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In 2005 surrogacy cost $12,000. Today that same clinic charges $35,000. Economical suicide to postpone or delay your treatment unnecessarily. This may be the one area where the pain is hurt by both the male and the female. Whereas the woman is concerned by every minute detail of her treatment, her partner may suddenly come into life at this stage of the consultation with 'what's the damage Doc?'

Surrogacy cost in India

Two clinics we know offer surrogacy for $25,000 Jan 2012 prices. These clinics will provide a surrogate for that price which includes a deposit for the delivery of the baby.
(see previous prices)

The price includes:

Consultation and Recruitment of Surrogate
Preparation of the Surrogate
Clinic Fees for IVF Cycle
IVF Drug & Injections, dependage on dosage
Surrogate's reimbursement
Housing and feeding the surrogate for 9 months
Social Workers
Antenatal
Insurance
Deposit to the Delivery Hospital/Emergencies

For the delivery a little extra most probably needs to be paid for instance the surrogate may need a c-section and further hospital stay and things of that nature but most bases are covered. But what about the hidden cost, the extras? There's none I could think of apart from airfares and accommodations.

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The West

Another area of concern is that we are told that we live in 'Rip-off Britain'. Governing laws restrict the amount of embryos to be implanted in a woman to a maximum of three. Even worse, only two embryos are allowed in a surrogate in UK. And now we hear they are to reduce that to one! Simple maths tell us that at two embryos for surrogacy costing minimum $25,000 it works out at $12,500 per embryo! Even more if we are only allowed one embryo.
Over in India where they may implant on average 4-6 embryos, sometimes more, but you can imagine the cost-per-embryo in India being considerably less.
Before people cry out 'exploitation' do you know that surrogacy cost more in India than in england? No. Not many do know this though quick to criticize aren't they?

USA doesn't get off lightly either. Nobody knows the average surrogacy cost there as it isn't capped like it is in UK. So one couple might pay in total $120,000. To hazard a guess the average would be around the $50-60,000 mark. A hefty chunk of that going towards the agency and as ever with americans, the medical.

Going abroad for IVF and surrogacy could bring this price down considerably for the Canadians and the Americans amongst us. Certainly it will save you valuable time. If you had the option of implanting 6,9 or more embryos at once wouldn't you jump at the chance? Sure you would risk having multiple births but they can be selectively reduced. Then they say increasing the amount transferred wouldn't necessarily increase your chances, but try telling that to the couple who are paying them vast sums and who are increasingly desperate as time may not be on everyone's side.

Even if you add the cost of airfare and hotels, for Mumbai clinics we stayed at a hotel in Pune, a nearby city, Rs800-2,200 per couple, a 3 hour drive away from clinic. Rs4,000 taxi, about 3/4 trips per week, cost of food, shopping, duty free and both wage losses it would still be cheaper to do it in India than anywhere else. Even if you are white! Authentic curry to boot and a fab sun tan!

For basic IVF treatment on yourself and no surrogacy the cost is around $4,000. It's a good way to skip one's own country's choking restrictions on your age, your body mass index, your sex preferences, and which side of the bed you get out of. Most impressive of all you get the choice of implanting a few embryos more than say the UK permits it's own clinics to do. That alone is reason enough especially on the cost-per-embryo basis.

If the egg donors do not meet your requirements on appearances etc then you can advertise for an egg donor on the Times of India newspaper. Back in 2005 an advert cost us $600 in a dozen cities once a week for two months. An egg donor can expect payments of up to Rs50,000.

In the UK, assuming you find a surrogate that is, the cost for the IVF treatment is at least GBP4,000. Then add on the surrogate's expenses of at least GBP10-15,000. A cheaper alternative would be to by-pass the expensive IVF procedure and find a surrogate who is willing to donate her own eggs then you can simply go about artificially inseminating her via a syringe with the intended father's sperm every other day for a week or so and this carries on for months until the surrogate gets pregnant and that's a big if as it could take a very long time or never at all.
These cost can be at least doubled for our north american cousins. If that isn't fair then I suggest travelling abroad. Take your Surrogate to India, have the IVF done on her for as little as GBP3,000. Or select a surrogate in India and have the whole treatment cost and surrogate's fees for $25,000 Jan 2012 prices which includes the delivery of the baby(s). Plus one small matter of getting around the draconian, big brother laws of the west. That alone is reason enough to start packing one's bags. Happy days!

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