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snowflake baby en · NOUN

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1. (qualifier:reproductive medicine) A baby that is born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor.
   • The first snowflake baby was born in the late 1990s, but even with the President's public push, only a couple hundred snowflake children have been born in the United States during the past 10 years 2010, Lawrence S.B. Goldstein, Meg Schneider, Stem Cells For Dummies, page 272:
   • Brownback's presentation included a series of following the development of a child, the result of a discarded embryo, a so-called snowflake''' baby. 2009, Jason Holt (editor), The Daily Show and Philosophy - Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News, page 125:
   • Once Caroline and Jeffrey gave their consent--or Caroline gave it for them--the eleventh embryo could become the snowflake baby it was meant to be. 2007, Katherine Stone, Caroline's Journal, page 24:
   • It is possible to implant one of these embryos in the womb of a woman, letting her bear the child. This is called having a "snowflake" baby. 2012, Gene Edward Veith Jr., Mary J. Moerbe, Family Vocation - God's Calling in Marriage, Parenting, and Childhood, page 114:

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