Life of Surrogates at Pahlajani Test Tube Baby Center

Referring to one of the news publishing about social activists demanding to ban commercial surrogacy and to regularise it like egg donation. In the article, the data of three states are cited in reference to illiteracy, poverty and unemployment of women, who are mostly unaware of the contract terms and agree to become a surrogate mother mainly for funding the education of their children.

However, the scenario is different for women agreeing to assist infertile couples for surrogacy in Raipur. Although, Chhattisgarh has high women illiteracy rate but women who agree to become surrogate mothers for interfile couples at 

Pahlajani Test Tube Baby Center are given best understanding of the contract to ensure transparency and safeguard of the rights of both surrogate and infertile couple. 

To ensure that a surrogate does not feel exploited, a better understanding of her expectations from the process is taken. Considering that surrogacy is “commercial” in India, the balance in cost of surrogacy in India and remuneration to the surrogate mother is maintained.

At Pahlajani Surrogacy Care, the surrogates are kept under best medical care. They live in an environment of peace and sisterhood under the roof of Pahlajani Surrogacy Home, where they are given best medical assistance.

Indian surrogacy is often targeted about the authenticity of contract signed between commissioning parents and surrogates. The fact cannot be denied that there are several clinics which do not adhere to the provisions of remunerations. However, Pahlajani Surrogacy Care ensures that the rights of a surrogate, who is assisting a childless couple to complete their family.

Pahlajani Test Tube Baby Center is the only center in Chhattisgarh having an in-house embryologist and does not conduct IVF/ICSI in batches. With the number of successes in helping the childless couples in having their babies by providing best medical assistance to both surrogate and commissioning couple, we have climbed another step in the ladder of human connection. Knowing that giving birth for someone else is a job only a selfless human being with most giving heart can perform, Pahlajani Surrogacy Care derives its confidence from surrogates for showing their faith and performing commendable jobs for couples.

Along with the celebration of different festivals with the surrogates, we celebrate Mother’s Day, Women’s Day and even organise plantation drives for surrogates. Surrogates are made to feel like home in our surrogacy homes. The reports about the violation of laws and shortchanging the surrogates are baffling. Rights of surrogates should be safeguarded and they should be given best medical care.

Dr Neeraj Pahlajani

Surrogacy and Adoption in India

Surrogacy 

Adoption and surrogacy are the two options to bring a child into the family.

The desire for a genetic link and increasing desire of prospective parents to monitor the child's prenatal care and medical history has made surrogacy a more preferred option.

The parents wanting a child through surrogacy need to go through a few steps,

1. Locating the surrogacy clinic,
2. Screening and working with an appropriate surrogate mother,
3. Medically and psychologically examination of surrogate,
4. Establishing a legal contract, and
5. Finally transferring embryos to the surrogate's uterus and confirming the pregnancy.

Adoption

For those parents who simply yearn for a child—genetically related or not—adoption can be both a compassionate and enriching experience. In fact, many parents choose adoption precisely so that they might provide a better family life not only for themselves, but also for the adopted child whose need, after all, is apparent.

Below are the seven stages of adoption in India as defined by Central Adoption Resource Authority, Ministry of Women and Child Development,

1.  Registration
2.  Pre-adoption Counselling and Preparation of the PAP(s)
3.  Home Study and Other requirements
4.  Referral and Acceptance
5.  Pre-adoption foster care
6.  Legal Procedure
7.  Follow up visits and post-adoption services

Dr Neeraj Pahlajani

Are You Willing to Become a Gestational Surrogate?

To become a gestational surrogate for a couple is a decision that requires huge amount of emotional investment. The whole phase of 10-12 months and even the period after that is life changing. For a woman, who wants to become a gestational surrogate, she might be surrounded with certain reservations. Some of those frequently asked questions are answered below,

1. Should a woman have had a previous pregnancy and delivery before becoming a gestational surrogate?

Yes. Before becoming a surrogate for someone else, you need to have gone through it once for yourself before you decide you are willing to go through same for someone else. Women who have healthy, strong, bodies that provide safe and nourishing places for an embryo to grow into a fetus and be delivered as a baby are selected for gestational surrogacy process. You would be medically examined and asked whether you have completed a pregnancy without any serious medical conditions.

2. Are gestational surrogates genetically related to the baby?

No. It is because the gametes, i.e., the egg and sperm used to make that embryo are of intended parents or donors and you are required to carry the embryo formed from those gametes. Therefore, the child would not be genetically related to the gestational surrogate.

3. What are the age requirements for gestational surrogates?

A woman must be at least 21 years of age and below 40.

4. Is there anything required from surrogate’s partner?

Yes. Your partners needs to assist you in,

• Emotional support

• Infectious Disease Testing. In medical screening (HIV, Hepatitis B and C, CMV, and any other sexually transmitted diseases or disorders) to avoid any high risk behaviors is also important for your partner (no tattoos with unsterile needles, new sexual partners, etc.).

• Participation in psychological meeting.

5. Are gestational surrogates allowed to have sex?

If you are sexually active, you can generally continue your intimate relationship without restrictions. A healthy sex life is beneficial to your relationship and can reduce stress. However, some IVF clinics may place restrictions on intercourse around the time of the embryo transfer or if you are pregnant and experiencing bleeding. The medical provider at the clinic would be the person to make the final recommendation about intercourse.

6. Does any part of the gestational surrogacy process hurt?

Becoming pregnant as a surrogate does involve a number of vaginal ultrasounds and speculum exams. These exams are not pleasant and if they are painful, you should let the medical provider seeing you. There are modifications that can be made to make the experience less uncomfortable.

The embryo transfer often requires the surrogate to have a full bladder. It may sound odd, but that is one of the most common things people complain about! The actual embryo transfer, at most would be a little bit crampy, for most clients.

7. Can I continue the medications I regularly take during the process?

Yes, most medications are safe during pregnancy. Pahlajani Surrogacy Care 

will review each medication you take and discuss it in the context of becoming pregnant. The fertility medical provider you will be seeing at the IVF clinic is the person who will make the final decision about which medications you can take, which ones may need to be switched, and if any medicines need to be stopped. Your health and well being is a top priority, so no changes will be made without your agreement.

As a gestational surrogate, you would be expected to take prenatal vitamins and possibly some supplements, based on the vitamin you are taking. These costs would be reimbursed, per your Gestational Surrogacy Agreement.

Surrogacy after Embryo Implantation Failure

India is acknowledged for being a global leader in IVF technology for two basic reasons - surrogates are easily available and IVF treatment is much less expensive, many couples travel to India for surrogacy treatment.

Typically, women who ask for surrogacy are older women, or women who have failed many IVF cycles. Surrogacy is the solution to their problem of repeated failed embryo implantation.

Here there is a common reason why embryo implantation fails. Some women think that it is because of their defective uterus but actually the implantation fails because of genetically abnormal embryos. Now, if the embryos are abnormal it might be the reason for an abnormal baby. While these defects are often random, they are commoner in older women. This is because the eggs of older women have more genetically abnormalities, because they have aged and have genetic defects, which cannot be screened for.

As women get older, their fertility declines. Most assume that this is because their reproductive system is aging - and for most women their reproductive system consists of their uterus. With reduction in fertility the functioning of uterus becomes poor.

Surrogacy in India has benefits considering the women being more receptive towards the entire process and the cost of surrogacy in India is affordable. Even Indian laws are flexible. With gestational surrogacy, infertile couples can pass on their genetics to children. Therefore, surrogacy after repeated embryo implantation failure should be considered after consultation with doctor.

Dr Neeraj Pahlajani

What Questions You Need to Ask Before Becoming a Surrogate?

Few questions that you need to ask before becoming a surrogate are as below-

1. What is your current health condition?

The most important consideration is good physical health. A surrogate mother in India should not have long term or life-threatening illness, should not be a smoker and or use illegal substances. Also, surrogate mother should not be obese because of health risks that would pose for both you and the baby. Other risks include diabetes and high blood pressure. Therefore, the surrogate should have normal Body Mass Index (BMI).

2. Stressed about your financial condition?

Even though you are becoming a surrogate for financial purpose but being stressed-out over money is an undesirable state at any time. Surrogates should not be worried about money. Your mental health can affect your physical well being. Therefore, the amount you receive for becoming a surrogate should never be the main or only reason for wanting to become a surrogate mother.

3. Who are your supporters?

If you chose to be a surrogate, you need to be clear about who all would be around you to assist and support you throughout the process. Although, Pahlajani Surrogacy Home gives you an environment of love and care you need to be around your family and friends who are enthusiastic and positive about her decision to help another family realize their dreams. Also, the prospective surrogate must have reliable transportation, and be able and willing to travel as necessary – for screening, meeting and matching with the intended parents, in-vitro fertilization, and routine medical testing.

4. Why you need to be comfortable about sharing your personal history?

Surrogates need to be open about their medical history and lifestyle with the intended couple as well as doctor. You need to be comfortable about sharing the history of pregnancies, abortions, and/or miscarriages; your psychological stability and any periods of depression or mental illness and your record regarding sexually transmitted disease.

Dr Neeraj Pahlajani

Surrogacy - Laws and Rights

Employment Rights for Surrogate Parents

Legal landscape surrounding surrogacy in India is cultivated on child-protection perspective. It was the day in 2002 on which surrogacy was legalized in India, when legal authorities started striving to push the sector on legal tracks.

India is abode for thousands of surrogate mothers, who are bearing children for Indian as well as foreign childless couples. The sector has widened its horizon in years, adding new criterion to safeguard the rights of surrogate mothers in India, recipient couples and the children born through surrogacy.

In a stride to ensure rights to them, the Madras High Court held that a woman who had had a child through surrogacy was entitled to maternity leave on March 5, 2013.

It was when a mother, who had child through surrogacy with the consent of her husband, after her 20-year-old son was killed in a road accident in 2009.  She applied for maternity leave to look after the new born after the surrogate mother gave birth to a girl baby in February 2011.  She also applied to include the child under the family medical insurance scheme. However, her employer rejected the application, on the ground that there was no provision in the rules for granting leave to those who have a child through surrogacy. 

Later, the Judge, Justice K Chandru said, "Even in the case of adoption, the adoptive mother does not give birth to the child, but yet the necessity of bonding of the mother with the adoptive child has been recognized by the Central government, therefore, the petitioner is entitled for leave.”

"This court does not find anything immoral and unethical about the petitioner having obtained a child through surrogate arrangement," the Judge observed.

The mother was granted leave on the same terms applicable to those who had become parents via adoption. Also, the employers were ordered to add the child to the insurance scheme.    

Rights of Children Born Through Surrogacy in India

In surrogacy, the rights of child/children born are to be respected without discrimination of any kind including birth or other status.  While this provision was originally intended to protect illegitimate children, its inclusiveness suggests a generous and expansive application, including children born of surrogacy.

Under one of the seven guidelines issued by Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi pertaining to surrogacy in India, the foreign couple would require ‘exit’ permission before their return journey from India and would need to carry a certificate from concerned ART clinic regarding the fact that child/children have been duly taken custody by the foreign couple and the liabilities toward the India surrogate mother are fully discharged as per agreement. A copy of birth certificate(s) of surrogate child/children will be retained by Foreigner Regional Registration Office (FRRO)/Foreigners Registration Office (FRO) along with photocopies of the passport and VISA of the foreign parents.

Adoption of child under Indian Laws

Also, the intended parents can apply for adoption under the Guardian and Wards Act. As per the provisions the foreign citizens and NRIs are subject to the Guardian and Wards Act of 1890. Under this act, the adoptive parent is only the guardian of the child until she reaches 18 years of age. Foreign citizens and NRIs are supposed to formally adopt their child according to the adoption laws and procedures in the country of their residence. This must be carried out within two years of the individual becoming a child’s guardian.

But as per Indian Laws pertaining to adoption the parents can’t chose a specific child for adoption. Also the ICMR guidelines under Guideline 3.10.1 require the intended parents to adopt the child if through genetic fingerprinting they can’t establish the biological link between the child and the intended parents.

Dr Neeraj Pahlajani 

Pahlajani Surrogacy India: Self IVF Embryo, Donor Eggs & Self Sperms, Self Eggs & Donor Sperms Surrogacy

Are you looking out for some good and affordable surrogates who can lend you their womb? Well if this is the case then you can think of hunting for some good options; that is Pahlajani surrogacy India. We have some great Surrogacy programs through which you can get cheap surrogacy. In case you willing to go for surrogacy but cannot do that because of the cost then not to worry. There is a great alternative that you can choose for this problem of yours. Today there is reasonable affordable surrogacy available in some parts of the world. You can go there and get affordable surrogates. The best option available with you for the purpose of reasonable surrogacy is India. Here you can easily realize your Dream of "own" baby with surrogacy and that too in a very reasonable price.

India has become the top international surrogacy destination for couples and even single men and women who have not been able to have children through natural means. The success of the procedure in Pahlajani Surrogacy India is greatly attributed to the cutting edge technology, highly qualified fertility specialists, social acceptance of surrogacy, and low cost of surrogacy, all leading to India's high success rate in gestational surrogacy.

Going for surrogacy is a very big decision. It involves lot of ethical, moral, and also financial issues. This is the reason you need to be very careful while taking a step ahead in choosing surrogates. The surrogacy is a very expensive process to.

But for your knowledge there are also affordable surrogacy options available in many places. There are few countries where the cost of surrogacy is not that high as it is in some countries. So those who are willing to go for affordable surrogacy can think of this option. 

Surrogacy or Surrogate refers to alternate or a substitute. In medical terminology, surrogacy indicates an arrangement whereby a woman agrees to undergo the pregnancy, labor, and delivery for another individual who either cannot through artificial insemination or surgical implantation of a fertilized ovum or embryo.

Commercial surrogacy is legal in India, as recognized by the Supreme Court of India in 2002. Now we can say that India is one among the emerging country as a leader in international surrogacy and fertility. Indian surrogates have been increasingly popular with fertile couples in industrialized nations because of the relatively low cost. Indian clinics are at the same time becoming more competitive, not just in the pricing, but in the hiring and retention of Indian females as surrogates.

Today many couples and singles from around the world travel to India, in search of their quest of their own baby with surrogacy. Simply because there are some good clinics and great IVF Infertility specialist doctors in India, infertility clinics in India. Working with reputable IVF specialist doctors with “state of the art” medical technology in India is an experience. 

Surrogacy is a very expensive process and lots of money will be required. In such a situation if at all you spend money in a very careless manner then it will be far more expensive then before therefore you will have to keep this in your mind and then only take any kind of decision related to the affordable surrogacy for your better family future.

Here Pahlajani Surrogacy India provides you, each and every possible process for surrogacy and maintained also very high success rate of Surrogacy with very cheap and affordable cost. You can start the process of Surrogacy by your Self IVF Embryos or Self sperms and Donor egg or Self eggs and donor sperms.