:57You could say eleven years.

00:05:01Everything is fine.

00:05:02Everything is fine.

00:05:03The baby is fine.

00:05:04And then just show me the baby.

00:05:06Here, your baby.

00:05:07You can hold your baby.

00:05:18You're so small.

00:05:20That's amazing.

00:05:30Let me show you.

00:05:33Come.

00:05:33You can come with me.

00:05:35This is going to be a learning experience doing all this.

00:05:38Come.

00:05:39You can come with me.

00:05:40The experts can show us.

00:05:43Okay.

00:05:44We have to come this morning.

00:05:55When you started and now, what's the reaction been?

00:05:59I have faced criticism.

00:06:02I am facing it.

00:06:03And I will be facing it.

00:06:05Because this, according to many, is a controversial subject.

00:06:11There were a lot of allegations that this is just a business.

00:06:15This is just baby selling, baby making factory.

00:06:20And all these phrases used to hurt.

00:06:24These surrogates are doing the physical work, agreed.

00:06:27And they are being compensated for that.

00:06:31They know that there is no gain without pain.

00:06:36It's a journey of around two miles from the clinic to the surrogate house.

00:06:41Situated on the outskirts of Anand.

00:06:45With so many pregnant women under one roof, the house has its own matron.

00:07:03The property is divided into dormitories, sleeping up to ten expectant surrogate mothers in each room.

00:07:11This is Naina.

00:07:13This is Paradeganish.

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00:07:15This is Kokila, three months start, and the couple is Canada.

00:07:21This is Soros.

00:07:22And three months complete.

00:07:23The couple is America.

00:07:26You get the majority of the people working properly.

00:07:32Next you get the majority of the people working on the coast.

00:07:35You don't want to see them.

00:07:39I don't want to see them going.

00:07:46The women in the surrogate house have all their meals made for and delivered to them,

00:07:51and they're on a strict regime of vitamins and rest.

00:08:09Women can be a surrogate through Dr. Patel up to three times, and it's 28-year-old Papiya's

00:08:16second time inside the house.

00:08:3828-year-old Vasanti has two children of her own, but is currently being employed to carry

00:08:44a Japanese couple's baby.

00:09:04The surrogate mothers have no genetic link to the babies they carry.

00:09:09They're created as embryos at Dr. Patel's clinic before being implanted into their wounds.

00:09:19Under one roof, you have a Japanese baby, a British baby, an American baby, all of them

00:09:26growing up under one world, and when they'll be delivered, they will all have a birth certificate

00:09:33born in Anand.

00:09:37Dr. 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 mothers' movements.

00:09:50This is typically a demand book that the surrogates send to me from the surrogate house.

00:09:58So you have to go to them and say yes or no?

00:10:00Yes, yes or no.

00:10:01My signature, then it is sanctioned.

00:10:03If I pass a comment that no, she should not go or she should only give this much of

00:10:08money, then it is.

00:10:09Every day about five to six.

00:10:11Today, one has asked for a thousand rupees advance to open a bank account.

00:10:16Other has asked that my son is in class five, I need to go home for ten days for his

00:10:21exams.

00:10:22Third one has asked for two thousand rupees for her husband.

00:10:26He needs it for something, so I've passed it.

00:10:29And what kind of things would you refuse?

00:10:31Oh, I mean, going home for just some vague reason, and where I feel that she'll not be

00:10:40able to take care of herself, like there is some celebration and dancing going on, then

00:10:45I would suggest please do it good, because that will not be good for you.

00:10:52Amy has just flown in to India from Texas.

00:10:56She received an email 24 hours earlier saying her son had been born via a surrogate.

00:11:05Wait, we go down here?

00:11:10She's here to see him for the first time.

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 ten years, 49-year-old Amy and

00:11:38her 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?

00:11:52The surrogate mother chosen by Dr. Patel, and whom Amy has never met, is now somewhere in

00:11:58a nearby neonatal hospital ward with her newborn baby.

00:12:02Did she say here?

00:12:05Hi.

00:12:06Hi.

00:12:07I'm Amy.

00:12:09Hanefa gave birth to my child.

00:12:12Baby's in NICU.

00:12:13Where is that?

00:12:17Your baby was here in the NICU.

00:12:20Okay?

00:12:21That's right.

00:12:22But now we give with the nanny.

00:12:25Okay.

00:12:26Your baby with the nanny.

00:12:27Okay.

00:12:27She's the second girl.

00:12:33Who jumped your baby Nilayfa?

00:12:35Hi.

00:12:36Ah.

00:12:37Hello.

00:12:38This ladies use this on your position.

00:12:43Hey man.

00:12:48He's so cute.

00:12:51How do you put a finger?

00:12:52That's their finger.

00:12:55Oh my god. I can't believe this. Oh my gosh.

00:13:05Oh, surrogate. Surrogate.

00:13:11Hi. Hi. It's beautiful. Thank you.

00:13:24I can't believe I'm holding him.

00:13:27Ten 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.

00:13:39The static. Does she speak English? No. No. You won't talk anything?

00:13:48Yes. Tell her she's given me a huge gift and I can't thank her enough.

00:13:59All right. I'll let you have him back. I'm going to go home and sleep and then I will see

00:14:05you tomorrow morning.

00:14:08So you can take this, then you can come tomorrow.

00:14:11He'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 £1 billion a year.

00:14:34Paying a surrogate here is legal and costs only one-fifth of what it would in the USA, one of

00:14:41the few other countries where it's permitted.

00:14:47India has one-third of the world's poorest people. Labourers and farm workers earn under £10 a week.

00:14:59It means there's no shortage of applicants to become a surrogate at Dr. Patel's clinic, even if they aren't totally

00:15:07sure what it entails.

00:15:09Let's speak to the people.

00:15:11Besser.

00:15:12How are your name?

00:15:14My name is Ashok Bhai.

00:15:16How are you, Ashok Bhai?

00:15:17How are you, Ashok Bhai?

00:15:19How are you?

00:15:21What's your information about the patients?

00:15:22I'm not sure what they are.

00:15:27...

00:15:31...

00:15:32...

00:15:33...

00:15:33I was about to get back into the laboratory.

00:15:36I was like, did you become a worker?

00:15:40Did you become a worker?

00:15:41I was like, you were going to do a week.

00:15:42And now, these people were going to be able to get back into a job.

00:15:48The people are like, they aren't going to be able to get back into time.

00:15:49I was like, do you know what I'm saying?

00:16:00I'm not going to give back.

00:16:01કરીશક્સવ આ

00:16:07ડાકટર દારાં મને એપણ જાણ કરવા માવી છે

00:16:10સુવાવર દરમ્યાન મને કઈં પં તકલીફ થઈ શકે

00:16:13નારમલ થાઈ સિજેર્યન થાઈ કણી વાર લોયઈ ચડાવુ પડે

00:16:18અને કણી વકત બર્વાશેનું બલીડીંગ બંના થઈ તો કોઈ વાર થાગ્યે કાડુઈ પડે

00:16:48કડે કણે કેછચે તમા

00:16:50to make check it a moment in a sub and that is okay the Mara Pella some GV

00:16:56turning up a loop or which it may be Jerry look whatever yeah 62 year old

00:17:04British dr. Michael and his 33 year old Russian wife Veronica are at the first

00:17:09stage of the surrogacy process having their embryos created by the clinic

00:17:17unfortunately I do not have the possibility of considering as I am missing one ovary and one tube

00:17:24due to the abnormality I born like that as we say so I didn't know until I was 22

00:17:35that persuaded me that that my last chance of trying to have my own child is to use

00:17:45a surrogate yeah as a physician I find it somewhat ironic that some days as a family

00:17:51doctor in my office I see poor individuals who are pregnant and wish to go the route

00:17:57of terminating that pregnancy whilst other times during the day you may find individuals

00:18:04who deeply wish to be pregnant and are unable to it's it's the fortunes of life when I came

00:18:12to the clinic the outside looks very ordinary but that hides the interior where the science is

00:18:20quite professional their procedures are sterile and no different from what I'm used to in the

00:18:29Western world many women they all suffer because they don't have this possibility to become mothers

00:18:36and they would do anything like I did because we will be mothers and we will have our children who

00:18:45will make their children I still think that we will be blessed with twins potential life begins in the

00:18:54laboratory via IVF Michael's sperm is injected into eggs collected from Veronica our mind was always in the

00:19:03laboratory with the little ones for me they're like already life they're waiting for that moment to be placed in

00:19:15the place where they can grow and then they can be taken out and then say hello mommy

00:19:25if the resulting embryos continue to grow they become known as blastocysts today Michael and Veronica have come to see

00:19:36theirs in the hope they're good enough to be placed inside a surrogate and create a pregnancy

00:19:41oh my god it's like my whole future decides today right now one two three four five five they're all

00:20:02excellent yes yes yes they're very good so they will transfer one

00:20:10only one only one no two please and the others we will freeze it yes

00:20:16two please okay we transfer this and this will fix yes okay yes please

00:20:24okay thank you so much they look so good yes all five blastocysts are looking perfectly

00:20:31healthy so they will implanted two and three they will freeze and it's amazing to see life developing at that

00:20:37early stage and and here in

00:20:39in india you know we've had to come all this way to experience this and we're just absolutely overwhelmed

00:20:45now these two i have my names already my alexander my katerina i have the name since two years now

00:20:53so i know it's it's kind of um sentimental but i had that name for two years now and

00:21:02always saying i will definitely one day have these little ones yeah from the scientific point of view

00:21:09i mean one is not a hundred percent guaranteed so if you have two it just improves your chance at

00:21:13least

00:21:14having one child yes once the blastocysts have been chosen dr patel places them inside a surrogate in the

00:21:23and hope they continue to grow inside her womb we take the name of god jay shik rashna bhagwan

00:21:30give a positive result with all prayers we put the embryos inside the uterus yes great this year the embryo

00:21:42has

00:21:42gone inside away aram karjo shantiti two weeks from now there will be a blood test done which will

00:21:56indicate whether they have taken the embryos and got pregnant or not whatever is the outcome positive

00:22:03or negative the couple will be informed either over the email or the phone and if the pregnancy is confirmed

00:22:09then from time to time the antenatal progress of the surrogate and the baby is informed to the couple

00:22:16tomorrow we are flying back to our home back to the new to the daily life to the work

00:22:24we're hopeful things will work out but again nothing in life is a hundred percent

00:22:33thank you i see you tomorrow bye bye

00:22:44surrogacy in india may be relatively cheap and legal but returning home with your newborn can be fraught with

00:22:50difficulties depending on the rules in your own country a baby born in india via surrogacy can be classed

00:22:58by some legal systems as having no nationality or parents a hotel room in the center of town has been

00:23:07home to baby boy saran and his canadian mum barbara 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 on working

00:23:25mousie's one of your favorites looky mousie's one of your favorites

00:23:30yeah but these few more months are nothing for barbara aged 53 she's been trying for a child for decades

00:23:39for me this has been a thirty year journey uh we wanted we got married and we wanted four children

00:23:46uh we wanted a whole house full because we came from big families and it was like my whole identity

00:23:54everything i even dreamed of uh was was put on hold it's so hard on a couple because my husband

00:24:03used to say

00:24:04that uh um when i was on all the drugs etc and then if if it wouldn't work or if

00:24:10i would have a miscarriage

00:24:11he would say it uh it feels like a funeral around here every month and uh he he was right

00:24:20because

00:24:21um i was in mourning each time that it didn't work and um so obviously as i went through a

00:24:31lot of medical

00:24:32problems i eventually had to have a hysterectomy and then of course i had to face the fact that the

00:24:38biological journey was over um and then it hit me why am i saying that the biological journey is completely

00:24:47shut down because it doesn't have to be for my husband barbara was unable to produce eggs or carry a

00:24:54child

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

00:25:02surrogate mother my son is half indian so he's going to be encouraged you know to explore that whole part

00:25:10of himself what's going on is he wants milk and of course she's not here hang on honey oh that

00:25:19may be a

00:25:19dog this is a dog so idan the surrogate mother who carried sir on is now employed by barbara to

00:25:27be a

00:25:28nanny and to continue to feed him with her breast milk but he is hungry and he was just getting

00:25:35a

00:25:35little uncomfortable hey little man hey sarong oh looky who's here one of your favorite people looky oh he

00:25:46really wants to sit up doesn't he dan comes uh two times a day uh to actually nurse uh sarong

00:25:55and uh when

00:25:56she's here just because she adores him so much uh you know she'll play with him a little bit

00:26:07not all surrogates get attached to the babies like she has um some surrogates give birth and then they go

00:26:15their separate ways but we have done that because we wanted that relationship we chose it because uh what

00:26:23could be uh wrong with more than one woman loving you know my son smile there little man despite the

00:26:30close relationship developing once the paperwork has been processed barbara and baby saran will be

00:26:37flying home to canada 8 000 miles from surrogate mother edam

00:26:49in the surrogate house sundays are family days where the surrogate mothers have a chance to spend time

00:26:56with their own children and husbands

00:26:58with their own children on sc een van

00:27:09all right

00:27:14musicません

00:27:19ASAN

00:27:20ASAN

00:27:20ASCANG

00:27:25ASAN ASAN

00:27:27ASAN

00:27:27That's why I'm here to go to my doctor's treatment.

00:27:31That's why we've been able to understand it.

00:27:34That's why people are dying.

00:27:35That's why they say,

00:27:36Mommy is going to gas,

00:27:37and they're going to go home.

00:27:40My husband was close to 1 km.

00:27:45This bus is down.

00:28:00Now, I'm going to be 4 days later.

00:28:05I'm going to be 4 days later.

00:28:07I'm going to be 6 days later.

00:28:16We are all together with Indian children.

00:28:22I'm prepared for the children.

00:28:25I'm prepared for the children.

00:28:26We are going to be doing this.

00:28:32You're good.

00:28:35You're not good?

00:28:36No, you're good.

00:28:37You're good?

00:28:38Yes.

00:28:40What are you doing?

00:28:43What is it?

00:28:45I will not get away.

00:28:46Why are you leaving?

00:28:52Today I will take my money here.

00:28:55I will not be able to make money.

00:28:59I don't think I will not be able to make money.

00:29:01Why do I make money in English?

00:29:08I will not be able to make money.

00:29:10I will not be able to make money.

00:29:12Who makes money for our children.

00:29:20To make money in English.

00:29:22To tell you your family,

00:29:25my little husband.

00:29:27She is the only for me,

00:29:32my fizzy.

00:29:34You know her sister.

00:29:38You are all birching.

00:29:41Ermice

00:29:45Well, I was doing IVF since 1999, but I never thought about surrogacy, and when this first

00:29:55case where the female was born without uterus and they asked me for a surrogate, and we

00:30:00could not find a single surrogate, not only in Gujarat, but any part of India.

00:30:05A pair of twins who are carried in their grandmother's womb as she acted as surrogate.

00:30:10Called Miracle Babies, Neil and Nandini Nagler were born in India to their own grandmother

00:30:15because their natural mum was unable to carry them in her womb.

00:30:19There was a lot of attention given to this whole case, and that is how there were so many

00:30:25couples started approaching me, and that is how we got the idea of starting this whole

00:30:31program of surrogacy.

00:30:34Why is India that's leading the way?

00:30:36There are many factors contributing in making India the surrogacy hub of the world.

00:30:45First is the medical technology that the Western world trusts now, and second is the cost.

00:30:53The third is the guidelines that are favorable.

00:30:57The surrogate has no right over the baby or no duties towards the baby, so that makes it

00:31:01easier, whereas in the Western world, most of the places, the birth mother is considered

00:31:06as the mother, and the birth certificate will have her name.

00:31:10All these put together makes India a very favorable destination for doing surrogacy.

00:31:22The poverty part, I would say that there are so many needy females in India.

00:31:26The food, shelter, clothing, and medicine, health care is not free for all in India.

00:31:34People have to fend for themselves.

00:31:42Like most surrogate babies born at Dr. Patel's clinic, Sam and Yana's son has spent his first

00:31:48days under watch on a neonatal ward.

00:31:54It's so busy, everybody wants to see the babies.

00:31:57It's about probably 10, 15 babies in.

00:32:01And they don't allow more people in the room.

00:32:05Yeah, it seems to be a bit like an assembly line here.

00:32:07Ours has gone, it was the last baby, now it's the second last, and now it's probably the

00:32:11third last in that row.

00:32:12The baby will be on Monday released from the hospital.

00:32:16We are paying today the last bills, so the baby on Monday will be all our baby.

00:32:24That's right.

00:32:24Even after Sam and Yana have collected their child, it will be some time before they're

00:32:30able to return with him to Australia.

00:32:32We are waiting now for birth certificates.

00:32:35It will be done on Tuesday.

00:32:37Now we have to ask for 10 birth certificates, believe it or not.

00:32:39That's got to do the entire life.

00:32:41That's the one thing we're a little bit surprised about.

00:32:44Yeah.

00:32:44But, fair enough too, because you wouldn't want to have to try to get another copy at

00:32:50some point in the future.

00:32:51Better to ask for more.

00:32:53Shoes.

00:32:54I went first yesterday.

00:32:56And what?

00:32:57You can go first today.

00:33:07This is the most happy I've seen her for a long time.

00:33:13Oh, she's saying she thinks he's going to have dimples, which wouldn't surprise.

00:33:21Yeah.

00:33:24I don't know.

00:33:25She looks so natural.

00:33:26I think she might make the nanny redundant very quickly.

00:33:54It is said that any human being is born with two basic instincts.

00:33:59One to survive and one to reproduce.

00:34:03Here, when we do surrogacy, we have a couple who wants to procreate.

00:34:07So, the surrogate comes into picture who wants to survive.

00:34:12And here, by doing surrogacy, she gets the financial help.

00:34:16And her instinct to survive is fulfilled.

00:34:20By denying surrogacy, we are basically depriving these people of their basic instincts rather

00:34:26than helping them go ahead with their dream of living a good life and their dream of having

00:34:32a child.

00:34:34Each fortnight, Dr. Patel visits the surrogate house to check on the women's progress and

00:34:40hear of any concerns.

00:35:08Good morning, good morning, good morning.

00:35:10Good morning, good morning, good morning.

00:35:12The last day, I was able to make a trip to the car.

00:35:14Next day, everyone is going to ask if there is a question or if there is a question.

00:35:17Then, everyone is looking for the pleasure.

00:35:20Okay…

00:35:20He will look for the pleasure.

00:35:22Yes…

00:35:23Tell me.

00:35:24I have one of them, but my husband is not a husband.

00:35:27The child got three hundred and we didn't have her own house.

00:35:33If you know about one school, you get a house, the store, and the store?

00:35:40That's right.

00:35:41If you are drunk even in three years, the house will be double.

00:35:44You can just get the house for the girls.

00:35:47If you don't go to the house with your house, you just take the house.

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 of $8,000, if it is twins $10,000, if she aborts within three

00:36:36months she gets the $600, if it's more than three months then it's $1,200, after six months whatever happens

00:36:48whether the

00:36:49baby survives or whatever, the surrogate gets the full payment of 8,000 US dollars.

00:37:01What happens if there's abnormalities?

00:37:04Look, even if it's handicapped, the contract says that the couple has to accept the baby, the surrogate has no

00:37:10duty towards the baby.

00:37:12So 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 baby was terminated.

00:37:33As well as being in charge of all things medical and financial at the clinic, Dr Patel also likes to

00:37:39influence how the surrogates spend their fees after they've been paid.

00:37:46Meena, Meena 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 bought a

00:38:10house 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 hard

00:38:18-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.

00:38:31So why are you doing that?

00:38:32Yes, they are doing what they want with their money.

00:38:35But once the money is there and there will be somebody who would ask for a loan or they will

00:38:39just use the money in the wrong way.

00:38:42That is what we do not want.

00:38:44They are doing what they want with their money in the right way.

00:39:11Barbara and her newborn son Siron have now spent three months living in their hotel.

00:39:17We love the colours in India.

00:39:20They have started to become familiar faces around the town.

00:39:26Oh, what could you show us today in some little boys' clothes?

00:39:31We need light clothes for India.

00:39:34Okay.

00:39:35Mm-hmm.

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.

00:40:08We'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?

00:40:18Mm-hmm.

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, and 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.

00:41:32But 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.

00:41:45And also, you are going to usually get a child much older.

00:41:49To be honest, most of those babies are parents of alcoholics, drug-addicted people, or any other number of problems.

00:41:59So, we both decided that we would even remain childless before we would choose to have a fetal alcohol or

00:42:08a drug-addicted child.

00:42:10You know, that was not our vision of our family and of our child.

00:42:16And really, we're looking to fulfill 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, American clients like Amy can return much quicker than

00:42:50other nationalities.

00:42:52Are you ready?

00:42:53Yes, I am.

00:42:55Have you learned everything? How 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...

00:43:08For surrogate mum Hanifa, it's time to say goodbye to the baby she's carried.

00:43:17As if we wanted to drink it, it's time to say goodbye to the baby she's taken away.

00:43:28We are very scared of the baby she is now.

00:43:32We are very scared of the baby she is now.

00:43:33Just a little bit of it.

00:43:36Our baby is very scared of the baby she is now.

00:43:39The baby is now.

00:43:40And this baby she is now.

00:43:40We are very scared of the baby she is now.

00:43:59Hello.

00:44:01It's okay?

00:44:05Everything is okay.

00:44:14He's so peaceful when he sleeps, it's almost like you just want to leave him.

00:44:20Only 26 hours on the plane, you'll be home.

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.

00:44:59All right, thank you.

00:45:14Okay, here we go.

00:45:16Thank you so much.

00:45:18Bye.

00:45:30Excuse me.

00:45:37This is Savannah.

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.

00:46:11I would say that it's not really painful for 95% of the surrogates.

00:46:20Only I would say 5%.

00:46:22And so 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

00:46:32only, where they remembered the baby.

00:46:38.

00:46:40.

00:46:41.

00:47:24In the morning, I had to go to bed at night, but I didn't have to go to bed at

00:47:27night.

00:47:31I was tired of my stomach, and I was tired of my stomach.

00:47:58Home for Vasanti is one room shared amongst seven.

00:48:08I was working with my sister and I studied in a little bit.

00:48:13I was working with my sister.

00:48:19I got 4,000 rupees in the month and took 4-4.

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.

00:48:55In the house, everyone knows that this is a test tube baby, and I told them that we can't live

00:49:10in the house.

00:49:13When the money comes to the house, they invest in the house.

00:49:18I think that's why we live in this house.

00:49:21We're in the house, the younger ones, the younger ones, and the younger ones.

00:49:29The homes, the younger ones, and the younger ones.

00:49:55Dr Patel's modern home sits a few miles from the clinic.

00:50:00She'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 were introduced in medical college, there was a dance program and she had more experience

00:50:36in dance than us.

00:50:37We were all beginners so we were supposed to give a stage show and a few of the people,

00:50:44her friends, they introduced her to us and she was managing this show.

00:50:50So that's how I came to meet her.

00:51:07I danced for my daughter's wedding three years back.

00:51:23My plan is to hand over the practice and the clinic to my son who is, as we say, both

00:51:30of 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

00:51:42be some pressure.

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, the first thing

00:51:53he 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 why you are the controversial

00:52:18person and why there is something wrong about it.

00:52:22No, no.

00:52:22You have to take it to the pinch of salt.

00:52:24You 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, asking

00:52:39somebody to keep the baby in her womb for nine months rather than that they should accept

00:52:44childlessness.

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, what

00:53:04is IVF also.

00:53:06There was so much of criticism from the medical fraternity.

00:53:10People used to shy away from me that, oh, she is doing surrogacy.

00:53:15doctors saying that this procedure of surrogacy is unethical or immoral or it's exploitation.

00:53:23And it bothers you to a certain extent.

00:53:27It hurts you also.

00:53:28And there are so many hypocrites all around who would themselves be doing it but openly

00:53:34criticizing this procedure.

00:53:35That hurts you even more.

00:53:38I still want to work for another ten years.

00:53:41And the success stories of each couple and each surrogate keeps me going.

00:53:51Having had blastocysts placed inside her two weeks earlier, 28-year-old Papiya is about

00:53:58to 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 or in nine

00:54:39months' time with $8,000.

00:54:41...

00:54:45...

00:54:47...

00:54:48There, there is a lot of people.

00:54:50There's no way.

00:54:51Oh my god, come on.

00:54:57That's okay.

00:54:57Now that we'll put a piece of paper on the other side.

00:55:07I'm not going to put the paper this way.

00:55:11The paper is not going to get it.

00:55:13I'm not going to put a paper on the other side.

00:55:14I'm not going to put my paper on the other side.

00:55:16The paper is not going to take away from me.

00:55:23at dr. Patel's clinic the surrogates receive regular check-ups the results of

00:55:29which are emailed to her clients dr. Patel has now received news on Michael

00:55:35and Veronica's attempt at starting a family through surrogacy this is that

00:55:40lovely couple who has gone through a lot tried everything possible very jolly

00:55:46couple their attitude was very positive Veronica when she had come over here she

00:55:53said that she had always dreamt that she would be having twins one day for

00:55:58overseas clients the news of whether they're to become a family is sent via

00:56:03email the beta at CG count was high so we were expecting twins and when we are

00:56:12doing her scan and seeing their twins we feel it's so really wonderful that her

00:56:19dream is being fulfilled how does it feel to be the person responsible for that I

00:56:27would say it's not one person but it's a team which is responsible but it gives a

00:56:31feeling of great joy and I would say most importantly job satisfaction it's

00:56:43fascinating's last day in the surrogate house before she's moved to the clinic her

00:56:49children who believed she was being treated for trapped wind have joined her I'm

00:56:55getting married for her children who believed she was being treated for her

00:57:00I mean hospital these are hospital the I'm just in my

00:57:06my

00:57:07I'm not going to put a thing in no more start

00:57:24My child has told me that I'm going to do something.

00:57:28I don't know.

00:57:29I'm going to tell you.

00:57:30But if you don't understand this,

00:57:32I'm going to tell you that I'm going to do this work.

00:57:36I'm going to tell you.

00:57:41I don't know many people.

00:57:43Because I'm going to live here.

00:57:54I'm going to eat you.

00:58:00I don't know.

00:58:06Yeah, I'm going to eat.

00:58:11I'm going to eat you.

00:58:14I'm going to eat you.

00:58:20I'm going to eat you.

00:58:22I had to say that once I was angry and I was angry with the kids.

00:58:31I had to say that I was angry with the kids.

00:58:35I did not mention that my parents came in the house.

00:58:40I couldn't tell my parents that my kids were 10-25-25,

00:58:47so I didn't see them.

00:58:52yeah

00:58:53I want to

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00:59:23The clinic is full of other expectant surrogate mothers, but a free bed is finally found for Vasanti

00:59:36Yeah

00:59:46Have you ever regretted a case?

00:59:49Hmm

00:59:51Once in a while yes when I feel that mostly I'm being more

00:59:58Considering about the surrogates

01:00:01Once in a while I've come across a case where the couple would say we don't even want to look

01:00:05at her then you feel

01:00:06hurt that why did I do for them

01:00:09Had I known that they would do like this I would have never done that

01:00:12Because 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

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01:00:27Barbara's surrogate Edan has been visiting baby Saron twice a day for the last few months

01:00:33It's the second time she's been a surrogate mother but never before has she spent so long with the child

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01:12:11definitely

01:12:11consider myself as a feminist

01:12:13right from my childhood days I was brought up in such a way that

01:12:17just because you're a female you cannot do this or you can do this is not existing because my mother

01:12:23herself

01:12:25I'm talking about 40 years back was a very strong feminist and that is what keeps me going and that

01:12:31is what I explain to my surrogates

01:12:33that

01:12:34Just don't take any domestic violence or any nonsense from your family you are doing a very good job and

01:12:42at the end of the day when you come out you should be the leader of your family

01:12:50In what she feels is part of her feminist mission for the surrogates Dr. Patel has introduced various lessons for

01:12:57them inside the house

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01:13:02My cushion cover

01:13:03Embroidery they are learning over here

01:13:04We want them to utilize their time in the best way learn all this and once they leave the surrogate

01:13:10house they can get some earning out of this at home if they get this embroidery work they can still

01:13:16be at home do this work and earn some money so we are training them same thing with this with

01:13:21the

01:13:22training them as a beautician because they have a good scope they can work from home later on we are

01:13:28planning to start a cooperative within a year wherein we will find clients for them for beauty treatment etc so

01:13:35that they get work through us and they get earning through us

01:13:39That is the thing I want in them to groom them overall not just give a baby finish take your

01:13:46money and go away but change their outlook towards life

01:13:50Every client, who actually takes care of a baby, not to groom them or to�i, not to groom them or

01:13:55to the new person's day, not to groom them or to groom them, whatever the whole world we are trying

01:13:59to get them

01:14:02If it's the new person is the only person that we understand with them to come to get them through

01:14:03the day they feel like being the last year

01:14:03But let me tell you guys how to understand

01:14:06We are young people and you are new people who have our

01:14:09We will see 10 years of life for us in our life too

01:14:12We will see that life and this can be true

01:14:13That happens

01:14:25Make her a more confident female and make her self-sufficient.

01:14:35That is what I want to see in a surrogate.

01:14:51Having been in labour for a prolonged period, Dr Patel has opted to give Vasanti a caesarean

01:14:57in order to deliver the Japanese baby she's been carrying.

01:15:29The Japanese baby is a huge part of the Japanese baby.

01:15:31I have a lot of people who are still trying to get to the Japanese baby.

01:15:33Babo

01:15:35Babo

01:15:36Babo joined the party

01:15:37The party

01:15:39Babo joined the party

01:15:40Babo

01:15:42We have to take a vacation

01:15:46Next day only within 24

01:16:02Like most newborns at the clinic

01:16:04The Japanese boy is immediately

01:16:07Taken straight to the neonatal hospital

01:16:09Where it can be collected

01:16:11Once the parents are in India

01:16:43As Dr Patel approaches

01:16:45The 10th anniversary of her surrogacy work

01:16:47She has new plans

01:16:50Despite the criticism

01:16:52Death threats

01:16:53And media attention

01:16:55She wants her project

01:16:56To be bigger than ever before

01:16:59It's a vision

01:17:00That I'm seeing

01:17:02An institute for surrogacy

01:17:04Where total care

01:17:06Of the gestational mother

01:17:10Genetic couple

01:17:11And the newborn baby

01:17:12Is under one roof

01:17:16The idea is to

01:17:18Have a unique clinic

01:17:19Which could be the first of its kind in the world

01:17:27This is the main building

01:17:28Which is about 85,000 square feet

01:17:30This is the main building

01:17:31And the building behind that

01:17:34Is about 15,000 square feet

01:17:35And that is the utility area

01:17:39These are the engineers

01:17:40That's Mr Yogesh

01:17:42Mr Pratik

01:17:43All of them are engineers

01:17:44The new engineers

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

01:17:55Look, the whole idea

01:17:57Is to create a nest

01:17:58Where we'll have the surrogates

01:18:00Staying at the lower ground floor

01:18:02With various activities

01:18:04Which they can pursue

01:18:06Upper ground will be

01:18:07The outpatient department

01:18:09Where all the consultancy

01:18:10And the diagnostic department

01:18:11And the gift shop

01:18:12And the gallery of the

01:18:15Skills of the surrogates

01:18:17Whatever we display

01:18:18Will be there

01:18:19And the second floor

01:18:20Will be a neonatal care unit

01:18:22Then there will be

01:18:24Service apartments

01:18:24For the couples

01:18:25Who come to collect the babies

01:18:27So the idea is that

01:18:28Couple is there

01:18:29The baby is there

01:18:30And the surrogate is also there

01:18:32Everyone under one roof

01:18:38And I'm also visualising

01:18:40One step further

01:18:40I want most of my ex-surrogates

01:18:43To be employed

01:18:44And have a work opportunity

01:18:45Over there

01:18:46Because then

01:18:47Someday I'm thinking

01:18:48Of a hospital

01:18:48Of the surrogates

01:18:50Run by the surrogates

01:18:51And I feel that

01:18:53Surrogacy

01:18:54Is

01:18:55One woman helping

01:18:57Another woman

01:18:58And only a woman

01:18:59Will understand

01:19:00The feeling of

01:19:01Both these females

01:19:02Who are unable

01:19:04To live

01:19:05A life of their dream

01:19:22One woman

01:19:23Is

01:19:30It's the final day in India

01:19:32for Barbara, husband Michelle, and baby Saron.

01:19:44This is actually a diaper bag, but I'm going to figure it out on route, Michelle.

01:19:51We're a little bit pressed for time.

01:19:55We've been giving all kinds of things away.

01:19:58Our surrogate has gone home with about five bags of things.

01:20:02She's got a new iron and a new pedal and anything that we're, you know,

01:20:08it's just too large for us to take back, though, that she could use.

01:20:24She's officially, you know, has his own Canada passport here, right, as 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.

01:20:39He's punishable with imprisonment for a period of 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.

01:20:53Yeah.

01:20:57Tee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee

01:21:01-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee.

01:21:10It's also time for a Dan to say goodbye to the baby she held for nine months and

01:21:16nursed for four more. Now I just need to run around and do some tips to do all the

01:21:34stuff. And where's the cook? The cook's in the staff room. So if you can give him one of those

01:21:45for us, please man. I gave him 700. So he already has a foot back. Can you break up a

01:21:54couple of 500s for me? Yeah, give me some change. And you did a lot more for me than a

01:22:03lot of the others.

01:22:04You'll get two. Okay? Anybody have five 100s now? No? Okay, I'll have to leave that seven for him. April

01:22:157th, so 14th, 21th. Is that right?

01:22:24Oh my goodness. Is there any room in there for us?

01:22:32Those are the two Skypes. Michelle and me. Two emails. Our full address.

01:22:45All right. All right. Here, let's put this. Are you okay? You want to say your final book goodbyes or

01:22:52are you okay?

01:23:00Give her a hug. Give her a hug. Give her dad a hug.

01:23:20Thank you so much.

01:23:24It's gonna be okay. We'll see you again.

01:23:27Love you.

01:23:29Love you.

01:23:31Love you.

01:23:32Love you.

01:23:34Love you.

01:23:35Love you.

01:23:36Love you.

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.

01:24:15She was in the hospital, but she was feeling sad.

01:24:26She was in the hospital, but she was in the hospital.

01:24:38I have been very busy since the past.

01:24:43I came to my house and I have been very busy.

01:24:48I took my home to 5 seconds.

01:24:52I was very busy when I was very busy.

01:24:58I was very busy by the time.

01:24:59I stayed for a year and I was very busy.

01:25:04I was very busy with my wife and I was too busy.

01:25:08Then I was like, my sister was born in a family.

01:25:14He was born with my children.

01:25:17They were born with a child.

01:25:27My husband and father are born with a child.

01:25:32The child is born with a child.

01:25:36When I was born I was born again.

01:25:40I was born again.

01:25:42I was born again.

01:25:44And my life was my dream with my dream.

01:25:49father

01:25:51.

01:25:53.

01:25:54.

01:25:56.

01:25:56Hi, I am here to speak with my parents.

01:26:03I remember that children are growing and growing up.

01:26:09Piano shows that the future of my family is growing up.

01:26:13It's a great future.

01:26:16And the future of my family is still growing up.

01:26:34Do you think it's a shame that they have to do surrogacy?

01:26:40For the couple or for the surrogate?

01:26:41For the surrogate financially?

01:26:43No, I don't think it's a shame.

01:26:46It's a very special woman who can become a surrogate.

01:26:49It's not for all.

01:26:51And it's not easy to become a surrogate.

01:26:55And I'll repeat, it takes a very, very special woman to become a surrogate.

01:27:00So she should never be ashamed of it.

01:27:03But instead she should come out in the open and say proudly,

01:27:06Yes, I have been a surrogate and I have changed the life of this couple.

01:27:14Okay, done.

01:28:06Going wild next this evening as we meet the Twitchers in a very British obsession in just a few moments.

01:28:13Thanks.

01:28:14Thanks.

01:28:16Thanks.

01:28:20Thanks.

01:28:21Thanks.

01:28:24Thanks.

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