Surrogacy Journey : Kate & Glenn at KIC

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Testimonial from Kate Glenn From Canada
Our journey with the Kiran infertility Centre ,
stared 2 years ago around Christmas time After
5 years of trying to have a baby here in Toronto,
Canada we were looking for a miracle and we found
it on CNN. We watched a show about the Kiran
infertility center and possibilities of surrogacy
in India. Let me give you a bit of background
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• we started to try to have a baby in early 2005
  after several months and many trips to our family
  doctor and specialist nobody could tell us why it
  was not happening.
• This is what we tried
• Chinese acupuncture
• Chinese herbal teas
• Naturopath help- I has 3 different surgeries to
  see if there is a reason I cannot get pregnant
  and nothing was found and due to the surgeries
  one of my fallopian tubes was damaged and it had
  to be removed
• we tried first fertility clinic, but they were
  just way too expensive for u
• - we moved to another fertility clinic and we
  tried many IUI and had 2 unsuccessfully IVFs.

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• after 5 long years I was not only diagnosed with
  UNEXPLAINED INFERTILITY, but also we had to
  refinance our condo and take another line of
  credit to cover the medical expensed that are not
  covered by OHIP or our insurances.
• - we also started to look into adoption, but
  with the wait-time and amount of debts we had
  there were very slim chances So, another sad
  Christmas was coming and we were thinking of we
  should try one more IVF as we still had some
  money available to us from the line of credit,
  but we were really scared, as this was our last
  chance and if this would not work we had no more
  money and we knew that there are no guarantees

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suddenly we saw the show on CNN ( you can
probably watch it on YouTube)My husband Glenn did
all the research about off different clinics in
India and we contacted a few of them and we
received a message from Dr. Samit Sekhar who is
the program director and we really had a good
feeling. We joint the clinics online social
networking page contacted other intended parents
and received first hand information. We spoke to
Dr. Samit many times over internet and we
received all the info we needed and in April 2011
we went to India. I went first and my husband
joins me a week later, as he did not have so much
vacation time. Our experience in India was great,
the staff was fantastic and everything went well,
but our surrogate did not get pregnant, after
receiving the news we were heartbroken, however
we knew we had 4 tries, so we were just waiting
and we trusted Dr. Samit And Dr. Kiran Sekhar
very much.
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After a few long months in November 2011 we got
the news that the surrogate was pregnant and it
was the first Christmas that was truly great for
us! We were over the moon. During the pregnancy
we were receiving scans and reports every 10 days
and on June 20 the case manager Anjani emailed us
that the surrogate was showing signs of labor and
I flew to India on June 21 and our Zoe was born
on June 22, well I did miss the birth, as the
trip was so long, but it did not matter. We had a
baby that we wanted for such a long time. My
husband came a week later and it took us exactly
6 weeks from the time Zoe was born to get all the
papers done and on August 5 we came back to
Canada. If not for the Doctors and the Staff at
the clinic we would never had a baby. Our Zoe
will be 6 months old just before Christmas and
there are not words to describe how much
happiness she brought to our lives. I would
strongly recommend the Kiran Infertility center
to infertile patients. We are planning a little
brother or sister for our Zoe with the Kiran
Infertility Center and expecting some good news
soon. Kate Lopez katetyrala_at_yahoo.com
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