Baby Born From Frozen Sperm, Frozen Egg As found from Happy News. Here is some of the story, which describes possibly the first baby born in the US, using these procedures together.
”When they told me my tubes were blocked, I was naturally devastated,” she said. ”Here I was, ready to finally have the baby of my dreams and I couldn’t.”
Egg freezing traditionally has been reserved for women who suffered from illnesses that might leave them infertile and has a low success rate. But there has been recent demand for the procedure by women in their 30s who want to have children in the future but are afraid they will be too old to conceive the traditional way, said Dr. Jane Frederick, who oversaw Domasin’s fertility treatment.
The low viability of frozen eggs is due, in part, to ice crystals that can damage the egg’s structure, though freezing sperm has been done for decades, said Richard Paulson, a professor of reproductive medicine at USC.
There have been about 200 documented births from frozen eggs worldwide, Paulson said. But he had not heard of other cases of frozen egg/frozen sperm conceptions. The Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics reported one case last year in Australia.
Adrienne Domasin gave birth in mid April to Noah Peter Domasin by using both frozen sperm and a frozen egg. The baby weighed 8 lbs 4 oz, reportedly healthy and with Domasin also doing well, enamored with her new son.
Hopefully with this success, there will be more children born to women who need to use frozen eggs either by choice or not due to illness or blockage. As stated before, some women try to freeze their eggs in order to delay becoming a mom. In Domasin’s case, the frozen sperm that was used was from a donor, as Domasin is single woman.
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