Babies born in November

Congratulations to all our November babies, with much joy and blessings...

Dear Indian Government, ICMR, Activists, NGO’s & Foreign Press, STOP TRYING TO SAVE INDIAN WOMEN FROM THEMSELVES!!!!

Dear Indian Government, ICMR, Activists, NGO’s & Foreign Press,

STOP TRYING TO SAVE INDIAN WOMEN FROM THEMSELVES!!!!

Recently, a friend of mine quoted her mother who grew up in extreme poverty in Portugal: “Wealthy people are always telling poor people how they CAN’T make money.”

This incredibly sage pearl of wisdom made me think of how Indian Surrogate mothers have recently been slammed, persecuted, shamed, pushed down and silenced by people who are trying to swoop in and save them. But what exactly are these self-proclaimed superheroes trying to save Indian surrogates from?

Despite the demeaning way media outlets depict Indian women, surrogates in India are not frail, stupid, illiterate, incompetent underdogs who need activists to speak on their behalf. Indian surrogates are strong, wise, compassionate, intelligent and poised. They own their bodies. They are making decisions pertaining to their own bodies and lives for the first time in India’s patriarchal history. Surrogacy empowers Indian women to lead their families out of crisis, poverty and other challenges. The compensation they receive can finance the education of their children, start a lucrative business or build a decent home for their own families.

I find it reviling when activists talk about Indian surrogacy, pronouncing the word money like it is a filthy word they are gagging on. It is easy for privileged people to trivialize the surrogates’ compensation because to us, money is easily accessible and even dispensable. But to an Indian surrogate mother, money can be life changing. We are not talking about mere dollar bills here. Within the context of Indian surrogacy, money = life. Money = education. Money = opportunity. Money = home. Money = a child’s future. Money = hope. Money = freedom. You see, it is not the money itself, but what the money represents. If activists had their way, they would be denying Indian women the option to have financial independence.

Surrogacy is a job. It is not prostitution. It is not a baby market. The job description is simple: to care and nurture another’s child, giving them a safe place to grow. This kind of work is respectable and noble. Surrogacy may not be a job most Westerners would choose, or even a wealthy, Indian government official. 

It seems that any job that involves nurturing is looked down upon. Consider how even teachers and nurses are treated by society. Surrogacy is a good, honest job that can provide for a family. Women in poor countries work hard. They always have and they always will. However, the trend among activists is to try to stop women in poor countries from performing difficult tasks. If a job is physically challenging, the job is labelled as exploitive, even if the work is a blessing to a family. This is both condescending and destructive. All women have a right to work in whatever capacity they choose. Never underestimate what an Indian woman can achieve.

The government of India has recently proposed a ban on surrogacy. What fascinates me about this proposal is that the Indian Government is claiming to be concerned about women being exploited. And yet, their plan to protect women from being exploited is to take away their basic human rights. The media and the government alike have been quite proactive in preventing Indian surrogates from speaking. Many surrogates are eager to talk to the press so they can assure the public they are not being exploited. The surrogates are not even allowed to speak in the same Supreme Court trial that is supposedly fighting for them.  The questionable (and ironically timed) memorandum sent by the ICMR to halt Indian Surrogacy before any laws were passed, was challenged by over 70 surrogates who stormed the gates of the ICMR, demanding to be heard. Indian surrogates have their own voices and are perfectly capable of speaking without permission of the government and the foreign press.

Apparently, the ICMR and various Indian government officials consider a woman’s ability to create life to be shameful and dirty. They compare surrogates to breeding cows and prostitutes. Clearly, they do not understand science if they think there is anything sexual about being a surrogate. The sexualisation and objectification of surrogates by the government is what demoralizes surrogates; not the act of having a baby, and certainly not the act of offering the gift of life to another. Does the ancient and rich culture of India not consider motherhood to be sacred? Why the double standard? Thank you, Ovary Police, for hijacking women’s private parts and dictating if, how and when a woman can have a baby.

After reading the proposed bill to ban surrogacy, I don’t know whether I should laugh, cry, scream or vomit. There is nothing in this proposed bill that will benefit the surrogates in any way. Nearly every item is presumptuous and theoretical babble as to whether or not a surrogate understands what is going on. I am utterly amazed at how government officials, (most of whom are men) seem to be experts on what it feels like to be pregnant, and whether or not a woman can tolerate pregnancy. 

Furthermore, we could all save a lot of valuable time, effort and stress if surrogates were given the chance to speak for themselves. This ridiculous court trial, discussing the interests of surrogates, has been going on since 2012, and the surrogates are still not allowed to speak! Tell me again about how the Indian government respects women.

I’ve heard the argument that within the context of poverty, there is no such thing as choices or consent. This notion is vomitus – it does not liberate women, but rather suggests that a woman’s socio-economic background determines whether or not she is allowed to make decisions for herself. Such a philosophy oppresses women and sanctions the act of privileged people making choices that affect a woman’s fate. Additionally, Indian surrogacy clinics that operate ethically do not permit extremely impoverished women to be surrogates, making the poverty argument moot. If the critics are concerned about poverty, their time would be better spent on taking action to end extreme poverty, rather than disempowering women from taking control of their own financial destiny.

In conclusion, if you feel sorry for Indian surrogate mothers, don’t. Just stop it. They don’t need to be rescued. They are too busy changing the world for the better to listen to condescending nonsense from privileged people who underestimate them. Most people do not fully understand what surrogacy is, and therefore make gross assumptions about it. I strongly advise those of you who fit the description above to mind your own business and let Indian women choose their own destiny. 

                                                                                                                          Writer: Allison McWood

From India - IVF, it does work!

SCI just doesn't do surrogacy, we do IVF for hundreds of patients through India and the world. Here is one such family...

Many thanks dear team,

 SCI Healthcare after many years of trying to have a baby and many failed IVF treatments with other services, we now we have double joy.

If you would like to find out more about IVF with SCI Healthcare, please email us today

From Canada : a boy!

Best leave this for the parents...

Dear Team SCI,

We took this picture shortly after we got back to Canada in May. Time has flown by and Max is 5 months old...already! We are so very grateful and over the moon being parents to this wonderful boy. He smiles at everyone and is such a joy to raise. We believe he will do great things with his life and touch everyone's hearts just as he has ours. 

A big thank you to the amazing professional team at SCI; helpful, respectful, courteous and just plain on top of their game. And of course a special thank you to Dr. Shivani for making this dream a reality. 

With much love,

Jane, André and Max

We wish this family the choicest of blessings for many years to come. If you are wanting more information about surrogacy, please email us at drshivanisachdev@gmail.com

From Canada: Two beautiful girls

Another family completed with SCI...

There are not enough words to describe the gratitude we feel for having found SCI! Without the help of our surrogate mother, Dr. Shivani and the entire staff at SCI our dream would not have come true. After a long struggle with infertility and several attempts at IVF, surrogacy seemed like the last option. We were sceptical at first naturally, however from the first moment we met Dr Shivani our scepticism was put to rest.

At first meeting she voluntarily took the time to show us around all the facilities and provided us with any possible information and statistics available. She was direct and honest and to the point, a breath of fresh air to deal with. Never have I encountered a whole entire staff that is so hard working, dedicated and eager to help with anything they possibly can. They helped make the process from applying for medical visas straight through to applying for exit visas very straightforward.

Without their support and help we wouldn't now be blessed with our lovely daughters. To Dr. Shivani, our surrogate and all the staff at SCI, thank you just isn't enough! 

We wish this family the choicest of blessings in the coming years.

May Babies

Congratulations to all our babies born in May

If you would like some more information on surrogacy options, please email us at drshivanisachdev@gmail.com

NEW PARENTS FROM USA: SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH SCI

Wonderful feedback from a family in the U.S

Dear SCI Team,

It’s hard for us to put into words what this experience has been for us.

Thank you from the bottom of our heart for everything you have done to help us.

SCI made us completely at ease with your warmth and professionalism. When we left your office, we were also elated, confident that we were on the right path.

What you provide is such a special gift to people. We are enormously grateful.

You have given us back a sense of joy about becoming a family along with confidence, peace of mind and hope.

Thank you Dr Shivani & SCI Team

Each Member of SCI team were always incredibly accessible, would receives phone calls or emails very promptly. Each one in your team from admin to account are absolutely awesome, truly professional, informative, supportive and an extremely caring person.

The entire journey with SCI team was just perfect and no words could adequately express our gratitude to everyone on the team.

Special thanks to Dr Shivani, Nabanita, Lalit, Jyoti, Arpana. 

If you would like to find out more about surrogacy, please email us at: drshivanisachdev@gmail.com

From the U.S : a bundle of twins

Always wonderful to see another family completed, such joy...

Dear Dr. Shivani and SCI team,

We haven’t got enough words to thank you. We are so thrilled to have created our family with the arrival of our TWINS; we are blessed with a girl and a boy on January 2, 2015. Both of them are so adorable!!! What a great way to start our year 2015 with the precious TWINS. We are forever thankful to Dr. Shivani, our surrogate and the wonderful SCI team for making our dream a reality.

It has been a month since we are back in the US with the TWINS. With the assistance and professionalism from SCI team, the process was easy and less stressful to bring our TWINS home soon.

We will be forever grateful!! We are proud to be a part of the SCI family!!

With lots of love,

Bhairavi, Shailesh, Aryana & Aarin

If you would like to find out more about surrogacy, please email us: drshivanisachdev@gmail.com

From the UK: a beautiful baby girl

Another much wanted blessing

Dear Dr Shivani and the SCI Team,

Words cannot begin to express just how grateful we are to everyone at SCI and of course our incredible Surrogate Mother.  

As with everyone who embarks upon surrogacy, we had a long and difficult journey to the arrival of our baby daughter and will forever be thankful for the hard work of everyone at SCI.  

Our daughter, Isla, arrived safely on 31st January and is just perfect!

If you would like to know more about surrogacy, please email us at drshivanisachdev@gmail.com

December Births...

We wish our December families the choicest of blessings and best wishes,

From the UK: Twins!

Another family completed, this time from the U.K...

Dear Dr Shivani and all at SCI

Hoping all is well with everyone

We would like to thank you all For the joy and happiness that you have brought into our lives

Sienna and Isabella are very precious to us, & without you all & the Clinic this would never have been possible

You have made our dreams come true & they have definitely been worth the wait

Everyday with them is like a new adventure & we learn something new with them everyday

 We would definitely recommend SCI to anyone thinking or having to undergo surrogacy, as every individual member of the team have been professional and caring from start to finish

Thanking you all once again for our beautiful bundles of joy :-). Words can never truly express how happy and delighted we are

Best wishesNivedita & Raj

If you would like to find out more about surrogacy in India, please email us at: drshivanisachdev@gmail.com

FROM USA WITH GRATITUDE: Twin boys and a family completed

Another family completed...

Thank you very much to the whole team at SCI.

It's been a wonderful experience up to now and thank you for the kind words and wishes. A true dream come true for both of us and something we will always look back on as part of our wonderful experience in India.

God bless,

We wish this family the choicest of blessings. If you would like further information about surrogacy in India, please email us at: drshivnaisachdev@gmail.com

From the UK: Generations of family rejoice after 11 years of waiting...

Their words say enough...

Dear Dr Shivani and Team,

First and foremost, thank-you so much for making our dreams come true – our boy and girl, born in April, through the help and support from SCI.

Just like a lot of couples, we had a long journey and an 11 year wait to get to this stage.  We approached many clinics in the UK and across the globe and unfortunately faced one disappointment after another, with failed IVF cycles. 

Approaching SCI was our final call and when our first cycle failed, we were devastated.  However, the professionalism shown by you, Dr Shivani, and your team convinced us to try again, with the result being our precious twins.

Thank-you once again, for all that you’ve done to make this possible.  A big thank-you also to our beautiful surrogate.  SCI is a quality clinic and the support provided to us both during the pregnancy and to this day, whilst we’re here in India waiting for passports for our babies, has been superb!

Whilst we’ve been over the moon with our precious twins, our whole family has been overjoyed.  

Here are a few words from the grandparents, who haven’t stopped smiling:

From Dadi and Dada,

Dr Shivani – thank-you for giving us hope through our new grandchildren to continue to fight our illnesses and face another day.  We’re so grateful to have this new light in our lives.  Thank-you so much!

From Nani and Nana,

Words cannot express how much these grandchildren mean to us.  We have longed to see them for 11 years!  Thank-you Dr Shivani for making this possible and bringing so much happiness into our lives. 

If you would like to find out more about surrogacy, please email us at: drshivanisachdev@gmail.com

July Births - Congratulations to all our families...

We wish all our families the choicest of blessings

If you would like to find out more about surrogacy in India, please email us at : drshivanisachdev@gmail.com

From Brazil: Our Precious Boys

Completely in love with our two sons…

We have just returned home with our beloved baby boys, Eduardo and Rodrigo. They will grow knowing the beautiful story behind their birth, of which we are so proud. We have always had an amazing support from our dear family and friends, who now celebrate these two incredible blessings in our lives. 

It is hard to express in words how thankful we are to our beautiful and generous surrogate, whom we had the chance to thank in person and even to meet her husband and their adorable little daughter. She is forever in our prayers.

We would like to thank our wonderful Dr. Shivani and her amazing staff, who made all this possible through so much professionalism, as well as a comforting empathy throughout the process. 

Finally, we would also like to thank our IP (Intended Parents) friends who have come part of our lives. We have become a growing SCI family, and you mean so much to us. Thank you for sharing this journey with us.

Lots of baby dust to those wishing for babies in their lifes!
Barbara and Claudio


If you would like to find out more about surrogacy with SCI, please email us at: drshivnaisachdev@gmail.com

A blessing of multiples with SCI

It is with great joy that i write that we are very busy with babies at the moment. The Nursery is overflowing with much joy, laughter and a touch of anxiety as parents hold and feed their babies for that first time.

In the last fortnight we have had one set of triplets and four sets of twins born to parents from the U.S and Australia, with two more sets to be born any day to parents from the U.K and Australia.

SCI service to these families includes our concierge who assists with accommodation and transport, access to day and night nurses from our experienced pediatric team and access to baby equipment (when available)such as baths and sterilizers.

These babies are going to families from across the world, rich in diversity, we would encourage you to read the blogs of those families courageous enough to share their stories.

HAPPY DIWALI AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL

Best Wishes
TEAM SCI

Baby Boom at SCI

SCI is experiencing a baby boom with aprox 50 pregnant surrogates at the present time, all due this year. There is nothing that pleases us more than helping people start or complete their families. To assist us in caring for large numbers of our treasured Surrogates, we have recently hired drivers and purchased cars to ensure a safe and short ride to and fro from appointments such as dietician appointments, scans, blood tests, obstetrician appointments, need for emergency care etc

Most of our clients prefer to remain anonymous, often choosing not to participate in Blogs or forums on the Internet. I was delighted to receive the best kind of email the other day, one from satisfied parents from the United States of America, with the following message and pictures. They have kindly given permission for me to share:

Hello Dr. Shivani! Thank you! They are really wonderful God-given gifts to us. We are very happy!

Here is a picture of Oliver and Alexis (a pigeon pair of twins) being held by our very experienced NICU Nurse Jija.



They came earlier than the due date and needed to spend a bit of time in NICU




Alexis



Oliver



If you believe that we can help you complete your family, please email us.

January and February have been busy months at Surrogacy Centre India.

I am proud to announce the establishment of my two new offices in Delhi NCR with a support team whose aim it is to meet the needs of all the clients of SCI.

Due to the the care and diligence of my recruiting staff we have more than 65 screened egg donors for Intending Parents to choose from. These are a mix of new and experienced donors, so that IPs will be able to see the results of previous egg collections when possible. We have listened to IP's concerns with regards to not knowing if their baby has a half sibling in the same country and therefore we are committed, as far as possible, our donors donate once to any country. For those clients who wish to have a Caucasian or other race donor, we recommend only one egg donation agency, Global Egg Donors.

We understand that for some IP's academic excellence is an important characteristic when choosing an egg donor. We are particularly proud of the establishment of our Premium Egg Donor Service in which women who have studied at prestigious Delhi universities have kindly agreed to become Egg Donors.

Our clients

In the past two months we have helped more than 20 families become pregnant. Some families come through LGBT networks and word of mouth, many believing they would never have the opportunity to have children of their own. We have intending mothers who have survived cancer and had hysterectomies, others with significant histories with IVF procedures in their own countries and others who had resigned themselves to being childless after being confronted with the significant waiting time for adoption in their countries. We have had successful outcomes for many of our families who have chosen to self cycle in India.

Our staff
We welcome our new concierge service, Dolly,



and Shilpi,




who assist our clients with accommodation and travel in Delhi, and travel to and from medical appointments. They are on hand to assist our clients discover the charms and delights of our vibrant city. Welcome also to Gourav, who has recently started as our accountant:



and Laxmi, my very able Secretary who will be key in forwarding copies of all results and scans to intended parents and can be contacted when I am not reachable in surgery/ consultations.



Our aim, as always, is focused on you, our clients. We can begin your surrogacy treatment in as little as two weeks. If you believe that we can help you, please feel free to contact us and ask all your questions.