Emergency Appeal!
A baby girl born at just 22 weeks, weighing only 480 grams, is forced to remain in a NICU Japan.
She has not yet learned how to cry, but she is already fighting with every breath she takes.
She urgently needs RM1.5 million just for a chance to survive and come home

Her eyes are open, quietly watching.
As if she is waiting for a familiar embrace, a place she can safely return to.

“I want to go home…”

These are words a 22-week premature baby cannot speak, yet they are a cry she is making with her life.

Born weighing only 480 grams, she was forced due to extreme prematurity to face the world alone in a neonatal intensive care unit overseas.

Every single day, she fights for survival, waiting for a chance to go home.

Alexis Liang Xi Yue, from Bukit Mertajam, Penang, should have been resting safely in her mother’s womb, waiting until full term to enter this world.

Instead, due to an unforeseen emergency, she was forced to be born prematurely in Japan when her mother was only 22 weeks pregnant.

What was meant to be a honeymoon turned, in an instant, into a battle between life and death.

【From a Honeymoon to a Life-or-Death Crisis, A Baby Born Before She Could Return Home】

When the couple planned their wedding earlier this year, they had already arranged a year-end honeymoon to Japan. To keep costs manageable, they booked their flights and accommodation early, hoping to complete this long-awaited trip on a modest budget.

Before departure, the mother went for a medical check-up. After assessment, the doctor issued a medical clearance confirming she was fit to fly.

With professional advice and careful consideration, the couple proceeded with their plan and flew to Tokyo on 9 November.

Shortly after arriving in Tokyo, however, the mother experienced severe pain and abnormal bleeding. The father, overwhelmed with anxiety, rushed her to several hospitals and clinics, but due to equipment limitations, appointment requirements, and healthcare system constraints, she was unable to receive immediate examination.

Left with no alternative, they returned to the hotel and booked a 11:00 p.m. flight that same night to return to Malaysia for treatment.

【All Plans Fell Apart, A New Life Arrived in a Hotel Room】

They believed they still had time to make it home. But fate did not wait.

At approximately 4:00 p.m., the mother suddenly began bleeding heavily. The father immediately sought help from the hotel front desk to call an ambulance.

Within moments, when he rushed back to the room, the baby had already been born…

A tiny life, still attached to the umbilical cord, with a heart that was still beating, lay quietly on the hotel room floor.

In complete panic and without medical guidance, the father had no choice but to cut the umbilical cord himself.

Cradling a baby weighing only a few hundred grams, yet still struggling to breathe, he rushed downstairs to hand her to the paramedics.

At that moment, there were no choices left. Only speed determined the line between life and death.

【A 480-Gram Life Stranded Overseas, Every Breath Paid for With Time and Medical Costs】

Baby Alexis was rushed to a hospital in Tokyo and admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for emergency treatment.

Like all extremely premature infants, she faces a long list of critical challenges, including chronic lung disease, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, immature retina development, and right ventricular brain hemorrhage.

Doctors have advised that Alexis must survive until her original due date (late March 2026) before discharge can even be considered, and only if her condition remains stable.

Based on preliminary estimates, the total medical expenses including neonatal intensive care, examinations, and long-term treatment required for a premature infant are expected to reach RM1.5 million.

【Breast Milk Is Her Lifeline at This Critical Stage, One Hope Charity Steps In to Support, Mother Flown to Japan on 28 December】

Doctors advised that baby Alexis’s condition would be more stable and her development better supported if her parents could remain in Japan and allow her mother to breastfeed her directly.

However, the cost of long-term accommodation, transportation, and daily living in Japan made this option financially impossible for the family.

Faced with harsh realities, the parents had no choice but to return to Malaysia to continue working and sustain basic income, while arranging monthly trips to Japan so the mother could personally breastfeed Alexis and ensure she did not lose this vital source of nutrition.

Even while in Malaysia, the mother never allowed her milk supply to stop. She pumps at least eight times a day, waking up twice every night, not to ship the milk overseas, but to maintain lactation,
so that when she flies to Japan, she can breastfeed her baby and remain by her side.

The father, Liang Chee Liang (32), is an engineer earning approximately RM6,000 per month. The mother, Chan Luen Chiag (29), is a manicurist earning around RM2,000 monthly. To keep their daughter alive, the father has even considered selling the family’s only vehicle to cover flight tickets and basic accommodation costs.

After completing home visits and case verification, ONE HOPE CHARITY resolved to step in and provide assistance.

To ensure Alexis’s breastfeeding would not be interrupted, upon approval of aid, One Hope Charity immediately arranged for the mother to fly to Japan yesterday (28 Dec), so she could personally breastfeed Alexis and remain by her side protecting the child’s most critical lifeline at this moment.

The family has entrusted ONE HOPE CHARITY with full authority to manage the fundraising campaign and receive donations on their behalf. For this case, One Hope Charity has allocated RM100,000 from its Emergency Medical and Contingency Reserve Fund as initial assistance.

However, the remaining medical expenses remain overwhelming. Public support is urgently needed to help safeguard this tiny life that is fighting with everything she has to survive.

For enquiries, please contact ONE HOPE CHARITY 04-539 9212, 016-419 2192, 019-232 2192 or 018-911 4192.