A Brit had decided to travel nearly 4,000 miles by plane to give birth ‘naturally’ with her husband on a beach in St Lucia in the Caribbean, but things didn’t go as planned and the small family couldn’t no longer go home.
Iuliia Gurzhii, 38, and her husband Clive, 51, flew to Rodney Bay, St. Lucia to fulfill their dream of welcoming their second child to the beach, the New York Post reported.
However, Iuliia ruptured her waters earlier than expected and gave birth on April 23 on a boat. Since then, the family has been stuck in a bureaucratic hell that prevents them from registering their granddaughter Louisa and thus getting her a passport to return to their country.
“We don’t have the money,” explained the father. Soon we will run out of food and nobody will help us.”
A few days after the birth, Iuliia took her baby to the Owen King European Union (OKEU) Hospital in St. Lucia for registration, but the staff told her they couldn’t do the paperwork because the little girl had been pregnant for more than 24 years years in the world is Std.
“We went into the office and filled out the paperwork for a birth certificate,” Clive added. We waited several weeks before the practice finally contacted us and said there was nothing they could do as the baby was not born in the hospital and nobody was watching the delivery.
The new parents therefore turned to the immigration authorities, who asked them to prove that the baby was indeed their child. The same reaction from the administration to get a passport for Louisa.
The distraught parents eventually sailed to Grenada to try their luck and had to take a DNA test to prove they were the baby’s parents. They now have to wait for the results, as does their eight-year-old first child, Elizabeth, who stayed in England.