Baby Limbo

This picture is a 12 day old japanese baby in a ward in India.

Wonder how she got there?

Her japanese parents (her father is a surgeon) both willingly hired an Indian surrogate mother after they had his wife's egg fertilized with his sperm and implanted in the the Indian woman's uterus ... all so simple ... but when the baby was born in India the Japanese couple divorced ... and they both no longer want the baby.

How sad can that be?

Since the Japanese mom (biological) is no longer interested .. maybe because it really wasn't from her for nine months (sigh) ... now the baby is still in limbo awaiting her future in India.

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Critics call the practice "wombs for rent," but surrogacy has emerged as a booming business in India.

Gujarat's Anand town -- where the baby was born -- has emerged as India's surrogacy centre after the high-profile case of a woman who gave birth to her own grandchildren on behalf of her British-based daughter in 2004.

Surrogate mothers in Anand charge about 100,000 rupees (2,500 dollars) for a pregnancy and have been approached by a number of overseas Indian and foreign couples who can have a surrogate baby at a fraction of the cost in Western countries.

Surrogate mothers are often poor women who opt to carry a stranger's baby to help pay education and housing costs for their own families.