“Sorry, Nash is cranky right now,” apologises Bec Kalpakoff, from Perth, while she calmly tends to a fussy infant in a busy café. She is not flustered by being a first-time mother, but ordering a coffee is proving a frustration – Bec cannot speak the language in the city where her son was born.
ABC News: Inside Ukraine’s surrogacy industry where Australians are travelling to have a family
A woman holds one of her twin daugthers born to a Ukrainian surrogate mother in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod on April 14, 2011.
