‘Three-Parent’ IFV Treatment Made Possible For ‘Infertile’ Woman As She Gives Birth

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The ‘three-way parent’ treatment to be used for giving birth was already noted as not yet possible by most scientists. Yet, what was known as the IFV treatment, had been made possible by a 34-year old infertile woman who just gave birth to her son last Jan. 5.

Daily Mail reported that the Ukrainian woman and her husband had already undergone several IFV treatments for months. But alas, they weren’t successful with their search. Just then, a revolutionary doctor named Dr. Valery Zukin made the couple’s desire possible in Kiev, a fertility clinic in Ukraine. His success was known as the first in the world for using pronuclear transfer in giving birth to a child.

Moreover, the IFV treatment involved the fertilization of the wife’s egg first along with the husband’s sperm. The team then waited for both the nucleus of each egg to mature for the parent’s genes to be carried by the baby. After that, the transfer of the combined genes with the female donor takes place. Thus results would be, is the baby’s genes to be more inclined on both the original parents and only a little amount from the donor.

On top of that, this became a widely known matter since the IFV procedure is used under the function of removing genetic disorder known as mitochondrial disease. The success became controversial since the Ukrainian clinic used it on an infertile couple and not a mitochondrial disease carrier. Nonetheless, the baby delivered was claimed “healthy” by the doctor.

Amid the success delivery of the once infertile woman, doctors still not advise women to not undergo the treatment since it is unsafe for others yet as Times reported. Despite halting the hopes of women, Zukin already announced another infertile 29-year-old woman bound to give birth under his supervision through the same procedure this coming March.