Jenny, 28, has had six babies – two of them for Natalie. She doesn’t get paid, because commercial surrogacy is illegal in the UK. So what motivates British surrogates – and what happens when an agreement goes wrong?
At 15, Natalie Smith discovered that she had no womb: “There you are, growing into a woman, and suddenly you find out that you can’t have children. You’ve never really thought about having children at that point, but what you realise is that it has always been there, that assumption that you will.”
The condition was a result of a birth disorder called Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), and the diagnosis was devastating: “It changed everything. It shifted my values, it exploded my friendships.”
We chatted for seven hours. It was very like meeting my husband, that feeling she was The One
I breastfed my baby there, on a bench in the high court. And then I was told I had to hand her over
There is no sense in my mind in bringing children into the world, and then trying to figure out what to do with them
My son has three friends in his year at school born by surrogates. There’s been a real shift
Related: India bans foreigners from hiring surrogate mothers
Continue reading...from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1LrW13b
ليست هناك تعليقات:
إرسال تعليق