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Boy born to mothers who carried egg in both wombs

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Doyoumind · 04/12/2019 18:45

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-50659382

What are your thoughts on this? To me it seems like a procedure entirely in the interests of the parents and not the child. Perhaps IABU.

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flashbac · 04/12/2019 18:49

I really hope people don't expect our stretched NHS to fund this.

BlueThursday · 04/12/2019 18:50

I’d be terrified of it not working out due to too much fiddling

GertiMJN · 04/12/2019 18:51

As you say it's a wholy unnecessary procedure that creates risks for the embryo.

I am very uncomfortable with the statement We are a true family Hmm

Which family groups are fake?

Mickhasnotorso · 04/12/2019 18:52

I read it and felt pleased for them. The negatives didn't occur to me.

JuniLoolaPalooza · 04/12/2019 18:54

I don't get it. Why do the eggs need to be incubated? Is this after fertilisation? There's a lot of missing information.
Is it just so they can say the baby was in both mothers?

TinklyLittleLaugh · 04/12/2019 18:55

Don’t see the point of moving the embryo around like that. If they both wanted to feel a bond with the child then one carrying the others child would surely have sufficed.

nocluewhattodoo · 04/12/2019 18:55

I don't see the point, why risk the pregnancy so you can both 'have a turn'? It is of no value to the child for this to have been carried out.

Ffsnosexallowed · 04/12/2019 18:56

Madness. Pointless exercise.

Frlrlrubert · 04/12/2019 18:59

So instead of letting the embryo grow in the lab until it was ready for implantation they put the whole 'capsule' in the bio-mum's womb?

What next? Baby incubated in dad's abdominal cavity before implantation so men can have a go too?

ItsChristmaaaaaaaaas · 04/12/2019 19:04

Was this not risky for the baby?

What is the purpose of this - I can understand how it could possibly be useful for rare cases where a mum can’t carry a baby for some reason but I can’t really think that we wold be much call for this procedure.

Wouldn’t the money used be better spend elsewhere curing illness. What about dementia - we need to put money there, or childhood leukaemia? What about diseased of older age, now that we are living longer, or research into better prosthetics for children. A million things really.

Kpo58 · 04/12/2019 19:06

This is one of the most ridiculous things that I've heard. I had to check that it wasn't April 1st.

So they want to risk the health of the baby and potentially miscarry so that they can be a true family? Does that mean that nearly every other marriage on the planet with children doesn't produce a true family because the man doesn't carry the baby? Are they going to develop the technology so that men can experience this too? Confused

misspiggy19 · 04/12/2019 19:08

A true family? Yeah alright luv

RiaOverTheRainbow · 04/12/2019 19:09

Reading a bit about it, I think the idea is there are (potential) benefits to the stages between fertilization and implantation being spent in the womb rather than in a lab. Temporarily removing the embryos means they can be checked for viability/prevent multiple pregnancy, and then it's as easy to implant the second mother's womb as the first's.

Personally I'm not sure having been pregnant for a couple of days would make me feel more bonded to a baby than providing the egg already would.

MarshaBradyo · 04/12/2019 19:11

It was for 18 hours in a capsule. Ok fair enough if that’s what they want to do but the headline made me question how. Similar to a lab though

ThisIsSunrise · 04/12/2019 19:12

Sad that they felt it wouldn’t be a proper bond without that. They spoke about it as if it were a commercial exercise too which feels strange. “Pleased with the whole process”. As if they were buying a new car.

T0tallyFuckedUpFamily · 04/12/2019 19:14

I just wonder how the child will feel when he/she gets older and realise that they put her/his potential to be born, at risk in order to feel like a so called real family?

Rainbowtheunicorn · 04/12/2019 19:15

Absolutely ridiculous and selfish.

GertiMJN · 04/12/2019 19:19

So, if the procedure gives "benefits" to the embryo (all I could find reference to was extra nutrition), is it going to be advocated for all ivf mothers? i.e. incubated by the mother for 18 hours in a capsule in her uterus, removed, checked and put back in the same uterus?

StarClaws · 04/12/2019 19:28

There is so little information on that article, it almost wasn't worth writing it.

So can this capsule be stored anywhere? Can a man incubate the eggs inside him for a few hours before they're implanted in the mother's womb? Might make them feel like a true family.

notepaddramas · 04/12/2019 19:28

Far too much meddling going on here. 'True' family what for?! Producing an egg to be transplanted elsewhere. Weird outlook and personally I think it's the very first step in not putting the dc first over their own agendas

MarshaBradyo · 04/12/2019 19:29

I can’t see how the capsule could allow extra nutrition, but maybe someone knows

RiaOverTheRainbow · 04/12/2019 19:30

According to the website It is already used by male/female couples and single mothers. Whether it becomes widespread will presumably depend on if there is evidence that it is or isn't beneficial.

Anxietea · 04/12/2019 19:30

What is the bloody point?? Xmas Hmm

WarmSausageTea · 04/12/2019 19:32

"The whole process was an amazing experience and we got everything we wanted from it."

So it was all about what they wanted, rather than what was best for the baby. What with that and the comment about being a “true family”, they strike me as selfish and smug.

Also, how has this ended up in the news? No doubt they’ll pop up on This Morning any day now.

takeittogo · 04/12/2019 19:32

Doesn’t matter what the point is. The point is this was the way they felt most comfortable with.

It is difficult as a same sex couple having a child because one won’t be biologically related.