China ushered in the first "test tube baby" in March 1988.
However, the advent of IVF has sparked many debates.
Some believe that this represents a medical advancement, but others claim that the baby will not live longer than 40 years.
The first test-tube baby in China has been born for 36 years, what is her current condition?
——Hope is coming.]—
Zheng Guizhen is from Lixian County, Gansu Province, and she grew up under the care of her parents. In the 70s of the last century, she married a young man from a neighboring village on a blind date with the help of her parents.
He is an honest and reliable person, and he is also very kind to Zheng Guizhen, and their married life is becoming more and more happy and full of happiness.
However, a few years later, the enviable young couple was so frequently pointed at and ridiculed by the villagers that they were afraid to go out again.
Zheng Guizhen and her husband have been married for many years, but they have not yet ushered in the good news of their children. Compared to them, couples who married later have already welcomed their second child. At that time, there was a general belief in the importance of succession.
Zheng Guizhen has not been able to get pregnant, which makes the whole family very anxious. In order to solve this problem, the parents searched around for various pregnancy recipes for Zheng Guizhen, but nothing worked.
Because of them, their parents faced a situation where it was difficult to raise their heads in the village, and they had to avoid their neighbors when they went out. Over time, Zheng Guizhen's in-laws developed an opinion of her, believing that she was like a "hen that does not lay eggs".
Zheng Guizhen could feel the change in her in-laws' attitude towards her, which made her feel anxious. Although she and her husband were both examined at the county hospital, and the diagnosis showed that neither of them had fertility problems, the success of the pregnancy was all due to fate.
Although the doctors said that they were all in good health, Zheng Guizhen was still unable to get pregnant. Later, some relatives suggested that they go to a large hospital for an examination, because the medical equipment in the prefecture is limited after all, which may lead to inaccurate examination results.
Zheng Guizhen and her husband left for the city's hospital for treatment, but the results of this examination gave her a blow in the face. That's it.
The diagnosis showed that Zheng Guizhen had blockages in both fallopian tubes, and also suffered from tuberculous pelvic inflammatory disease, so she could not get pregnant at all.
After hearing the diagnosis, Zheng Guizhen sat down in the corridor of the hospital. It was only then that she realized that they had not been able to have their own children all along, and it turned out to be because of her own problems.
Zheng Guizhen felt very ashamed of her husband, and as soon as she returned home, she confessed her illness to the whole family, and she was ready to be abandoned by her husband's family.
Fortunately, Zheng Guizhen's husband is a kind person. Although he was her husband, he said he would never abandon his wife. Since she is sick, there will definitely be a way. If the hospital in the city can't keep up with the demand, go to a bigger hospital.
If the wife still can't get pregnant in the end, they plan to adopt a child.
Jung Gye-jin is touched by her husband's love, but she realizes that she can't be so selfish. Just when she made up her mind to divorce her husband, a piece of news suddenly caught her attention and made her immediately believe that there was hope for her and her husband's children.
——The mother of Shenzhou IVF"·].
Zheng Guizhen happened to read a newspaper report about "test tube baby", a medical technology researched and developed by Zhang Lizhu, a doctor at Peking University Third Hospital.
This report is a broad recruitment of volunteers and aims to explain the meaning of "IVF" to the world.
Zheng Guizhen saw the news and learned that IVF technology can allow women who are unable to conceive normally and cannot conceive children to realize their dreams of motherhood again. She couldn't wait to decide to give it a try.
She confided her thoughts to her husband, and when he heard about the technology, his first reaction was that they finally had a way to conceive a child of their own.
However, his second reaction was worry, because after all, they had never heard of this technology before, so it must be very risky, and he didn't want his wife to take this risk.
Zheng Guizhen would never miss this opportunity, and her husband had to agree and accompany her to Peking University Third Hospital to find Professor Zhang Lizhu, facing his wife's insistence.
Zhang Lizhu, who came from a wealthy background, is one of the first experts in my country to study IVF, and she has studied abroad with her own efforts, thus coming into contact with many advanced medical technologies.
After completing her studies, she had a deeper understanding of the medical method of "IVF", and then resolutely decided to return to China to bring back advanced medical technology for the benefit of our compatriots.
After returning to China, Zhang Lizhu joined Peking University Third Hospital and set up a team specializing in IVF technology, and she was eager to help more women realize their dream of motherhood.
Despite the rudimentary medical equipment and failed attempts by volunteers to advance the technology, Zhang Lizhu did not give up and firmly believed that one day she would be able to use this technology to benefit more people.
Because the previous trials had failed and the technology was so new, few people were willing to sign up anymore. Just when Zhang Lizhu was annoyed by this, Zheng Guizhen suddenly appeared in front of her.
Zheng Guizhen expressed her thoughts to Zhang Lizhu, and Zhang Lizhu explained to him the uncertainty of this technology. For this, Zheng Guizhen expressed her willingness to try.
Under Zhang Lizhu's arrangement, Zheng Guizhen was successfully admitted to the hospital and began to receive this medical technology.
Despite the poor medical conditions at the time, Zhang Lizhu eventually succeeded in extracting eggs from Zheng Guizhen's body using an egg retrieval needle, and Zheng Guizhen did not experience any bleeding or surgical infection.
After Zhang Lizhu's operation, 4 eggs were successfully fertilized in the test tube and matured into embryos. On June 26, 1987, Zheng Guizhen entered the operating room again to undergo embryo transfer.
Under Zhang Lizhu's leadership, fortunately, all the doctors successfully implanted the embryo into Zheng Guizhen's uterus after an intense operation. Two months later, Zhang Lizhu performed a B-ultrasound examination for Zheng Guizhen and successfully found the fetus.
Zhang Lizhu successfully completed the research of "IVF", so everyone was excited, especially herself, who became the "mother of IVF in China".
Zheng Guizhen also became the first mother in China to successfully transplant IVF.
Due to Zheng Guizhen's special situation, all the staff in the hospital are particularly concerned about her, and the doctors are eagerly looking forward to the arrival of this child.
However, once the news was announced, people had different opinions on it.
Some people look at this issue and believe that this represents a major advance in some of our country's technologies and is an encouraging progress; Others insisted that the child would not live to be 40 years old and that he would be born with a disability.
Although the outside world has different opinions about this child, Zheng Guizhen's family is still very much looking forward to the arrival of the child.
At 8:56 a.m. on March 10, 1988, Beijing time, Zheng Guizhen successfully gave birth to a baby girl named Zheng Mengzhu in the Third Hospital of Peking University. As the first test-tube baby in China, Zheng Mengzhu has received widespread attention from the outside world.
So, 36 years have passed, how is Zheng Mengzhu's life?
——Growing in questioning.]—
Because of Zheng Mengzhu's uniqueness, she has attracted attention from the outside world since she was a child. When she grew up, she often wondered why everyone would look at her whenever she went out, and some uncles and aunts would even raise their cameras to photograph her.
Under the explanation of her parents, Zheng Mengzhu realizes what makes her different, but as a precocious and intelligent child, she quickly accepts the way she exists in this world.
Her mother told her that she was an angel sent from heaven and had had her own mission since birth.
With the comfort and encouragement of her mother, Zheng Mengzhu not only did not feel inferior because of the way she came, but cultivated a lively and cheerful personality, and she was more precocious than children of the same age since she was a child.
She learned to walk at the age of more than a year, can recite ancient poems at the age of two, and despite being an IVF baby and physically disabled, she is very intelligent and loved by the whole family.
Under the care of the whole family, Zheng Mengzhu has grown up healthily. At first, she was bored and uncomfortable with the reporters' filming and observations, but slowly, she no longer avoided them, but showed them unabashedly in front of the camera.
Over time, Zheng Mengzhu successfully graduated from Xijing University in Xi'an and eventually went to work at the Third Hospital in Beijing.
Zheng Mengzhu understood that she was the first IVF baby in China, which was one of the reasons why she chose to work in the North Third Hospital, because there were still many doubts about this technology at that time.
In order to allow more women to realize their desire to be mothers, Zheng Mengzhu decided to use herself as a publicity target to encourage more women to try this technology with confidence.
Although Zheng Mengzhu has grown up healthily in the voice of suspicion, there are still doubts that she may be able to have children. However, Zheng Mengzhu quickly broke the outside world's skepticism about this doubt.
Soon after, Zheng Mengzhu successfully ushered in the first baby boy after marriage on April 15, 2019, and the boy also became a "domestic IVF second-generation baby".
Zheng Mengzhu used her personal experience to prove to the world the maturity of this technology in China, so that many women who took a wait-and-see attitude began to believe that this medical technology has the potential to bring endless benefits to mankind in the future.
——Conclusion·]—
Today, Zheng Mengzhu works as an archivist in the North Third Hospital, and she and her husband are happily married, and the children they have born are also growing up healthy. Zheng Mengzhu successfully broke some people's doubts about the longevity of "IVF".
In the end, I wish Zheng Mengzhu a happy and happy life in the future and a happy family.