Prominent professors say procedure found to have complications, including harm to baby, bladder and uterus; agree that until studies show different results, technique use should be halted
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Mar. 6, 2021
Mothers who fell pregnant in 2019 could never have conceived of the world their babies would be born into. The highs and lows of parenthood took on new challenges as the coronavirus swept the world and maternity leave was spent largely between four walls.
Dani Lapidot Cohen came into the world at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital on March 13 last year – just as Israel was moving into its first nationwide lockdown. No visitors were allowed at the hospital and it would be over two months until her grandparents would finally meet her.
“When we got to Ichilov, everything was open,” Dani’s mother Naama, 35, tells Haaretz over an evening Zoom call during the third lockdown. “We came out to a different world – everything was closed.”