Bangalore: A mother of three, 30-year-old Reshma Bano from Mysore has been staying away from home for the past four months but for a cause. She is pregnant with yet another baby but this time it is not her own. She is nesting somebodys baby in her womb to pay her rent! For Bano, a surrogate mother, it was financial problems at home that forced her to leave her three children with her parents and then take this big step of bringing someone elses child into the world.
Like Bano, hundreds of women come to Bangalore to rent their womb to support their broken families and give their children good education, food and shelter. Playing with her dupatta, two month pregnant Puspalatha claims she does not miss her two children aged 2 and 5. I have to take care of this foetus in my womb to give my children a good life, she mumbled without looking up.
Puspalathas husband is a bus conductor and has no problem with his wife becoming a surrogate. To make ends meet, Pushpalatha took up the responsibility. There were financial problems at home and I had to do this to protect our lives and children. There was no other way out and it is a respectable job, she sighed.
Most surrogate mothers come from poverty-stricken families where their husbands have left them and they have no option but to opt for surrogacy. After the gestation period is complete, they pay debts, start
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