A baby girl was successfully born of a four-year-old frozen embryo through a surrogate mother at a private hospital here on Monday.
The baby girl’s parents — a couple from Rohtak — had stored the embryo with Southend IVF Centre, Holy Angel, in 2010. Four years later, the embryo was transferred to a surrogate at Vansh Health Care, the first surrogacy home of Gurgaon, earlier this year.
According to Dr. Meenakshi Sahuta of Max Hospital, where the baby was delivered, the child weighed three kg and is healthy.
“The couple was trying to have a baby since 2002, but the woman could not conceive due to medical complications. She tried to have a baby through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), but she had a miscarriage all the three times. She had made the last attempt in 2010. She had also stored an embryo at Holy Angel and four years later, the couple decided to have a child through surrogacy. It was the couple’s last opportunity to have a child with the mother’s own eggs since the woman could not produce eggs due to medical complications. The couple is very happy,” said Vansh Health Care director Bajrang Saharan.
“Though the success rate in case of frozen embryos now is on par with fresh embryo cases, it is first such case in Gurgaon where a frozen embryo has led to a successful delivery,” said Dr. Malik.
The availability of potential surrogates and world-class medical infrastructure, coupled with better connectivity, has fuelled the growth of commercial surrogacy in the Millennium City. Gurgaon has seen a spurt in the number of Assisted Reproductive Technique clinics over the past one year since the first surrogacy home was set up. Kapashera, on the Delhi-Gurgaon border, which is mostly inhabited by automobile and construction workers, and daily wage earners, has emerged as a hub for potential surrogates in the NCR.
