Finding baby Nemo's parents: The investigation continues in Chiang Mai, Thailand

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Finding baby Nemo's parents: The investigation continues in Chiang Mai, Thailand
EUGENE BINGHAM AND PAULA PENFOLD

CHIANG MAI: -- On a mission to unravel the mystery of the Baby Nemo surrogacy mix-up case, 3D Investigates producer Eugene Bingham and reporter Paula Penfold went to Thailand.

Enlightenment, true enlightenment, spiritual philosophers argue, is beyond most mortals.

So it must have been something close – a sincere realisation, a deep understanding – which overcame us as we stood in the grounds of an ancient Buddhist temple in northern Thailand, reflecting on what had just happened.

Since we first spoke more than a year ago, 3D Investigates had been dealing with a Kiwi family grappling with heart-breaking and troubling questions. The baby they loved was not theirs – an IVF-surrogacy arrangement in this Thai city of Chiang Mai had gone horribly wrong. The little boy had no genetic connection to them.

Somewhere out there were his biological parents; somewhere out there, too, perhaps, were the children born of the three embryos they had produced with the husband's sperm and eggs donated by a family member.

Full story: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/74540431/finding-baby-nemos-parents-the-investigation-continues-amid-the-temples-of-chiang-mai-thailand

-- STUFF 2015-11-30

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One of the articles names the hospital. It's a name familiar to everyone but probably wise - due to defamation laws - not to name it here.

Interesting read:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/74520011/kiwi-couple-given-someone-elses-baby-after-their-embryos-mixed-up-in-thai-fertility-hospital.html

Edited November 29, 2015 by Loaded