Henan Business Daily reporter Xiaoqian Zheng, intern reporter Hu Haiyang - Do you still remember Aqing, who was pregnant nine times and miscarried nine times?
This woman from Xuchang, reported by Business Daily, due to chromosomal abnormalities, can only conceive through egg donation if she wants to have her own child.
Yesterday, Aqing called the reporter to share some good news: On the 11th, she gave birth to a pair of twins - a boy and a girl.
It's not easy to have children, and finally she has become a mother.
Yesterday morning, at the obstetric ward of the Provincial Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital, Aqing's husband was by her side. On February 11th, she became the mother of a pair of twins - a boy and a girl.
The firstborn is a boy, weighing five jin (approximately 2.5kg), while the second is a girl, weighing 4.6 jin (approximately 2.3kg). However, as the babies were born before the 36th week, they are considered premature and currently lie in incubators in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. Director Xu Falin of the intensive care unit said that the babies' development so far is normal. Aqing conceived through egg donation; due to chromosomal abnormalities, she had been pregnant nine times but miscarried all nine times.
"Knowing how precious these children are, the hospital paid special attention," said Wang Lu, head nurse of the First Obstetrics Department at the Provincial Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital. The cesarean section was personally performed by department head Dr. Xu Yajuan, with pediatric doctors specifically standing by. Currently, Aqing is recovering well.
Aqing's family earns a living by driving taxis. Before getting pregnant, the couple took turns driving, but after pregnancy, her husband took over completely, leaving home at five or six in the morning and returning near midnight.
Now, in order to take care of his wife, her husband has been staying at the hospital. With debts piled up, the couple is very worried about the future. (If you want to help them, you can call Aqing at 15938725502.)
She hopes more sisters will be as lucky as her
However, Aqing is even more concerned about other women who share her fate. Waiting just half a year for an egg donor, Aqing considers herself lucky. It is understood that many similar women have to wait over a year, sometimes even longer.
According to the Ministry of Health’s "Management Measures for Human Assisted Reproductive Technology" and "Management Measures for Human Sperm Banks", issued in 2001 and revised in August 2003, it is clearly stipulated that any form of buying and selling sperm, eggs, fertilized eggs, or embryos is prohibited. Egg donation is limited to leftover eggs during human assisted reproductive treatment cycles.
"There are also many online sellers of eggs, claiming that as long as you pay tens of thousands of yuan, you can immediately go to Beijing to choose an egg donor, and finding a graduate student is no problem either," said Aqing. She doesn't understand why, when there are so many private egg trading activities on the internet, the country cannot establish an egg bank like the sperm bank. Although donating eggs may cause some discomfort to women, perhaps there are kind-hearted people who, like donating hematopoietic stem cells, are willing to help others.