I'm happy for this JW couple, but here is my question. JW's believe that it is wrong to store blood because of the scriptural command to 'pour it upon the ground'. This, it is said, is because blood represents life which is sacred.
Surely in an even more obvious and intimate way, a womans eggs represent life. Why then have the watchtower made no comment on the appropriateness for Christians in deciding whether or not to freeze and store eggs?
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Father of 'frozen egg' baby overjoyed
The father of the first baby to be born in the UK through a revolutionary fertility technique using a frozen egg from the mother says the family is "overjoyed" by the method's success.
Lee and Helen Perry, from Ludlow, Shropshire, are now the proud parents of four-month-old Emily after undergoing nine months of treatment.
Mr Perry, 37, said it was "just fantastic to be a dad" and expressed gratitude to the clinic which helped make the couple's dreams of parenthood come true.
"We are absolutely overjoyed. We had waited so long for a baby and for us the be the family we are today is just unbelievable," he said.
"The treatment took probably the best part of nine months from start to finish. It was difficult for us both but especially for my wife, but it was worth it to be where we are now."
Mr Perry and his 36-year-old wife had been trying for a baby for 10 years before they started the treatment, at the Midlands Fertility Services clinic near Walsall.
The couple decided to use the technique using a frozen egg rather than the normal treatment, which involves freezing fertilised embryos, because they are Jehovah Witnesses.
"We believe for religious reasons that life starts from conception so we were not prepared to destroy what would be a life in that way," Mr Perry said.
Fertility specialist Dr Gillian Lockwood, whose team made the breakthrough said: "We developed the treatment to try to help young cancer patients, who often lose their fertility as a result of the chemotherapy that saves their lives."
Dr Lockwood said Mr and Mrs Perry were the first couple in Britain to have a child using the mother's own frozen and then thawed eggs.