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Internet plea for surrogate
mother
BBC News Thursday, 11 September, 2003
A
childless couple have made a desperate internet plea to
women in India for a volunteer surrogate mother.
Bobby, 39, and Nikki Bains, 38, were forced to widen their
search to India when attempts to find a woman prepared to
help in Britain failed.
Ms Prelewicz, now 36, will
be impregnated with John and Lisa Banfield's embryos at a
fertility clinic in LA this week.
The couple from Ilford in east
London, who have undergone five courses of expensive IVF
treatment, are now offering £15,000 to any woman prepared to
help them.
They made their appeal via their own
website which chronicles their bid to conceive.
The couple have also placed
advertisements in Indian newspapers and on websites around
the world appealing for Asian women to help them.
Doctors cannot explain why the
couple, who have been married for eight years, cannot
conceive and they believe their best chance lies with a
surrogate mother willing to have an embryo implanted in her
womb.
Mrs Bains said: "If I could just
have a child then I would be complete."
If this method is unsuccessful they
may be forced to use a donor egg from the surrogate mother,
fertilised with Mr Bains' sperm.
They are currently in touch with one
woman in Britain and have received several responses from
women in India.
Surrogacy in this country is
carefully regulated by the Human Fertilisation and
Embryology Authority and direct payments to volunteers are
illegal, although they are allowed substantial "expenses".
No jurisdiction
But the HFEA has no jurisdiction
over British couples receiving overseas treatment.
Despite their long battle to become
parents, Mrs Baines, a legal secretary, and Mr Baines, an
engineer, remain optimistic.
"We are taking it one step at a
time," said Mrs Bains.
"But I know it will happen one day
and we will be able to hold our child in our arms."
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