BBC World News, 28 July 2011 Last updated at 00:14 GMT
Surrogate mothers in the Akshanka clinic in Anand,
Gujarat
The high cost of surrogacy in Europe
and the US means many Western women are outsourcing pregnancy abroad. Carolina,
from Ireland, travelled to India to pay Sonal to carry her baby. The World
Service's Your World followed the two women as they came to terms with the
emotional costs of the surrogacy.





