Swedish mother flew to China for childbirth after doctors in Sweden can't handle her situation.
  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
    82·
    13 days ago

    idiot 58 year old refuses to have standard procedure performed during the birth of her last impregnation with her last frozen frozen embryo, and travels somewhere with less ethics.

    she wants her womb despite the serious complications of keeping it, and despite the fact she wont need it ever again.

    • pancake@lemmygrad.ml
      10·
      13 days ago

      somewhere with less ethics

      Hysterectomy is the standard procedure, but obviously isn’t performed if the patient doesn’t want it (which in this case is idiotic, but removing organs without consent is never allowed). The reason she flew abroad was not that her doctors would force her to undergo hysterectomy (which would be against medical ethics), but simply that they had less experience in placenta accreta surgery. Many patients that suffer this complication aren’t in such a ridiculous situation, and keeping their womb is an interesting option for them, it is routinely offered in mild cases. Since placenta accreta is very common in China, there are many doctors there who are specialized in it, that’s all.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      13 days ago

      This just gets worse the more you read. They already have ELEVEN KIDS.

      • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
        61·
        13 days ago

        She is 58 and the dad is 75, what kind of life can they offer this child? I’m worried that I will die when my child is in his 40ies because I was over 40 when he was born, but this guy …

        • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          13 days ago

          I didn’t even see that. So they’re also at elevated risk of complications and birth defects. Also this:

          Anna loves the feeling of being pregnant.

          This is messed up and incredibly selfish.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netEnglish
    33·
    13 days ago

    The funny part about this one unethical instance is that tens of thousands of Chinese mothers flock every year to give birth in other countries because they are afraid of the terrible conditions in China (in addition to trying to get their Child a different nationality than Chinese).

    Was it difficult to figure out how to give birth in the U.S.?
    No. Hsuan typed in the phrases “going to the U.S.” and “giving birth to babies” into China’s Baidu search engine and millions of results popped up.
    Many agencies offer to arrange every aspect of a mother’s trip. Eventually she settled on an agency in Shanghai called Meijiabei, or Good American Baby.

    https://www.marketplace.org/2019/03/06/why-chinese-parents-come-america-give-birth/