This is an incredible moment or nothing short of a medical miracle after a woman became the first person to have a baby from an ovary removed and frozen when she was a child.
Twenty-four-year-old Moaza Al Matrooshi's right ovary was removed when she was 9 before the onset of puberty. It was cryogenically frozen and put back last year. This made her fertile again, and following a successful course of IVF treatment she gave birth to a baby boy at Portland Hospital, in London, on December 13, 2016.
Moaza Al Matrooshi from Dubai was born with beta thalassaemia, an inherent blood disorder that is fatal if untreated. She needed chemotherapy, which would have left her infertile, so surgeons removed her ovary in the hope it might help her have a child. Once restored, the tissue started producing eggs.
