I picked this book as I am always curious to know how the world looks at India. The book turned out to be a great info on In vitro fertilisation and the emotions involved in going through the whole process.
I wonder what it must be like
to have your body suffused with hormones externally. The author has described
what the medical procedures the genetic mother goes through in the process of
IVF. She brings out her disbelief even while going through the process in a
foreign territory.
It was a revelation that its
not just women who cant conceive that make use of surrogates but also mothers
who are prone to miscarriages. She says that everybody knows that first
trimester is danger zone, though not that common knowledge – I realize the
tenuousness of human life in the foetal stage.
Filhaal - a bollywood take on surrogacy.
Coming to experiences of the author in India, except for the travel urged by her mother in law, she has been mostly inside the vegetarian village of Anand. The author has been to India before to mourn her mother's loss. Her interactions with her surrogate, even without a common language inform her about the surrogate as well as her self.
'The sacred thread' had me in tears when the surrogate mother gave the children away with their protective threads.
