With
the advancement of technology, ectogenesis gives rise to produce a baby out of
the womb or an artificial womb
baby born. In other words, it is the gestation outside of a
biological womb. It seems like a science fiction. It appeared an impressive
glimpse at what the future baby could look like. Ectogenesis will completely
change the reproduction of humans. It is the best method to enhance the
fertility option and developing premature baby.
Being
pregnant and giving the birth to a baby is very risky to mother’s health. But
according to the research in April 2017 fetal specialist at the Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia successfully design an artificial womb. Alan Flake
develop a bio-bag work as external womb where uterus like environment created
and this system is called extra-uterine support device (EUSD) or Ex-Vivo
uterine Environment (EVE). This device is also known as an artificial placenta
due to providing oxygen and nutrient-rich blood to the lamp through the
umbilical vein. And through the umbilical artery, it gets blood full of waste
products. It helps to improve the survival rate of premature babies.
Researchers choose the baby lamp ( equivalent to the human foetus 22-24 weeks)
to grow. The bio-bag is a translucent plastic bag which encloses the fetal lamp
and like a biological uterus, this bio-bag also protects it from the external
environment. An electrolyte solution is provided as like an amniotic fluid of a
biological uterus. Through these specific conditions, the lamp grows
successfully.
Premature
babies can also lead to death. There are many babies who die before reaching 37
weeks of pregnancy. Babies who require immediate ventilation and medications
and intensive care unit they suffer only on a host of health conditions. After
supporting the baby lamp researchers works on EUSD by conducting clinical
trials to ready for humans to improve the survival rates and it takes next two
to four years. EUSD is the neonatal life support device.
Scientists
of Cambridge University also works on human and kept alive human’s baby outside
the womb for about thirteen days. Embryo survives for 13 days and after this,
they stopped because they have only fourteen days legal limit and the embryo
can be kept in the lab. With the advancement of technology still, researchers are
work on it so that the ectogenesis or baby born in the artificial womb would
change the world. Now the recent invention is the baby pouch that would changes
society.
There
are several benefits of medical devices such as it is helpful to those parents
in which infertility is the major problem, helpful to trans people to provide
fertility option, save the lives of premature babies. It offers the safe and
traditional pregnancy through the healthier environment in this modern century.
It prevents the risk of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs, it only provides ideal
conditions such as temperature, nutrients, and sound to the baby. Once it would
be successful for human’s babies in upcoming years then it would also depend
upon the society that how it can change by ectogenesis. There are many
questions that what rights would be given to then baby developed in the
external environment. But there would be also a risk to the baby in growing the
external womb.
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