A widow from Vero Beach, Florida has given birth to a healthy baby girl after going through IVF using frozen embryos fertilized by her deceased husband. After she lost her husband in 2015, Kristen Tripson, 34, decided to fulfill their dream of having another baby. She announced after six months that she would have a baby through invitro fertilization. And on Oct. 23, 2016, she welcomed their third child.
On her Instagram account, Kristen Tripson, 34, posted a picture of their family's latest addition. The caption said: "Hello world! Meet Lillie Belle." The child was born at around 3:03 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016. The healthy newborn weighed 8lbs 5oz. 21 inches long.
Kristen and husband, Sam Tripson, had undergone in vitro fertilization or IVF in the past and made a decision to freeze their embryos on 2012 before her husband started treatment for his stage 4 Hodgkin's lymphoma. IVF is a method of insemination by manually joining a sperm and egg cells at a laboratory dish and then transmitting the embryo to a woman's uterus. Kristen said they did this to have more biological children after the treatment of her husband's cancer.
After Sam had died due to Hodgkin's lymphoma, Kristen decided to go through in vitro fertilization finally, using her husband's fertilized egg. On February 9, with her mom and mother-in-law on her side, Kristen had their two fertilized embryos transferred into her uterus, the Essential Baby has learned. Later on, she announced on her Instagram that she's pregnant. On her Instagram, she wrote: "Well. I'm pregnant. And, yes. It's Sam's," the Parent Herald has learned.
Finally, on Oct. 23, Kristen welcomed their third child with her late husband. She said it was always their plan regardless of what happened, that they would have a chance at life.
A 2012 report showed that doctors from fertilization clinics in the United States had performed 165,172 procedures, including IVF, with 61,740 infants born as a result of all those procedures in 2012, the CNN has learned. That is around 2,000 more babies born utilizing treatments from IVF clinics than in the year 2011, the report added.
