snowflake baby

plural snowflake babies

1. reproductive medicinemedicineA 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.

   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

   3 more examples

   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

   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

   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