China News Service, Wuhan, June 17 (Zhou Jianyue, Wen Honglei, Huang Jieying) Ten years ago, Ms. Wang successfully conceived a lovely son through test tube baby technology, and left a batch of frozen embryos. Last year, she again performed a transplant operation to successfully "recover" a high-quality embryo and gave birth to a baby boy in a cesarean section on June 16.
Ms. Wang introduced that she was ready to be a mother when she got married, but repeated spontaneous abortions made her both physically and mentally exhausted, and failed to get her wish for 5 years of pregnancy. In 2009, she came to the Reproductive Center of Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital and decided to implement test-tube babies. In October of that year, she successfully transferred an embryo, and the remaining embryos were frozen and stored in the reproductive center.
In June 2010, Ms. Wang gave birth to the next baby boy of 6 kg and 9 ces. The birth of his son Lulu (pseudonym) added endless joy to the family. Lulu grew up slowly, cute and sensible. In the past two years, he has a wish: want a younger brother or younger sister.
The doctor performed cesarean section for Ms. Wang. Photo courtesy
Ms. Wang and her husband also missed the batch of frozen embryos in the hospital. Last year, she came to the reproductive center of Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital again and decided to fight again to add a "two treasure" to her family.
"Ms. Wang is 40 years old, and the success rate of test-tube babies is not high." Zheng Jie, director of the Reproductive Center of the Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital, has repeatedly considered and decided to use the "capsule raising technology" to increase the chance of survival of this embryo transfer.
In the conventional IVF technique, the embryos can be transplanted for 2 to 3 days after the eggs are taken for transplantation, and the "capsule" is to keep these embryos for another two days, and then select the better quality embryos for transplantation. "We often call embryos that have been cultivated for two or three days as seeds, and continue to grow for two more days to see which seeds can germinate and continue to grow." Zheng Jie metaphorically said.
Ms. Wang's pregnancy checkup (data map). Photo courtesy
Through the "capsule raising" technology, Ms. Wang successfully conceived her baby. Under the guidance of experts from the Hubei Maternal and Child Health Hospital, she was relatively smooth throughout her pregnancy and gave birth to a baby boy on June 16. Coincidentally, this baby weighs exactly the same as his brother when he was born.
Because it was in the same hospital, the same doctor did the test tube operation, the same doctor did the cesarean section operation, the two babies were the same batch of embryos, the same gender, the same weight, were also born in June, Ms. Wang and her husband Happy to name Erbao "Tongtong".
"From a medical point of view, Lu Lu and Tong Tong are twin brothers." Zheng Jie introduced that the twins are ten years apart, and there are so many similarities, which is extremely rare. (Finish)