We often know really amazing birth stories, like the one we bring you today from a baby born four years after the death of his parents, thanks a surrogate mother and after a long legal battle in China.
Shen Jie and Liu Xi, a couple in the eastern Chinese city of Yixing, had planned to become parents, but lost their lives in a car accident. Before dying, they had preserved fertilized eggs ready for implantation. In fact, they had it scheduled for the days after the accident, but it couldn't be.
His only hope of having a grandson
They had been married for two years when the couple died on March 20, 2013. They had tried to have a child but when they failed, they decided to resort to an in vitro fertilization treatment.
Both were only children (according to the one-child policy in force in China until 2015), and when they died, their parents decided to use these embryos and go to the Surrogacy to continue with the family.
But surrogacy is illegal in China, so they had to go through a complicated battle in court to get the embryos and be able to carry out the procedure in another country.
Another complication was that the child had Chinese nationality, so the surrogate mother entered the country with a tourist visa to give birth in Chinese territory.
Finally the little boy was born on December 9 and his maternal grandmother He called it Tiantian, which means "sweet candy", and obtained Chinese citizenship after his grandparents had the necessary DNA tests to confirm the bond with the child.
