First Frozen Egg Baby Born In Canada

The McGill University Health Center (MUHC) in Montreal is pleased to announce the first successful birth in Canada resulting from frozen eggs. A team led by Professor Seang Lin Tan, Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McGill University and Director of the McGill Reproductive Centre at the MUHC in Montreal confirmed the birth of a healthy baby boy, weighing 3740grams on April 29. “We are the first in-vitro fertilization (IVF) Centre in Canada to achieve this success,” says Dr. Tan. “This is fantastic news for both the family and for fertility health research and we would like to congratulate the parents on the birth of their first child.”