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In Pictures: Surrogacy in Ukraine
Ukraine’s once-booming surrogacy industry seemed at risk of collapsing but it has managed to continue deliveries, and clients are arriving again to pick up their children.
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Oct 17, 2022, 07:39 AM
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Diana and Viktoria, both surrogate mothers, watch Viktoria’s son outside the apartment complex where many surrogate mothers live while pregnant in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022. When Russia invaded, Ukraine’s once-booming surrogacy industry seemed at risk of collapsing but surrogate mothers and agencies have managed to continue deliveries, and clients are arriving again to pick up their children.
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Babies born to Ukrainian surrogate mothers wait to be collected by biological parents at the BioTexCom nursery in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022.
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Viktoria, 43, holds her belly as her 2-year-old daughter plays on a bed with the son of another surrogate mother in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022.
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A Ukrainian pediatrician and neonatal doctor, Olena Borisivna, prepare to take an infant who was born to Viktoria, a surrogate mother, to the nursery at a maternity hospital in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022.
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Ukrainian medical staff tends to a baby born to Viktoria, a surrogate mother, at a maternity hospital in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022.
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Ukrainian surrogate mothers wait for checkups at BioTexCom clinic in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022.
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A surrogate mother, Diana, who is 38 weeks pregnant, has an ultrasound scan at the BioTexCom clinic in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022.
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Doctors and nurses deliver a baby born by a Ukrainian surrogate mother in a hospital in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, on Aug. 19, 2022.
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Svitlana Burkovska, the owner of a small surrogacy agency, photographs an infant, born to one of her surrogate mothers, to send the images to the child's biological parents, in Kyiv, on Aug. 11, 2022.
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Zhang Zong holds his 6-month-old son, who was born to a Ukrainian surrogate mother during the early months of the war, in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022.
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Svitlana Burkovska, the owner of a small surrogacy agency, holds a baby born to one of her surrogate mothers, while her own daughter played nearby, in Kyiv, on Aug. 12, 2022.
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