Healthy baby girl named 'Eshkar,' meaning 'gift'
She has named her new daughter Eshkar, a word from the Bible that means gift.
The 46-year-old woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Tzvia, froze her ovary when she had cancer in her mid-20s.
At that time, the idea of transplanting a healthy ovary back into a woman after she recovered from cancer was just theoretical. In 2016, a woman in Dubai became the first to give birth to a baby after having her ovary retransplanted, and since then there have been hundreds more pregnancies worldwide — though none came after an ovary was frozen for two whole decades.
“She conceived spontaneously at age 45, and she now has a baby girl thanks to pieces of her ovary that were in liquid nitrogen for two decades,” her gynecologist, Prof. Ariel Revel, told The Times of Israel.