For the first time in France, two twins were born at Antoine Béclère hospital in Clamart (92) thanks to a egg freezing from mom.
Jérémie (3.2 kg) and Keren (2.8 kg), both in good health, were born thanks to Professor René Frydman, who circumvented the existing law. Indeed, “the law authorizes (…) to preserve oocytes by freezing, but not with the most efficient method (the vitrification or ultra fast freezing) on the pretext that any innovation is assimilated to research on the embryo “explains the professor to AFP.
It is therefore with a slow freezing technique that Professor René Frydman succeeded in these births. René Frydman was also the first to give birth to a French test tube baby, Amandine, in 1982. According to him, the freezing of oocytes could however modify the very practice of the in vitro fertilization : “Today, we stimulate women enormously, with sometimes deleterious effects for them. In the future, we could stimulate more weakly, freeze the oocytes and transfer them later, when the uterus has been prepared for good implantation, ”he told Nouvel Observateur.
Remember that these techniques, in particular egg vitrification, are especially intended for women with cancer who must undergo treatment that may alter their fertility. Their gametes are frozen before their treatment to be thawed afterwards, when they wish to carry out in vitro fertilization.
If today, the obstetrician-gynecologist had to circumvent the law, doctors hope that new research and techniques may be possible thanks to the revision of bioethics laws in 2011.
