This story is making a stir in the UK and also in Oz, no doubt. The baby has been in hospital in "Chonburi" and is being moved to Bangkok to be operated on.

 

A Thai woman who carried a baby with Down's Syndrome as a surrogate mother has vowed to take care of the boy after his natural parents gave him up.

The Australian couple left Gammy, now six months old, with Pattaramon Chanbua but took his healthy twin sister.

"Why does he have to go through all the hardships? I love him... He's like my child now," Ms Pattaramon said.

Gammy has a congenital heart condition, a lung infection and Down's and is in a Thai hospital for urgent treatment.

A campaign to help the baby begun online after Thai newspaper Thairath published Gammy's story last week.

It has raised more than A$150,000 ($140,000; £83,000) from 3,400 donors in 11 days.

In Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott expressed his sadness: "I guess it illustrates some of the pitfalls involved in this particular business.

"It's a very, very, sad story and I hate to think that, you know, a child could be abandoned like that."

Think this has been in the News section already

Think this has been in the News section already

Yes indeed...

Here's the link

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?/topic/747913-Australian-couple-abandon-Down-syndrome-baby-with-Thai-surrogate-mother

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