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Texas Surrogate Custody Battle Heats Up | Sacramento News

A Texas courtroom is now the epicenter of a high-stakes legal battle over custody of a critically ill newborn with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. California couple Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, who used surrogate McKenna West to carry their son Rumi, are locked in conflict with the nurse-turned-surrogate, who insists she’s the rightful conservator to make life-saving medical decisions. While the couple claims West is unstable and violating their surrogacy contract, West argues they abandoned the child by initially seeking termination — a decision Gilkar says was made under immense…

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