Lisa and Brian Switzer tried for almost a decade to have a baby. They spent $90,000 on fertility treatments only to fail over and over again. But their next step, caught the world's attention.
"It was a significant leap of faith," Brian Switzer says.
A leap of faith that took them from their San Antonio home halfway across the world. In 2007, Mumbai, India, the Switzers found their family.
"The day after Thanksgiving 2007, we get an email from the clinic congratulating us... the pregnancy took," says Brian.
Asia is their surrogate mother. She is among hundreds of Indian women who chooses to carry babies for others to support her own family.
Lisa and Brian's intriguing journey became the subject of "Made in India", a documentary that reveals a growing and lucrative multi-million dollar business called reproductive tourism.
"We didn't have a choice because surrogacy in the U.S. is so expensive," says Lisa.
Surrogacy in the U.S. would have cost Brian and Lisa, $75,000 to $100,000. Their last resort was India and for $35,000, they had Riley, a beautiful healthy baby.
Despite that, some skeptics call renting a womb unethical.
"We got hammered on the Internet, very hard. Well that's God's plan. If your wife can't carry children that's God's plan. You know what I say to those, when you get cancer, when you need that triple bypass on your heart, don't go to the doctor. Don't get the treatment cause apparently it's God's plan for you to have cancer," says Brian.
Riley is now two years old. Brian and Lisa say she is God's plan.
"A Baptist father, Catholic mother, a Hindi doctor, a Muslim surrogate, and some of the best sciences out there. And if that's not a miracle and it's half way across the world, I don't know what is," says Lisa.
There is much more to Lisa and Brian's story that will be revealed in the documentary "Made in India."
