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India To Create Multi-National Baby

August 20, 2007 at 4:35 PM General Health News

Parents-to-be Nicole Brown, 45, an acupuncture physician and her husband Scott 39, an insurer, hope to conceive in India and deliver a child in the US after a full term of pregnancy. Yet this is no ordinary baby.

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While Nicole has her origins in Vietnam, Scott is Caucasian. The couple live in Miami, Florida. Issueless even after three years of marriage, they decided to try other options.

In order to preserve Nicole�s oriental ethnicity, they chose a Vietnamese egg donor. In addition, they searched through three continents, traveling through Argentina, Greece, Vietnam for top medical expertise. Finally they decided for India.

This multi-racial, transcontinental, two-and-a-half-year travelogue is an indication of the personal touch and professional maturity of India�s medical outsourcing industry. Not only can India offer the world top-rung artificial reproductive techniques, it can also do things that count a lot, like running insurance checks for US companies and verifying genetic information for clients in Europe.

Says Nicole: �Doctors told me my eggs were not good enough to conceive. We tried in-vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles � a technique by which eggs are fertilized outside the womb � a couple of times in the US but egg donors were expensive, charging a minimum of $8,000 (Rs 3.2 lakh).�

Money matters eventually led the couple to try searching elsewhere. �First we went to Argentina in December 2005, but were not satisfied with the service,� recollects Scott. �Then we tried a few packages over the Internet in Greece where they were coupling tourism packages with IVF deals.

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