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tv   Indias Miracle Babies  Al Jazeera  November 3, 2017 1:32am-2:00am AST

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continues to grow with even more contamination of food and water. well as the headlines want to is coming up next that's it for myself in the teen and london but more news from doha in twenty five minutes. al-jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. they may be in their seven but these are not grandparents. in india the pressure to have children is so great that elderly childless women are turning to the countries in vitro fertilization industry to help them conceive and
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doctors are happy to help. steve check out on this episode of one of one east we explored the ethics of giving birth at any age and ask is this industry out of control. how old is he promotes. the cool and husband man dissing other proud parents with a baby boy who do you think it looks most like. how far. off to be six years of marriage this seventy two and seventy nine year old to finally have the child they've always wanted. me out of people used to tell adopt a child but they never felt the urge to adopt or have someone else's baby. they've
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named him among the meaning. and in their eyes a little sun is nothing short of a miracle from god. the almighty only has made this possible for us it is his skift we haven't done anything it is this where and he granted him to us either weiss who wouldn't have caught him. in reality the baby is the product of india's in-vitro fertilization industry conceived with a donor egg possibly donor sperm and borne by syrian in april this year his mother is reportedly the oldest woman in the world to give birth how did. i want everything for him that he should become a big man and bring anything he has already brought me fame. but with fame has
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come condemnation and calls to put an age limit on i.v. of treatment seventy two years is not the right age to have a baby and it was shocking in a way that yes science can do it science can do a lot of things but it is for society to decide whether we're going to let scientists do which are things which are not in favor of the society or which are on ethical or the patient and the child of great harm and that is what has happened here. it's the indian government who many hold responsible for allowing lives to be put at risk. it's almost forty since the first baby was born in india and since then there's been an explosion in the number of i.v. of clinics yet there's still no noise governing the industry legislation has been pending in holland for the past six years leaving many to suggest the industry has become too big and too powerful to regulate.
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in the place you'd expect to find. the backstory to the national and test tube baby santa. was created the mastermind behind the clinic success is dr. way. welcome here and you have. the very famous in this part of the world. clinic. the embryologist claims to have treated fell's in the post-menopausal women over the age of fifty and says more than one hundred of them have become pregnant. with for fifty. because when they were middle aged forty forty five. the technology was not here. they are coming in now after hearing from so many
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people. can become pregnant. dr bishnoi insists she's older patients have to pass rigorous health checks before beginning i.v.'s treatment we don't need much of. the middle and they were the ones that come from we don't like it said that not everyone agrees the risks are low getting seventy two years while pregnant is putting my life and your party we have a huge crowd freezing you dr malhotra is president of india's society for assisted reproduction and runs his own high tech i v f clinic i talked to him telephone we met him personally ones and we told him this is not right he says becoming so i'm giving so that someone demands. drugs.
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stop him he feels he's the god of the kingmaker the child maker the when you try to make it in the world. for a family in this village that's precisely what. baby i'm on isn't the first child dr bishnoi delivered to a couple in this seventy. roger davy low hand previously held the world record for the oldest first time mother she was seventeen when she had to do it in two thousand and night what was this occasion. when was that. about the way he's going to. play your first birthday. in this family portrait taken when
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a vein was just one she's surrounded by how many older nephews. need. i really need. and so. to all of those boys your a very lucky. that's amazing. and that's not the only complicated relationship in the family roger did the married bella rom when she was twelve and he was fourteen. fifteen years later they had no children and so her husband took a second wife or younger sister. but still no children came. when people used to tease us i get angry with them those who are an outside it saying it's god's wish this is your state and nothing can be done about it we would just
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close our gate and live our sleep if we had work to do we do it. decades later the family was still childless but then they heard from a neighbor about dr bishnoi. all three of us went to the doctor he checked us and said your younger sister has high blood pressure so i will give you the treatment. i told her you try for a child produce a child it's the same thing with her it's your child or mine she'll come to our family ultimately. it's important to have a baby be it a boy or go to take the family's name fold. so intervene and who is now i was born. when she was
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born she was only one kilogram now she has grown so tall and you know. i love her i find her very sweet some of the bigger the busy. she the street i still find her looking she is very dear to me she loves real not she is the only one for us whatever is that it's just for her everything is for her. but the treatment and pregnancy seems to have taken its toll on roger davies body today her family doctor is giving her intravenous medication to ease stomach pain. earlier she was healthy and strong but after she had a baby she turned weak then after a year or two she got cancer. doctor didn't tell me
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anything about the dangers and i never felt that that was any danger i just thought i had to go. straight. since new vein was born roger debbie has had three operations to repair a ruptured uterus and remove cancerous tumors as well as many rounds of chemotherapy. i feel the treatment she underwent at this age may have caused all these problems because having a baby means there is some fiddling with the hormones for the. patient to start menstruating and to give a very high doses of instruction if you get high doses of insurgent or order women they are more likely to have cancer so that could have been easily happen i also cannot say for sure that that is the reason but that's one of the reasons. the dr
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bishnoi his treatments not to blame and claims roger davies now cancer free presently has no problem. she's out of the problem. in another village three hours drive away fertile farming land may have brought a level of prosperity. but nothing like the richness of dr. brought to the long lives of the nobody aging couple. a six year old twins a boy and a girl while having fun and the elderly parents couldn't be more of a joy. people used to tease me what will you do when you take all your wealth i did go for a second marriage that didn't help with the grace of the almighty nothing's a great children mean the world was very happy it's
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a good thing. my house has changed. but now it's a happy and vironment now i spend the whole day with my children and i'm very happy . the teary day is another of dr bishnoi famous members in twenty ten at the age of sixty six she became the oldest woman in the world to deliver triplets. the babies were in intensive care for months. when i saw them i was overjoyed i looked at my limbs and their faces to see if they were all right. they were very thin. one of them a little girl didn't make it and the teary did almost lost her on. the babies she was hospitalized she was in a very bad condition she was almost on
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a death bed she spoke only after ten to twelve days. she had a condition that caused her to him rage during childbirth but according to dr bishnoi it was of little concern. another. young adult female also that is not related to the old days it was not a car it was not a wheel if it happens in someone who is over fifty five then it is very dangerous it is it is very very dangerous and you know it is going to happen triplets would carry tripper that is if he had detected triplets at first second month he should have gone ahead and reduce them to singleton so to reduce the risk. that materie did say she refused to let that happen. even the doctor said there was a risk to the children three of them but i told him i want all three. it was very
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important for me to have a child of my own to have a for family even if it was at the cost of my life. back to bishnoi zavvi of clinic the waiting room is packed but not all his patients live with good news this old lost two sons one is a child and the other a twenty one just two years ago. today they devastated to hear the i.v.'s cycle has filed with the doctor say that whatever treatment didn't succeed try once again take a second. i am ready to have the money.
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for the treatment it will take one more chance. for the sake of having. me help. on a. leash or give his out. in a positive manner and. i would kind of in a day have been told that the fifth continue the new class. fulfill their dreams. to fulfill a baggy dreams of aging parents an egg from a fertile donor is essential this twenty year old woman is recovering after having her eggs holliston the husband and son all right a bed signed this is the first time she's done. given the but that the good news. i was told that all these it's not complicated but i'm having being here. i do
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realize that we also saw for being. out in the cafeteria an agent has brought three potential donors from delhi he's clearly in demond his phone never stops ringing and i'm there are so many i.v.'s and this running in or outside delhi whatever they are that in my four adonis without darkness i.v.'s and those just on oprah. he says he has six other agents working for him some of them former egg donors who recruit up to fifteen new donors a day he's making it so that it will pull them both to me there's no complications in this posted at all so my head until i do ladies that we pay a handsome amount for a donation if someone works in a factory in less than seventy five dollars a month but we can pay five hundred twenty five dollars for the ten day process.
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that we know are legal regulation of the i mean industry egg donor news may end up playing with their lives at least two are known to have died in recent years. in twenty ten handy died in mumbai she was only seventeen despite i.v.'s guidelines that egg donors should be at least eighty. no action has been taken against the clinic. then in twenty four to twenty four year old human died in delhi she and her husband had left the young daughter with family at home in with goal and came to the indian capital to. yuma was working at this garment shop when she was recruited as an egg donor she was the main on off for the family but she did all this just for thirty thousand rupees to raise money to travel home on a trip she was
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a nice friendly very bubbly person she shared not only her hopes but also her fears with her colleagues we started checking on the internet what are the side effects you know what you can possibly you know spoiled in a woman. started reading she started getting really scared so she finally said i'll stop doing it so she went to the doctor and i think the doctor told her that her that it's she cannot back down in the middle because it's already. january twenty fourth. left. her. around six thirty that night she called her husband very distressed he rushed to her bedside he says by the time he arrived she was unconscious and when no doctor is present. by the middle men there was and it was he was given
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a board with your name which gallop oh yes right coming toward your door that's a lemon of what i. thought was no doctor will. other and. i felt i judged her hand and. i was also know there was nothing actually i felt she was died that time only. three and a half hours before she was taken to hospital where she was pronounced. this robot of the soonest possible you're running such an institute you're supposed to be prepared for such an emergency and the fact is it's a known fact that procedures like this involving element of risk infidelity so when there is such a known risk why would you not be prepared for it. that would amount to. an undertaking such a pretty acting for unishe of his husband and he's taken on the case pro bono
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after being contacted by the government where you know. about the likeliness of an overdose is taking place. and in the end the conclusion the autopsy showed you suffered a variant hyperstimulation syndrome these can occur when high doses of i used to produce high numbers of eggs and he's potentially five in an average if there's a. guideline. depending on the woman's b.m.i. is what is supposed to be harvested but right now there's no law and there's nobody there leading them there's no one supervising it so what. so that ends up putting the woman's life in danger. the clinic director in doctor refused to talk to us then it's business as usual but. the tragedy.
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that there was. again. my wife whatever's happening to her i know that. i don't want happening. again. is where conception begins for his elderly patients it's here donor eggs a fertilized and embryo is a creation of the genetic make up of embryos is not discussed.
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and that seems to be precisely how roger davey and her husband have come to terms with no d.n.a. . what do people know about the cuts from no one can see. everyone knows that she is my child. it's all written by god. god is a constant comfort for these elderly parents with life expectancy in india at sixty seven for men and seventy one for women they're already living on borrowed time. that he will be around after. someone challenges her she turns back and gives them back that this is my house when she is
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still independent. legal she is sensible. that. singing also hopes god will provide his health is failing and he struggles to keep up with. he says it's something that worries the little ones. but you look at them and what they say to us that you have probably know who will look after us i tell them all will be taken care of by the almighty. his children but he now thinks that no one over fifty five should have an i.v. if. percent of the children born by age women suffer a lot even if there are a lot of resources at home parents die that who takes care of them.
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despite nearly dying in childbirth his wife doesn't agree. that's no guarantee of life someone could die a thirty years of age fifty. or even older. what's the harm what do children have to do with age children will be no. what's the problem. they'll be uncles and aunties in the family who can nurture the family the family will keep running it won't stop. i'd only two months old little i'm on has a long way to go before he's out of nappies let alone apple to fend for himself. he doesn't think i keep wishing he grows calm has become so that we can get a good grip. looking after a newborn is exhausting it. but clearly for
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a seventy two year old belgian to cool it's overwhelming. for a man more the river we do for i have been feeling very weak had a really tough time at times he keeps on crying and doesn't get pacify then i get very now have a rebuttal of what i'm getting at though the you know. people have someone to help from others and i do everything on my own. with no close friends or extended family who would look after my when she and her husband. gave up the. don't talk to me about this i don't like this i don't want to talk about it i haven't talked and when god is god and i cannot trust and in any.
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industry and i have made history delivering miracle babies to these elderly couples . the big question is at what cost to the mama egg donor and ultimately to the child. sure towns at home. and inspiration. castle stories of people keeping the spirit of freedom alive. by courageously defending their rights to cut. its best with. the al-jazeera select at this time.
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