Deer Park couple first to have baby through egg freezing,

MELISSA WILSON
Health Reporter
DEER PARK, Texas - A couple from Deer Park is the first in Texas to deliver babies through a fertility treatment known as "egg freezing". This is a brand new option that doctors hope will help women undergoing cancer treatments and also women who just want to wait until later in life to have a baby.

Many couples dream of bringing a baby into the world. Christopher and Ivonne Pena sure did. Ivonne already had children from a previous marriage, but she and Christopher wanted a child of their own -- but she delivered two!

"It's a double the blessing," says Christopher.

After having problems getting pregnant, the Penas first looked into in-vitro fertilization. Then, they found out from Dr. Laurie McKenzie at Houston I-V-F, they could also help a lot of others by participating in a study. This is a new technique using new technology. Doctors have been able to freeze sperm and embryos for years but not oocytes, or eggs.

"This is a very new technique, simply because the egg is a very unique cell. This is the largest cell in the body and with traditional freezing techniques, there have been issues with ice crystals forming inside the cell which damages the cell and renders it unusable," explains Dr. McKenzie.

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