ahmedabad in this marriage the joy of motherhood will be experienced by both partnerswhile one woman will carry the child in her womb for nine months the other has provided the eggs for the baby to be conceived together this couple has begun the journey to become a special family in which the child may not have a father but will get the love of two mothers it is a heartwarming tale of a lesbian gujarati couple from the ussunaina and maitri names changed to protect identitystaring down challenges and tribulations to find acceptance and to eventually secure the hope of becoming parents in the land of their origin sunaina and maitri have undergone ivf treatment in anand the women had first met in india in 2005 and had recently decided to take their relationship forward by starting a family the lesbian couple belongs to conservative gujarati families said anandbased fertility specialist dr nayana patel who is treating them one of them has given her eggs which have been fertilized using sperm from an anonymous donor the embryo has been transferred to the womb of the other woman partner the child will be delivered in the us sunaina told toi that she had discovered her sexuality very early in the us my parents had divorced when i was young she said i was close to my mother who accepted me with open arms while the other members of my family were not so understanding sunaina was in a relationship with a foreign woman in the us but she says it lasted only nine months because of cultural incompatibility to her surprise sunaina found love while on a visit to gujarat which she feels is still extremely reluctant to accept homosexual relationships compared to metros like mumbai and delhi i met maitri and in time a relationship blossomed sunaina said after years of longdistance love we married in canada in 2008 recently both of us were united in the us we run a successful business and are educated we feel we are strong as a family to nurture a child