Husband Works: Birth and Fiona Ren

husband works: Facing the last months of her pregnancy alone, she decided to book a room in a Richmond birth house, a place that provides room and board for expectant mothers, according to CTV. The homes have popped up in Metro Vancouver in response to a spike in birth tourism, a phenomenon where pregnant women travel to Canada for the purpose of giving birth, so their children are born with automatic Canadian citizenship. Fiona Ren is a permanent resident of Canada, but her husband works in Hong Kong. Last month, Vancouver Coastal Health told CTV News that one in six babies born in Richmond are born to foreign mothers. Ren was sent from Richmond to Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, where she gave birth to her son Hugo. The boom in birth tourism means some local mothers, including Ren, are being diverted to hospitals further away because the closest maternity wards are full. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.