A SCOTS woman who became the first to conceive using a breakthrough IVF technique has given birth to a girl.
Baby Eva was born in Glasgow on Tuesday, thanks to the cutting-edge early embryo viability assessment (Eeva) technique.
Parents Susan Walker-Dempster and David Dempster took their three-day-old to visit staff at Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine (GCRM) yesterday.
The centre's medical director, Dr Marco Gaudoin, said: "This is the biggest development in IVF over the last five years. There's no question about that."
The system uses time-lapse imaging to monitor embryos while they are being incubated, and then uses computer software to select the potentially healthiest embryos.
Images taken at five-minute intervals by computer tell clinicians which embryos are most likely to become a healthy baby.
In standard IVF, embryos are removed from the incubator once a day to be examined under a microscope.
The technology to see cell division happening had not existed before the development of Eeva, whose system is similar to the time-lapse imaging used by other fertility clinics, but produces images every five minutes as opposed to every 10 to 20, and the results are analysed by computer rather than by clinician.
The Dempsters, of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, were the first to conceive using the technique in September last year.
Mrs Walker-Dempster, 35, said: "We came to GCRM and were asked by the embryologist if we wanted to use this Eeva system just before I went into theatre.
"We didn't actually read all the information as you should, but it's not intrusive and we thought it wouldn't do any harm, so we signed up for it – and here we are today with Eva."
The couple told no-one except their parents that they were using the new treatment, which was developed at Stanford University.
And the Dempsters had always planned to call their baby Eva if it was a girl and insisted she was not named after the IVF treatment.
The clinic is the first in Scotland, and only the second in Europe, to offer the system to patients, who must pay £850 on top of the £4000 cost of IVF treatment.
Dr Gaudoin added: "It cost us a lot of money to invest in it, but we thought it was the right thing to go for and we've been very encouraged with what's happened so far."
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Baby Eva was born in Glasgow on Tuesday, thanks to the cutting-edge early embryo viability assessment (Eeva) technique.
Parents Susan Walker-Dempster and David Dempster took their three-day-old to visit staff at Glasgow Centre for Reproductive Medicine (GCRM) yesterday.
The centre's medical director, Dr Marco Gaudoin, said: "This is the biggest development in IVF over the last five years. There's no question about that."
The system uses time-lapse imaging to monitor embryos while they are being incubated, and then uses computer software to select the potentially healthiest embryos.
Images taken at five-minute intervals by computer tell clinicians which embryos are most likely to become a healthy baby.
In standard IVF, embryos are removed from the incubator once a day to be examined under a microscope.
The technology to see cell division happening had not existed before the development of Eeva, whose system is similar to the time-lapse imaging used by other fertility clinics, but produces images every five minutes as opposed to every 10 to 20, and the results are analysed by computer rather than by clinician.
The Dempsters, of Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire, were the first to conceive using the technique in September last year.
Mrs Walker-Dempster, 35, said: "We came to GCRM and were asked by the embryologist if we wanted to use this Eeva system just before I went into theatre.
"We didn't actually read all the information as you should, but it's not intrusive and we thought it wouldn't do any harm, so we signed up for it – and here we are today with Eva."
The couple told no-one except their parents that they were using the new treatment, which was developed at Stanford University.
And the Dempsters had always planned to call their baby Eva if it was a girl and insisted she was not named after the IVF treatment.
The clinic is the first in Scotland, and only the second in Europe, to offer the system to patients, who must pay £850 on top of the £4000 cost of IVF treatment.
Dr Gaudoin added: "It cost us a lot of money to invest in it, but we thought it was the right thing to go for and we've been very encouraged with what's happened so far."
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