Actor Lee Ji-hoon and his wife Ayane shared an update on their second in vitro fertilization attempt.
On the 5th, a video titled "Mom! Dad! Please make me a younger sibling!!" was uploaded to the "Lee Ji-hoon Ayane's Jia Life" channel.
That day Ayane said, "I came for a blood test today. I've been having sleepless days. Maybe because I'm pregnant, I feel my immunity is a bit lowered. I really don't catch colds. I get sick maybe once or twice a year at most, but lately seeing my condition go down I can't tell if it's from hormones or the pregnancy; it's been really hard. The results will come by phone in the afternoon, so I'll keep my composure until then and take the call," and she shared that she had completed embryo transfer. In IVF procedures, whether implantation has occurred can be determined by a blood test after embryo transfer.
After finishing the blood test and returning home, Ayane ate ramen that Lee Ji-hoon had cooked. She complained, "With a first child like this, for example, being told to lie down or not lift heavy things just can't be followed. Ru-hee is 10kg but I'm always holding her. With the first child I rested when I wanted and did things when I felt okay. But when it's hard for me is when I'm feeding Ru-hee. The smell of Ru-hee's food..."
Lee Ji-hoon said, "Then it's definitely morning sickness. Don't you get morning sickness just from the smell of rice from the rice cooker?" as a positive sign, and Ayane said, "I'm thankfully on the milder side, but it feels like constant seasickness. It happened before too. I keep feeling pressure here. And sometimes it comes up." Lee Ji-hoon said, "Back then I ate a lot of jelly. It was for morning sickness. This time I told her to eat jelly but there was none. It was ramen," and Ayane admitted, "It changes every day."
Ayane asked, "Are you prepared to be the father of two children?" and Lee Ji-hoon joked, "What kind of preparation is needed? You just do it. My resolve started when I met you." Asked if he hoped the second child would be a daughter, he said, "I don't care about that, honestly," but added, "But it would be nicer if it were a daughter. Raising sisters together and them getting along—that picture is the prettiest," revealing his desire.
Ayane continued, "When we did the thawing for the transfer, we thawed four and decided to transfer the embryo in the best condition, and two turned out to be normal. Two were abnormal and were embryos that couldn't be transferred, and two were normal embryos that could be transferred. Both for the first and second times, I never considered twins because I thought if I got pregnant with twins the baby growing in the womb could be at risk, so I didn't think about twins at all. But since two normal embryos came out, they asked, 'Would you like to discard one?' and how could I decide on the life and death of these embryos on my own and readily say 'Please discard it,'" she said.
He said, "I told the professor I didn't want twins, but even so when two normal ones came out I said we'd transfer two. If something went wrong, then that's the fate of that friend. But discarding felt wrong, so actually we put in two. It seems I did the right thing. If I had discarded one, I think I would have kept thinking about it. I didn't know that with the first child. My concept of a baby or of life wasn't mature. After having Ru-hee, I chose that embryo and Ru-hee came out of it. Now that the embryo grew into a baby in my womb, I feel emotions I couldn't before. Even if I died giving birth to this baby, I don't think I would regret it as long as the baby is delivered safely. Raising a baby seems to change the way you look at children," he said, expressing changed thinking.
But when someone said, "If you have three children it's even more so," he replied, "Stop it. I don't know what will happen to me," and showed deep affection by saying, "I actually thought one was enough. Ru-hee is so beautiful that I thought my life was complete with just Ru-hee, but I thought that for Ru-hee I needed a family with shared blood."
Meanwhile, Lee Ji-hoon married 14-years-younger Japanese Ayane Miura in 2021 and welcomed their first daughter Ru-hee via IVF in July last year. They are currently preparing another IVF procedure for a second child.
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