“The White Orchid Day”

An open letter to the members of ESHRE From GENESIS DNEPR IVF Clinic

Dear colleagues!

We are writing to you with an appeal to establish an international day for IVF babies to be celebrated in spring, on the first Sunday of April, and name it “The White Orchid Day”.

Let us outline the reasons for our initiative.

Genesis Dnepr IVF Clinic of Reproductive Medicine was founded in 2001 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. The total number of IVF children born in our clinic reaches the figure of 700. When the first twin girls were born, their parents presented all the doctors with white orchids. It appeared to be a miraculous coincidence, due to the fact that the orchid is the only flower cultivated with the help of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. It inspired us to commence celebrating the international day for IVF babies, named “The White Orchid Day”.

It is well known that meetings with children and their parents are widely spread among IVF clinics on different days. Great Britain celebrates the birthday of Louise Brown, the first IVF baby. We offer to unite these international efforts on one special day in spring, when the nature is awakening from winter, and call it “The White Orchid Day”, where the white colour symbolizes faith and the beginning of life.

We hope that this holiday will help many families in the search for their own Little Orchid.

Yours sincerely,
Dr. I. Perelygin,
Founder of Genesis Dnepr IVF Clinic

This is a Poetic Version of “The White Orchid Day” to explain IVF Babies the mystery of their birth. Let me tell you a fairy tale, My Baby! The tale is about the most magnificent of all flowers - “The White Orchid.” Once upon a time there lived a Magician. He was a real wizard with sky-blue eyes and caring hands. He loved and adored flowers, and cherished white orchids as the most sacred flower of them all. He could spend hours talking to them and about them. “Flowers are not alive”, - you may exclaim, but you are mistaken. Keep in mind that all flowers are alive. They can breathe, grow, and feel. They come in different hues and have various levels of sensitivity. Anyway, back to the Fairy Tale. The Magician could work miracles. He was able to get water from stone, and turn sand into gold, but he preferred planting white orchids to any other wonder in the world... To read the fairy tale

"GENESIS DNEPR IVF"
Reproductive medicine clinic

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