The happy new parents took an informed decision about surrogate motherhood that puts them on par with the likes of Nicole Kidman and Sarah Jessica Parker

A couple of years ago, director Kiran Rao lost her baby, just three months into her pregnancy. She and actor-director-producer husband Aamir Khan were devastated by the loss, as any expectant parents would be, but they dealt with it with dignity and restraint, with no public hoo-ha and no media bytes beyond a carefully worded statement. And now, with as much restraint and dignity, though with a great deal of joy coming through with every word, they have become brand new parents via a mixture of science and destiny – on December 1, at a private clinic in Mumbai, Aamir and Kiran were given the gift of a baby boy, born to a surrogate mother using in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). Click here to read more