Womb for rent: A heart to carry another woman’s baby

Imagine a woman desperately trying to get pregnant, but so far every attempt is unsuccessful. Would you be brave enough to “get pregnant for her?” Aisha Nansereko did.

Aisha Nansereko is a surrogate mother. In 2012, a fertilised egg from a couple that had failed to conceive was implanted in Nansereko’s womb.

Baby Sheila was born.

Nansereko, 26, did not go to secondary school education.

Orphaned at a tender age, she struggled through life before being married off at the age of 16 and bore two children soon after. Like many a marriage today, hers was not rosy.

The couple hit a rocky patch and eventually split.

Nansereko traces her interest in surrogacy to the time her aunt was desperately trying to get pregnant, ending up at the Women’s Hospital and Fertility Centre in Bukoto.

While the doctors were running tests on her aunt, curiosity got the better of Nansereko. She found herself in the doctor’s office inquiring about her aunt’s chances of giving birth seeing how desperate she was.

She was told that her aunt could give birth with...