According to the British "Daily Mail" report, as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues, the well-known Ukrainian international surrogacy industry is in chaos and faces unprecedented difficulties.Some exposed photos show that for safety reasons, a large number of newborn babies born to surrogate mothers are currently placed in a makeshift clinic in a basement in a residential area on the outskirts of Kyiv, under the care of volunteer nurses, waiting for foreign parents to come and pick them up. go.However, due to the current situation in Ukraine, only a very small number of babies have been taken away, and most of them still need to wait.
According to the report, usually, foreign parents who choose to find a surrogate mother in Ukraine need to go to Ukraine to complete the relevant documents before the baby is born, and then take them away after the child is born.But so far, only two couples from Germany and Argentina have made the trip to Ukraine to welcome their children, according to volunteer nurses at the clinic.
According to the nurses, they are working around the clock to take care of the large number of newborns their parents have not been able to pick up, which makes them so exhausted that they don't even have time to rest, so they can only try to take a nap and then switch shifts with colleagues to resume work.
Reports indicate that several babies have been picked up by parents from the US, the UK and Australia.One of the babies, born to a Ukrainian surrogate mother on February 2, has been taken out of Ukraine by its parents from the United States.According to the American couple, it took them 22 hours to reach the border between Ukraine and Poland with their four-day-old daughter, including the last eight hours of walking completely in the freezing cold.During the period, the wife of the couple has been worried that the baby "starved to death or freeze to death".In the end, they entered Poland one after another, and then went to Warsaw, and have now arrived in the United States safely.
According to an estimate by Growing Families, an Australian agency that works with foreign parents seeking surrogacy, there are currently more than 800 surrogate mothers in Ukraine who have already conceived foreign children.
The report pointed out that more than 12 foreign parents from 100 countries have contacted "Growing Families" for help.In addition to concerns about the babies, these foreigners are also concerned about the embryos they have stored in Ukraine.
"It's such a difficult situation, we're getting calls every day from foreign parents saying they've found a surrogate mother or stored embryos in Ukraine before, but now urgently need information," said Evellingham, global director of Growing Families. "
Because of the developed surrogacy industry, Ukraine is called "European womb" by some media.The sudden war has had a strong impact on this gray industry, especially the surrogate mothers who are already pregnant with Liujia are faced with a dilemma, but their safety is rarely cared about.According to the "New York Post" report on the 9th, due to legal restrictions, these pregnant women can only "stay in war zones to give birth to children for the West".A surrogacy center called "BioTexCom" in Kyiv has been difficult to operate normally recently, and many surrogate mothers chose to flee.With the due date approaching, the surrogacy center has asked these women to return to fulfill the contract.
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