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Reporting from Ahmedabad, India: It should have been Myleen and Jan Sjodin's greatest happiness. Their newborn was healthy, they were in exotic India and, following Myleen's uterine cancer, their surrogacy was successful.

Instead, the Toronto couple claim, it all turned into a nightmare as the doctor hiked her fees just before the baby was born, hitting them at their psychologically weakest point. She also didn't pay outside hospital bills and tried to use India's infamous bureaucracy to delay their homecoming, the couple say.

"We were robbed of our joy as first-time parents," Jan Sjodin said.
Surrogacy, along with other parts of India's medical tourism trade, has grown dramatically in recent years with physicians here overseeing an estimated 1,500 surrogacy births for domestic and overseas couples in 2010, a 50% jump in two years. The specialty is a tiny part of a fertility treatment business, including in vitro fertilization, hormone treatment and egg and sperm donation, that's on target to reach $2.3 billion next year.

The very flexibility, relative affordability and minimal regulation that have made India attractive to many also...