New-age fathers have a dominant desire to have kids and enjoy both fathering and mothering them.
New-age fathers have a dominant desire to have kids and enjoy both fathering and mothering them. The recent example of the first gay couple from Spain coming to the city to have kids - is a testimony to changing times.
This Father's Day, Claudia (girl) and Marco (boy), city-born Spanish twins, turn three-and-a-half months. It is a special day for their two fathers Alejandro Martinez and Moises Jimenez Alvarez, feel Dr Himanshu and Falguni Bavishi - infertility experts who helped the couple turn their dream of having a baby into a reality.
Dr Himanshu Bavishi said, "Since years the biological, emotional and mental ties that moms and children share have been glorified in a way that it overlooks a father's deep, silent yet profound connection with a child. We helped this couple as we are touched by their deep desire to father a child."
The acceptance of surrogacy has increased in the state and the availability of the latest infertility treatment at lower cost in the city, has turned the state into a hotspot for childless couples wanting babies via surrogacy.
However, the case of a homosexual couple walking away from the city with twin babies raised many eyebrows.
"The prime reason which moved us to assist this gay couple medically is their sheer grit and firm determination to have a baby," said Dr Falguni Bavishi.
"They had to undergo complex procedures. Their willingness to go through the financial, medical and legal formalities as well as the emotional and social stress convinced us that they were as capable as mothers to rear babies," she said.
The couple exhibited uncommon mental and emotional strength during the child bearing process, the Bavishis feel. "They both believed that having kids is not a matter of right but responsibility," said Dr Himanshu Bavishi.
The gay couple underwent the long process that started in April 2010 with retrieval of Martinez's sperms, getting the egg donor and a surrogate mother to carry their pregnancy and deliver their child; and finally left the city in April'11 with two babies.
According to the new artificial reproductive techniques (ART) guidelines, which are yet to be applicable, same-sex couples may not be allowed surrogacy in future as according to Indian law sexual relationship between two same sex people is illegal.
"Hence this couple may be the first and the last or one of the few lucky ones who could get their dream child using latest technology and a legal loophole. We wish the couple their first Happy Fathers' Day," he said.
Besides, this gay couple, the inquiries from city-based single fathers to have babies via surrogacy is also on a gradual rise, Dr Bavishi informed.
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