I want a child. Looking back, Anke Feuerbach says that it’s hard to explain what’s going on in your head when this desire becomes more urgent from month to month. If the body just doesn’t cooperate, not for years. All the methods that you have tried as a couple, hormone treatments, artificial insemination, thousands of euros that cost. And always the nagging question: What’s wrong with us? Everyone else can do it too – have children. Why don’t we?
She and her husband Ingo, both in their late 30s and successful in their jobs, were finally driven by longing to take a step that is ethically controversial and forbidden in Germany. They rented the uterus of a foreign woman in a foreign country to carry a child for them.
Today, after walking this path to the end, Anke Feuerbach says: “If my husband and I had known what was happening: he at least would never have participated in life.”
The Feuerbachs, who do not appear here with their real names, sought help from Biotexcom. The Kiev-based company is one of the world’s leading surrogacy providers.
