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Old 02-02-2007   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by StewartG
My son, Iain, is a "test tube" baby. Not only was he conceived via in vitro fertilization, they actually used the ICSI technique (Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection). What does that mean, you ask? Well, it means that an embryologist took one of KelliG's harvested ovum and snagged (with a very, very, very small glass pipette) one of my sperm, and MANUALLY inserted my sperm into KelliG's egg, then reimplanted the embryo into her at the blastocyst stage. That is to say, the sperm and the egg that were used to make my most precious "little guy" were manually picked out by a fellow human.

Truly, in every sense of the word, an absolute miracle of modern medicine. Look:



See what I mean?

So I was wondering - are there any other test tube parents out there in playa.info land?
was that taken at babes?
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