Baby Tiantian was contain in December 2017 in a infirmary in Guangzhou , a interface city to the northwest of Hong Kong . He looks like a distinctive babe but he has an exceedingly unusual backstory – his parents died in a car wreck four geezerhood before his birth .
Couple Shen Jie and Liu Xi were plan to conceive using in vitro fertilization ( IVF ) but tragically , the Beijing Newsreports , five day before the frozen embryo was due to be transpose into Liu , the duo passed away in a car accident .
That was in March 2013 . For three age , the duet ’s parents – Tiantian ’s four grandparent – were involved in a fraught and contentious custody battle to obtain right to the four frozen embryos .
It was the first cause of its kind and there was no regulation in China advising how to deal untransplanted embryos , so the grandparents were embark on unexampled effectual territory . as luck would have it , after a serial publication of courtroom cases , they won the much sought after hold rightfulness .
Then came the next hurdle : who would be the child ’s foster female parent ?
In China , commercial-grade surrogacy is illegal . The pattern is also banned , or severely limited , in many fence countries , likeThailandandIndia . Laos is one of the few Southeast Asian countries where the rules are a little more relaxed – the Bejing News calls it " the raw ducky of commercial-grade surrogacy " .
So , in January 2017 , the grandparents travel to Laos to search for a surrogate mother . No airline would bear the embryos , which were encase in a thermos flask containing 196 ° C ( 385 ° F ) liquid nitrogen , so the head trip was contract by car . To avoid any citizenship issues , the replacement was later on brought back to China on a tourist visa to give birth .
When the child was born , the grandparents were also required to take authorship run to prove they were , in fact , Tiantian ’s relatives , but the sinful effort was worth it . The grandparent are said to be very felicitous to have Tiantian , whose name means " sweet " in Chinese .
" The eyes are like my daughter , but still a little more like his father , " the baby ’s maternal grandmother , Hu Xingxian , told the Beijing News .
