‘I’m an adult IVF baby and I want to implant myself with my own twin embryos’
“It really messes with my brain that some random scientist guy chose which order we should be born in,” Michel confesses in the video.
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Have you ever considered what it would feel like to be an IVF baby?
Michel Janse, a 26-year-old from Texas, shared her thoughts on being born via IVF and how it has impacted her life.
“I am an IVF baby, and so is my sister,” she began in the TikTok video.
Her sister, Jacqueline, was born three years after Michel but came from the “same batch” of fertilised eggs.
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“My birth was literally up to some random scientist guy…”
While she and her sister were conceived at the same time, Michel’s egg was chosen first by the IVF specialists.
Her sister’s egg was then frozen for another three years.
“We jokingly call each other ‘twins’ because we were conceived at the same time,” she added.
Despite the cute nicknames she and her sister have for each other, Michel confessed the thought of a “random scientist guy” choosing the order in which the eggs should be implanted “messes with [her] brain.”
“It was literally up to one random dude,” she said. “He could have picked Jacqueline to be implanted first … and I could have been the little sister who is 23 right now.”
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“It’s always been my desire to give birth to one of my twin embryos”
She then revealed her parents still had some embryos at the lab, “alive and frozen”, meaning they could use them if they wanted.
“You could donate them,” she said. “...but who would want nearly 30-year-old embryos?”
Then she confessed it has “always been [her] desire” to “go through the implant process” and “give birth to one of [her] twin embryos.”
As she continued applying makeup, she explained she would love to know, “especially if it was a boy”, what it would be like to have a male sibling just like her.
“I’m just so curious,” she ended. “Will I do it? Probably not. But am I so tempted? Yes!”
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“That doesn’t seem ethical … interesting to ponder, though!”
The video has amassed 8.8 million views, with many pointing out how unusual it must be to be an IVF baby.
“OMG I never thought about how IVF babies feel now,” wrote one person. “That is so trippy to think about!” read another comment.
Others pointed out the likelihood of her being chosen as the first egg. “You could still be in the freezer,” a woman commented. “It’s so interesting.”
Some were a little less than impressed by her “desire” to give birth to her own twin embryo.
“This is very bizarre,” someone commented. “What a strange desire,” added another.
“I don't think any IVF clinic would allow you to implant your mother's embryos, but it's cool to think about!” said another.
“That doesn’t seem ethical… Interesting to ponder, though!” someone wrote.
But others had a different perspective. “Your parents have been paying to keep them frozen this long?” one woman wrote. “It’s so expensive to keep them frozen.”
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