Bollywood Baby
Our experience with gestational surrogacy in Mumbai, India
Monday, November 5, 2012
Twin Boys!
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Injections, injections, and more injections
A major part of the process to retrieve Anna's eggs involves lots of hormone injections. According to Anna, being able to get 23 hormone injections from her husband has been the BEST part of her trip to India. All of the spent needles are below.
Here's the results schedule/results of everything in India.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Bombay!
We spent today as tourists and had a chance to see the main area of Mumbai. We took the train from the Santra Cruz station to Churchgate. We bought first class tickets and still were packed in like sardines. The trains in Mumbai are segregated into two classes and there are women-only coaches. Anna was the only woman in the first class coach. Here are a few pictures of the train ride in Mumbai.
Prince of Wales Museum
The cricket fields near Churchgate
The beach in Mumbai
The University of Mumbai.
Do pictures of cows in downtown ever get old?Prince of Wales Museum
The cricket fields near Churchgate
The beach in Mumbai
Monday, February 13, 2012
Day 1
I think anyone that's been to a big city feels a bit overwhelmed by its size and all of the people. Mumbai is no different. While driving around it appears that every possible square inch of road is occupied with some type of vehicle (taxis, motorcycles, and auto rikshaws). Lane lines are basically worthless or nonexistent as a two lane road easily becomes a four lane road. Crossing the street is like playing Frogger on crack. There is no such thing in as a break in traffic or crosswalks for pedestrians.
For our first day in Mumbai, our surrogacy agency arranged a driver to get us to our appointments. Our first stop was with Dr Meenakshi at the Yashoda Infertility and Healthcare Services Clinic. This is no small scale operation. Dr Meenakshi has delivered nearly 200 babies via surrogate in the last seven years! This month alone she has more than ten babies due. Here's the line-up of the a few surrogate mothers (I think?). The surrogate mothers are given the option to live above the clinic. They receive proper nutrition and have regular appointments with the doctor.
After our meeting with Dr. Meenakshi, we were directed to the Sunrise Clinic (on the other side of the city) to get a sonogram and meet with the gynecologist. Anna's initial sonogram showed that she had nine eggs in each ovary. That's a good sign! We were then instructed on how to do the Gonal hormone injections. Apparently the hormones are designed to mature the eggs for harvest. Of course, it will be my privilege to give Anna hormone injections for at least the next 5 days.
Also, in case anyone is wondering if we'll be having a boy or a girl, it lawfully has to remain unknown. Here's a shot of the sign in the clinic.
For our first day in Mumbai, our surrogacy agency arranged a driver to get us to our appointments. Our first stop was with Dr Meenakshi at the Yashoda Infertility and Healthcare Services Clinic. This is no small scale operation. Dr Meenakshi has delivered nearly 200 babies via surrogate in the last seven years! This month alone she has more than ten babies due. Here's the line-up of the a few surrogate mothers (I think?). The surrogate mothers are given the option to live above the clinic. They receive proper nutrition and have regular appointments with the doctor.
After our meeting with Dr. Meenakshi, we were directed to the Sunrise Clinic (on the other side of the city) to get a sonogram and meet with the gynecologist. Anna's initial sonogram showed that she had nine eggs in each ovary. That's a good sign! We were then instructed on how to do the Gonal hormone injections. Apparently the hormones are designed to mature the eggs for harvest. Of course, it will be my privilege to give Anna hormone injections for at least the next 5 days.
Also, in case anyone is wondering if we'll be having a boy or a girl, it lawfully has to remain unknown. Here's a shot of the sign in the clinic.
Forward to: Hotel Midland, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
During our two weeks in Mumbai, we'll be staying at the Hotel Midland in the Santa Cruz neighboorhood. The hotel advertises itself as a "luxury 2 star" hotel. Our room is small, but clean and quiet (except for the occasional airplane flyover). Luckily, we're on the third floor on the back of the hotel, away from the noisy street. The room also comes with a great breakfast on their rooftop terrace (eggs, toast, juice, and a wild card Indian sidedish).
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