The first in vitro baby to have been conceived and born in the DR of a father with fertility problems, Silvia Marie Mota is doing well. She is the 13th in vitro child conceived in the DR. She was conceived under the care of the Centro de Fertilidad y Reproducción Humana (Cenfrhu), a fertility clinic property of Dr. Elías Rosario. She was born to an engineer mother and a military father who had spent 11 years trying to conceive. The father had problems with his sperm count. Baby Silvia was born 6 November at the Centro de Fertilidad of mother Jacqueline Rivas and father Genaro Mota. The nine-month baby weighed 6-3/4 lbs. at birth. She was born by C-section and is in perfect health. She went home on Monday.
