It's been 3 months now since our 4th and final Indian attempt. The Indian bureaucracy machine is working as expected with the prospect on any resolution regarding unmarried couples access to Indian surrogacy a distant reality now.
Each day, we are glad of our move away from SI. After our last attempt, we received no correspondence from them until we received this e-mail in early April:
Dear GB & LC,
We have been
referred about your blog through a couple and have gone through it.
There are some points that we agree upon and have noted it and working
on it and some point that we have a different perspective. We wanted to
know how you would like to proceed as we have your frozen embryos. If
you are confident that you would not like to proceed with us then we
would request you to fill up the embryo and semen discard forms.
I think this e-mail sums up the clinic in a nutshell. Reading between the lines:
1. We've read the blog and don't care to provide any apology or comment about your claims because we have done nothing wrong
2. Are you going to pay us more money to cycle again?
3. If not, fill out the forms to dispose of your embryos/sperm so we no longer have to correspond with you.
At no time have we been contacted by either Dr Yash or Dr Sudhir to discuss our comments or claims. Their ambivelence is deafening, arrogance obvious and disinterest in their client welfare very clear. Again, it makes me wonder how SI treat their Surrogates if this is how they treat the "gravy train".
We're not prepared to go down the Thailand route just yet. The influx of IPs that would have otherwise gone to India worries us about corners being cut and fly-by-the-night operators out to rip people off. So we're considering domestic options of altrustic traditional or gestational surrogacy. It might be a little more tricky and time consuming, but at least we'll know that if we do get pregnant the Surrogate will have access to the some of the world's best healthcare and we'll know with absolute assurance that she is not living in a share house or be away from her family. I'm not saying whether this is good or bad, or if clinics in India are doing anything dodgy, but for our piece of mind it means a lot.
It's great to see that everyone that started blogs around the same time as us, now have 3-4 month old babies exceeding any expectations they ever had of being a parent. Congratulations to all those that have come before us and endured this incredible and emotional journey.
I am sure our time will come and when it does, I'm sure all the trials and tribulations to get to final destination will become distant memories and parenthood will exceed our expectations too!
Each day, we are glad of our move away from SI. After our last attempt, we received no correspondence from them until we received this e-mail in early April:
Dear GB & LC,
Greetings of the day!
I think this e-mail sums up the clinic in a nutshell. Reading between the lines:
1. We've read the blog and don't care to provide any apology or comment about your claims because we have done nothing wrong
2. Are you going to pay us more money to cycle again?
3. If not, fill out the forms to dispose of your embryos/sperm so we no longer have to correspond with you.
At no time have we been contacted by either Dr Yash or Dr Sudhir to discuss our comments or claims. Their ambivelence is deafening, arrogance obvious and disinterest in their client welfare very clear. Again, it makes me wonder how SI treat their Surrogates if this is how they treat the "gravy train".
We're not prepared to go down the Thailand route just yet. The influx of IPs that would have otherwise gone to India worries us about corners being cut and fly-by-the-night operators out to rip people off. So we're considering domestic options of altrustic traditional or gestational surrogacy. It might be a little more tricky and time consuming, but at least we'll know that if we do get pregnant the Surrogate will have access to the some of the world's best healthcare and we'll know with absolute assurance that she is not living in a share house or be away from her family. I'm not saying whether this is good or bad, or if clinics in India are doing anything dodgy, but for our piece of mind it means a lot.
It's great to see that everyone that started blogs around the same time as us, now have 3-4 month old babies exceeding any expectations they ever had of being a parent. Congratulations to all those that have come before us and endured this incredible and emotional journey.
I am sure our time will come and when it does, I'm sure all the trials and tribulations to get to final destination will become distant memories and parenthood will exceed our expectations too!
