President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) is once again a proud grandfather after his only daughter Chen Hsing-yu (陳幸妤) gave birth to a healthy baby boy at the National Taiwan University Hospital yesterday.
The baby is Chen Hsing-yu's third child. However, some gloom overshadowed the newborn's arrival. Chen Hsing-yu likely did not expect that her husband Chao Chien-ming (
Chao has been detained since May 25 on suspicion of insider trading and other offenses.
The hospital issued a statement yesterday afternoon saying that the baby boy was born at 1:02pm by natural delivery, weighing 3.34kg and measuring 51cm tall.
The due date was reported to have been July 20. The doctor said the infant was born three weeks early.
The baby is the president's third grandson. His first grandson was Chao Yi-an (趙翊安), 4, and the second was Chao Yi-ting (趙翊廷), 2.
The president and the first lady visited Chen Hsing-yu and the newborn.
"Both the baby and the mom are fine," said Dr Ho Hong-nerng (
The first family has not yet chosen a name for the newborn.
The president previously jokingly said that the name for his third grandson could be Chao Yi-wai (
According to Ho, Chen Hsing-yu arrived at the hospital yesterday morning around 9am, accompanied of one bodyguard.
Chen Hsing-yu was a child herself when her own father was imprisoned under the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime. She was 10 years old when he began serving a jail term in 1986, for publishing an article in the pro-democracy Formosa magazine which said that former New Party lawmaker Elmer Feng's (馮滬祥) doctoral dissertation was plagiarized.
Under the then-KMT government, Chen Shui-bian was convicted for libel and sentenced to eight months in prison.
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