Friday, September 05, 2008

Ishani gets her twin brother, 3 years later

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Her twin brother was in a refrigerator for three years. Ishani met him for the first time on Wednesday at a south Kolkata nursing home - thanks to a medical marvel.

Ishani and her 'embryological twin' Vinayak's births had been separated by three years, as their mother Rubai Choudhuri was not ready for twins three years ago. Both the babies were born with the help of Invitro Fertilisation (IVF), popularly known as the test tube process.

Thirty-four-year-old Rubai, an MCA, and 35-year-old Debayan Choudhuri, an IIT graduate, met Dr Siddhartha Chatterjee, a fertility physician at Repose fertility clinic in Kolkata, five years after their marriage. Dr Chatterjee suggested the IVF process for the couple.

In the IVF process, the ova and the sperms are fertilised in laboratory environment and is then implanted in the mother's womb.

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