One Frozen Sperm and One Egg Make One Improbable IVF Baby

We've all heard the one egg, last-ditch Hail Mary IVF cycles that have resulted in babies (although never for us). But here's a story that takes the improbable cake. A baby just celebrated her nine-month birthday thanks to a clinic that was able to freeze one sperm to go along with the one egg they had to work with. One ICSI procedure later and Kenley Schiraldi began splitting and developing and ... well, she's here with us today, which proves that ART technology is getting better and better.

“It was like a shot in the dark,” said Nina Desai, director of the IVF laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic."

A shot in the dark? Aren't they all.

'Miracle' baby born from single frozen sperm Everyone knows it takes just one sperm and one egg to make a baby, but nature usually provides extra, just to be sure. In the case of 9-month-old Kenley Schiraldi of Campbell, Ohio, however, there was no back-up for the biology, requiring instead what scientists -- and her parents -- are calling a modern-day miracle. Kenley was born last April, the result of a long-shot infertility treatment, a case Cleveland Clinic IVF experts say is the first time a single sperm has been frozen, injected into a single egg -- and resulted in a healthy pregnancy. “It was better than hitting the lottery,” said Jennifer Schiraldi, 33, Kenley’s mom. “This never happens." Indeed, even Nina Desai, director of the IVF laboratory at the Cleveland Clinic, hasn’t calculated the odds of Kenley’s conception, which occurred even though her father, Jason, produced no sperm in the regular way, and her mom had trouble producing eggs. Read more at TODAY health ...

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