Couple desperately seek a surrogate womb
After 11 years of trying to have a baby, Ankita Majumder wants to be like any other mother and hear the pitter patter of her child’s feet.
But she and her husband Richard Henderson, 40, need a woman willing to be their surrogate to do it — and they have taken their search online.
Majumder, 39, has had five miscarriages and undergone several attempts to get pregnant, including five rounds of artificial insemination, in vitro fertilisation, embryo transfers, ovulation induction (trying to increase ovulation with medication) and ovarian drilling (holes drilled in ovaries to release more eggs).
She estimated the procedures cost well over $10,000, a considerable sum for the West Auckland product page to aid their search.
A surrogate’s egg is fertilised by the father’s sperm and she would carry the child, with Majumder and Henderson adopting it after it was born.
Commercial surrogacy is not permitted here so the surrogate mother cannot be paid. However, minor expenses can be compensated. manager and postie.
At 21, Majumder was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, which makes it more difficult to get pregnant. Every time she miscarries, Majumder’s heart breaks over the child they could have had.
As a last resort the couple approached the Herald on Sunday to help them find a traditional surrogate. They have also started a Facebook