“Mother’s Heart-Stopping Discovery: Could Missing Girl Be the Key to an IVF Mystery?”
It all started on August 13 when Wang, a Shanghai resident, received a video from a friend. The clip featured a blogger who had found a little girl lost at the railway station and was trying to help reunite her with her parents.
Wang’s friend noticed the uncanny resemblance between the girl, now aged two-and-a-half, and her own daughter.
“My friend asked if I had lost my child. It completely stunned me,” she told Chinese Business View, as quoted by the South China Morning Post.
The mother, too, found it strange that the child bore an uncanny resemblance to her daughter.
A mother in China, surnamed Wang, was shaken after seeing a video of a lost girl who bore a striking resemblance to her own daughter
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For Wang, who had her daughter through in vitro fertilization (IVF), the resemblance triggered more than concern.
She had spent about 70,000 yuan (US$9,800) to 80,000 yuan on the procedures. This included multiple egg retrievals and embryo implantation.
When her daughter was born in 2018, the hospital had stored additional embryos in case she wanted to expand her family.
Hence, seeing the lost girl raised unsettling doubts about whether there may have been a mix-up with her embryos in the hospital. She wondered whether the lost girl was somehow connected to her through a medical mistake or even misuse.
The little girl in the video, now two and a half, was found at a railway station by a blogger, prompting the mother’s friend to ask if she had lost her child
中国で行方不明の少女が自分の試験管内で生まれた娘に不気味なほど似ており
主張する中国の母親は、保管されていた受精卵が悪用されたのではないかと疑っている pic.twitter.com/zOV38PGzTq
