The little girl was born at the Nantes University Hospital, where her mothers had been followed by the medically assisted procreation center.
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While he was still Minister of Health, Olivier Véran said “possible” that the first legal births of children from couples of women intervene before the end of the first five -year term of Emmanuel Macron. The premonition was barely too optimistic. The revision of the bioethics law, which allowed lesbian couples, as well as single women, to use medically assisted procreation techniques (PMA), hitherto reserved for heterosexual couples considered infertile, was adopted on 2 August 2021. And it was ultimately a little more than a year later, on August 27, that the first baby “PMA for all” was born, according to our information.
zola, 3,550 kilos and 50.5 centimeters, was born at the Nantes University Hospital, where his mothers had been followed by the center of PMA and where one of them had received the donation of sperm having allowed the pregnancy. “We were among the first to start the activity after the adoption of the law, and the care of new audiences was a priority,” explains Doctor Thomas Fréour, head of the medical aid service for procreation of the hospital. “This explains that the first birth of this type, unless I am mistaken, took place with us,” he rejoices, after questioning his colleagues from the main PMA centers.
Shared pride without surprise by the mothers of the child, Cindy and myrtille Meslet-Héricourt. The couple of Nantes thirties, respectively an executive in the social and sports educator, had started a PMA course in Spain in 2018, which had resulted in six unsuccessful inseminations.
“A particular resonance”
They had agreed that it was Cindy, 38, who would carry their child. And, like most women taken care of for PMA abroad, its medical follow -up (blood assessments, ovarian stimulation, etc.) was carried out in France, by the Nantes CHU teams. As soon as the Bioethics Law was voted, “we were therefore priority,” explains Myrtille. Luckily, “it was enough from a single in vitro fertilization” to cause pregnancy. After four years of waiting, and two weeks ahead of the term, their little Zola therefore came to the world at the end of the summer, “in good health”.
Forty years after the birth of Amandine, the first baby-éprévette of French nationality, that of Zola also takes on a symbolic significance for the defenders of the PMA for all. For Doctor Fréour, she necessarily has “a particular resonance”. First “because it shows that the revision of the bioethics law finally rebalances things for women who had to go abroad”. But also, “for my team, after a not simple year, which has asked everyone a lot of energy, it is important to know that it produces happy events”, he notes.
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