A woman has given birth to a “miracle” boy after his twin sister died as a fetus at 17 weeks, doctors said on Wednesday.
Doctors at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital told a news conference that the boy, now three months old, weighed 1.16kg at birth — 84 days after his mother miscarried his sibling — and 4.3kg at his most recent checkup.
The hospital’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology treated a 37-year-old woman surnamed Liu (柳) several months ago, the doctors said.
Department deputy head Tsai Ching-chang (蔡慶璋) said that Liu had undergone six years of fertility treatment before becoming pregnant with