Tuesday, 30 July 2013

kiran infertility centre newsletter

http://issuu.com/kiraninfertilitycenter/docs/surrogacy_kic_newsletter_-_may-_jun &nbs...

No guidelines for surrogacy for applying passports!!

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130730/news-current-affairs/article/no-guidelines-surrogacy each country where surrogacy is legal does have an application process for applying for a passport for a newborn post birth. we at the Kiran infertility centre have helped couples from more than 21 different nationalities have babies through our surrogacy program. during the past four years our legal team have learnt the process involved in applying for these passports and now they can safely say that they are well versed with the process. there are different...

Monday, 29 July 2013

Surrogacy laws inconsistent??

are they?  the ICMR draft bill 2010 runs into hundreds of pages pretty much covering all the aspects of the Assisted reproductive technology,still the reporter feels that the laws are inconsistent/inadequate http://www.thehindu.com/features/education/research/surrogacy-laws-inconsistent/article4960385.ece?homepage=true let us see a few points she raises and lets see if we can answer them to her satisfaction. question 1>There is no stipulation on the number of times an intending couple or individual can make use of surrogacy. Answer-...

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Sudan national moves HC against surrogacy norms

A Sudan national Monday moved Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging the guidelines of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) restricting single foreign nationals and unmarried couples from coming to India for purposes of surrogacy on medical visas. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sudan-national-moves-hc-against-surrogacy-norms/1145932/ well the matter is subjudice now,so i cannot somment much but hopefully things go back to the way they were before the order came into affect albeit with regulations and monitoring or all Surrogacy clinics. Dr.Samit...

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Surrogate children in India deprived of mother's milk ????

Goes the headline in a major Indian news paper!!the reporter states that "The Health Ministry guidelines on the regulation of ART clinics fail to address the issue of breast feeding for surrogate children".according to the journo"in their haste to hold their babies in their arms, commissioning parents tend to overlook the infant’s need for mother’s milk, despite the fact that is has been scientifically established that mother’s milk is a critical source of nutrition for the infant". whilst the headline is true it is misleading as  babies...

Monday, 15 July 2013

How music gives IVF eggs good vibrations by making them more likely to get fertilised

Some of the colleagues of mine are attending the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology’s annual conference in London and told me about an interesting presentation by a group of spanish researchers that Playing music to an egg in a dish in an IVF lab increased the chances of it being fertilised by 5 per cent. The Spanish researchers believe that the tiny vibrations produced by music give fertilisation a helping hand,They think the vibrations may ease the passage of nutrients into the egg and speed the removal of toxic waste,...

Surrogacy abroad: updated information for intended parents from the united Kingdom.

Latest news is that the Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) recently updated its guidance for couples commissioning surrogacy in India apparently to make it more accessible to commissioning parents planning on traveling to India and provides clearer information about the various immigration requirements that intended parents must master in order to navigate a safe journey home to the UK with their surrogate born child. whilst this seems to be true on paper in reality the British consulate is the most difficult to navigate...

Friday, 12 July 2013

Globo tv chatshow on surrogacy in INDIA,

Below is the link of a tv Chat show featured on Brasilian Globo tv. it features our patients Ivonete,Pedro and their Daughter Estella who was born via the KIC surrogacy Program.its in portugese so i cannot understand much! http://globotv.globo.com/rede-globo/na-moral/v/conheca-a-historia-do-casal-ivonete-e-pedro-que-alugou-uma-barriga-na-india/2687689/ &nbs...

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

Relationships formed as a result of surrogacy are valued and enjoyed by surrogates and sustained over time!!

Preliminary results from a pioneering study at Cambridge University paint a positive picture of the relationships formed between surrogates and the families they help to create. “Our research shows that in the majority of cases, relationships formed as a result of surrogacy are valued and enjoyed by surrogates and sustained over time,” said Dr Jadva,who headed the report. we ourselves at the Kiran Infertility centre have done research on similar lines and the study is ready to be published in numerous international journals. &nbs...

Monday, 8 July 2013

Why Surrogacy in India is not a cold commercial transaction.

there was an Article in the Daily Mail Uk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-2357895/India-reduced-surrogacy-cold-commercial-transaction.html?ito=feeds-newsxml  on surrogacy again.it seems to me that the Daily mail has special vested interest in Indian Surrogacy.it also seems the Journo has not done a detailed study but seems to have based his article on numerous other articles written on similar lines by vested foreign journalists who are being paid by Clinics and agencies abroad who are afraid of loosing...

Thursday, 4 July 2013

got a very sweet message from a couple of Spanish parents.

Here is the letter of appreciation we recieved froma spanish couple Carlos and Christopher who had their gorgeous little baby Alba Citali through our surrogacy program. it is much appreciated by everyone at the clinic. DREAMS, COLORS and SMILES…   It has been more than 5 years since we wanted to achieve a dream: become fathers. Life had decided that we had to go through different experiences until make the step to write to...

Shah Rukh khan's surrogacy secret is out !!

well so it has finally been reported in the papers today that Bollywood actor Shah Rukh khan has become a father of a boy through surrogacy,apparently the baby was born pre term and needed to stay in the NICU for nearly two months. the TImes of India carried an article http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/relationships/parenting/Surrogacy-is-an-alternative-to-adoption/articleshow/20892864.cms trying to demystify surrogacy. now the same press was Anti surrogacy and screaming Exploitation just a few days back but now all of a sudden Surrogacy...

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

Court Order: Couple Who Hired An Illiterate Indian Woman As Surrogate Must Prove She Was Not Exploited

According to Media reports in a bizzarre turn of events an Australian gay couple who hired an  Indian woman to be the surrogate mother of their twins was ordered by a judge to return to India to prove she had not been exploited!!! apparently the surrogate mother had used a thumb print to sign a 29-page contract written in English. She gave birth to twins and handed them over to the same-sex couple in 2011. But in the Aussie Family Court earlier this month, Justice Ryan said she was concerned the woman had no idea what was in the...

Monday, 1 July 2013

How three parent babies will be born through surrogacy in the future!!

How three parent babies will be born through surrogacy in the future!! India and its Doctors has always been at the forefront of ground breaking medical procedures and research especially in the field of Assisted reproduction and Surrogacy. "Genetic diseases are a group of hereditary abnormalities due to a mutation in the mother's mitochondria,these diseases can affect one part of the body or multiple parts including the brain, kidneys, muscles, heart, eyes, and ears”. according to conservative estimates thousands of children across the...