A few months ago Shah Rukh Khan and wife Gauri announced the joyous addition of Abram to their family. He was the couples first child through assisted reproductive therapy or Surrogacy.
A couple of years ago, Aamir Khan and wife Kiran had created media furore by announcing their baby Azad was born through surrogacy.
SRK and Aamir have single handedly broken the "barren" tag and provided a light in the otherwise dark tunnel of childless married life.
My professional experience has also shown a gradual change in the entire behavior and thought process of modern middle, high-middle class india.
Every week many young ladies going through fertility issues consult me. They are many a times accompanied by 50-60yr old mothers or mother-in-laws.
More and more mothers and mother-in-laws ask me the question - "if my daughter/daughter-in-law health doesn't permit her to conceive, can we start IVF and surrogacy procedures."
When I ask them are they comfortable with such procedures. Most of them reply -
"if Aamir and SRK have successfully adopted it, that means its a safe and efficient procedure. It also means that the child is completely theirs. We are ready."
In our patriarchal and orthodox society where men are still fixated on "virgin" wife's and "same cast" marriage because its "same blood".. its refreshing to see this change.
There was a time when a woman was easily labelled "barren" (Bhanj) and plagued for life... Today thanks to SRK and Aamir Khan, "barren" is becoming another stupid orthodox illusion.
Assisted reproductive techniques or IVF/Surrogacy are a marvel of modern science.
Just like the pre-2000's generation who where unfortunate to never have cell-phones to communicate and are still adjusting to it as a complete entertainment device.
Don't let old thought process prevent you from making use of the modern scientific knowledge to get your own child.
- Dr.Mayuri Assudani
(Gynaecologsit and Infertility Consultant)
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