Surrogacy gives parents chance to have a longed-for grandson

The parents of a couple killed in a car crash five years ago finally have the grandson they longed for, after a surrogate carried to term a fertilized embryo deposited by the couple days before the accident.

The baby, known as Tiantian, was born in a hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in December after his grandparents won a yearlong court battle to use the embryo, Beijing News reported on Monday.

Shen Jie and his wife, Liu Xi, had been married two years and had been undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments at Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in Jiangsu province at the time of their deaths in 2013.