China's New Baby Boom
As China has given up is one-child policy and is allowing families to have a second child , more and more parents are using frozen embryos to fulfil this wish. In many cases women have to undergo fertility treatment to have another child.
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- at an advantage = here: they have better chances than others
- average = here: not too good and not too bad
- blessing = here: something that happens with the help of God
- conceive = when a woman becomes pregnant and expects a baby
- desperate = if you really want to have something
- embryo = an unborn baby
- fall back on = here: to use
- fertility treatment = you help a woman have a baby by giving her special chemicals
- fuss = excitement, attention
- gift = present
- immediately = at once
- imminent = very soon
- in-laws = the relatives you get when you marry
- miracle = wonder
- novelty = not usual, something new
- one child policy = the government says that a family is only allowed to have one child
- petridish = small flat plate, which scientists use for experiments
- policy = the way a country deals with a certain topic
- thrilled = excited, very happy
- ultrasound scan = you get a picture of something inside your body, by listening to sounds
- viable = here: if they can survive