Greek Woman Has IVF Birth 21 Years After Losing Son
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A 54-year-old Greek woman born a baby from a frozen embryo 22 years ago, after the death of her 21-year-old son who had come into the world due to the same in vitro fertilization procedures.
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A Greek woman lost her 21-year-old son last October, who died in a road accident. Thanks to an embryo from the same series of embryos preserved since 2004, she gave birth to a girl.
"For Christina Rapti-Tzelepi, today's birth has a very special emotional significance," said Gynaecologist Konstantinos Pantos in a Facebook post. "In 2004, after an embryo transfer, he had a healthy baby in the first attempt. In October 2025, the family suffered the tragic loss of their son in a traffic accident, at 21 years old," Pantos explained. Rapti-Tzelepi is 54 years old, the maximum age allowed in Greece to undergo in vitro fertilizatio…
A woman gave birth to a little girl through an embryo retained for more than two decades, a year after the accidental death of her son born under the same procedure.
A woman from Greece was born after an in vitro fertilisation with a frozen embryo 22 years ago, according to the announcement made on Wednesday by her doctor, quoted by AFP. Christina Rapti-Tzelepi is 54 years old, the maximum allowed age in Greece for in vitro fertilisation. For her, "birth today has an emotional significance ...
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