A family is continuing to grow 13 years after freezing some lucky embryos at an IVF clinic. Tanis Larson and her husband Dave Larson unsuccessfully tried to have a baby for two years — and in 2010, the Canadian pair ultimately elected to undergo an in vitro fertilization treatment, SWNS reported. Through that process, Tanis Larson wound up with 13 healthy embryos to start her family.
Because my husband and I were both in our 30s, we figured we'd better start the process sooner rather than later,' she recalled. On the first embryo transfer, Tanis Larson became pregnant. 'It was just an amazing feeling to find out we were pregnant,' she said, as SWNS reported. In August 2011, Tanis Larson became a mom to her firstborn son, Kai, in Calgary, Canada. After 13 months, the Larsons went back to the fertility clinic to have another embryo implanted.
We knew we had so many embryos, so we wanted to use them, and we wanted to have three children,' she recalled. After using two embryos for a better chance of implantation, the Larsons welcomed a baby boy named Cruz in January 2014. This cycle continued a year later when the Larsons did another embryo transfer — and became pregnant for a third time. Their son Clay was born in May 2016 — making all three pregnancies from the same batch of initial embryos.
Larson has received backlash online for having more children after giving birth to a child with Down's syndrome. Dr. Mickey Coffler, a board certified reproductive endocrinologist at HRC Fertility, told Fox News Digital that the chromosomal abnormality risk remains the same as it was when Larson was 31 years old and going through IVF treatment.