Freezing her eggs allowed this Dublin woman to become a mother at 42

Helen O’Callaghan speaks to a delighted Dublin woman who, at the age of 42, gave birth to the first baby born through egg-freezing in an Irish clinic

WHEN it came to having a baby, she knew the odds were stacked against her — yet this summer a 42-year-old Dublin childminder gave birth to the first live healthy baby born through egg-freezing in an Irish clinic.

But the Tallaght woman’s joy at the birth of her daughter in late July came at the end of a tough struggle to conceive. Ann* first approached ReproMed Ireland Fertility Clinic when she was 36. “I was single and I wanted kids. Time was ticking,” she says.