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Shani Moran-Simmonds, British Girl Born After Her Embryo Was Frozen For 11 Years

Posted on Jun. 01, 2009 by Lindsay Britney

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Meet Shani Moran-Simmonds, the 3-year-old British girl who was born after her embryo was frozen for 11 years.

Shani Moran-Simmonds was born to parents Debbie and Colin Moran-Simmonds who are from Great Barr near Birmingham, in 2005. Shani’s is an extremely precious gift to Mr. and Mrs Moran Simmonds because she is the only one that her mom could finally pregnant with during the in vitro fertilization treatments of nearly two decades.

Since 1989, Ms Debbie’s problematic fallopian tubes have almost ruined her dream to be a mom. After the surgeries, she suffered an ectopic pregnancy and she failed to get pregnant for numerous times through the IVF treatments.

Debbie was so distraught that she and her husband once stopped considering to have a baby. When a bill of a fertility clinic 4 years ago came to tell the storage of their 10-years-old embryos kept frozen since 1995 were to be expired, Ms. Debbie and Colin decided to have one final attempt at parenthood and the two best embryos were implanted to her womb. One of these two embryos later became Shani Moran-Simmonds.

After having Shani who is believed to be one of the oldest frozen babies, Debbie was implanted frozen embryos to her uterus three more times, but she failed to get pregnant again.

Read full story (with Shani and her parents’ photos) at Dailymail

Link to Metro’s 2007 story Meet Shani, the 12-year-old baby

Elizabeth Adeney, 66, Is Britain’s Oldest Mother Soon To Give Birth

Posted on May. 16, 2009 by Lindsay Britney

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Pregnant Elizabeth Adeney Photo

Elizabeth Adeney, 66, is soon to be Britain’s oldest mother to give birth. The previous oldest woman in UK to give birth is Dr Patricia Rashbrook, a psychiatrist whose son was born in 2006 when she was 62 years old.

Elizabeth Adeney, a wealthy businesswoman from Sulfok, now is eight months pregnant. She is expected to have her first child within 4-6 weeks via Caesarean section. Unlike Patricia who has a husband at his later 40’s, Adeney is a divorcee. She has to bring up her baby by herself in the future.

Elizabeth Adeney conceived her baby using donor eggs and sperm after receiving the in vitro fertility treatment in Ukraine in 2008. In the UK, the hospitals did not offer the IVF treatment to the woman whose age is above 50. Source: Dailymail

Twins-pregnant Rebecca Romijn Page Six Magazine Cover Photo

Posted on Nov. 09, 2008 by Lindsay Britney

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Twins-pregnant Rebecca Romijn Page Six Magazine Cover Photo! A heavily pregnant Rebecca Romijn appears on the cover of New York Post’s Page Six Magazine. Romijn who played Alexis Meade on Ugly Betty until recently in the episode Betty Suarez Land, will give birth to husband Jerry O’Connell’s twin daughters in winter.

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Page Six Magazine Cover Photo of Rebecca Romijn Pregnant with Twins

The 37-year-old actress talked about her fertility drug intervention, pregnant body and divorce from ex-hubby John Stamos [wikipedia] among others:

“We did not do IVF… A year ago, we tried [the fertility drug] Clomid for a couple of months unsuccessfully. But by the second month, I was like, ‘Ahhh! I hate this!’ I think when you start messing with your own hormones, it’s crazy-making.”

“I can’t move anymore…I’m a beached whale! …I have not been without a bra this entire pregnancy. I refuse. I’m not taking any chances. I’m determined to keep the puppies up!”

“There is absolutely no truth to that (the cause of the 2004 divorce from John Stamos was because of her reluctancy to have children, editor). That [story] was completely made up. I desperately wanted kids. I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I’ve always dreamed about decorating my baby’s nursery.”