Couple Welcome Miracle Baby After Embryo Was Glued To Mum’s Womb

A couple who tried to get pregnant for four years finally have their dream baby – thanks to a small pot of glue which stuck their tiny son to his mum’s womb.

James Janion arrived safely after surgeons painstakingly used the special adhesive to attach a fertilised embryo to the wall of new mum’s uterus.

The 23-year-old turned to the technology after learning that the couple would struggle to conceive as 23-year-old fiancé Anthony Larby’s sperm count was too low.

Thanks to the pioneering EmbryoGlue – offered to those going through IVF – James was born at the Liverpool Women’s Hospital in November weighing 6lbs 14ozs.

The self-employed child minder, said: “I didn’t actually know what it was until it actually came to putting the fertilised egg back in.  I’d asked ‘how does it stay in’ and they said they used glue. I was like ‘okay?’, I was a bit shocked, and thought, but surely it’s a specialised glue and not just normal super glue? I didn’t really know much about it. But I know it worked for us because we now have a little boy, James, who is now seven-and-a-half weeks. And he’s gorgeous.”

Stacey and Anthony were devastated when medics dropped the bombshell they would not be able to conceive naturally.

She said: “Everybody in my family had always conceived naturally and I’m the last one in my family to have a baby. So it was quite a shock to be told you can’t have kids.”

Stacey, from Runcorn, Cheshire, added, “Everybody is in love with him. My mum is always taking him off me. We are absolutely over the moon to have him.”

Karen Schnauffe, consultant embryologist from the Liverpool Women’s Hospital, said: “EmbryoGlue is a special solution that the embryo is placed in just before the embryo is transferred into the uterus. It’s manufactured by a Swedish company called Vitrolife and contains high levels of a chemical called hyaluronan, which is naturally present in the uterus at the time of implantation. It is thought that this helps the embryo merge with the lining of the womb, perhaps similar to the way olive oil is used to soften ear wax. Research strongly suggests that the use of EmbryoGlue increases pregnancy rates.”

Source: mirror.co.uk