how old does a child have to be before starting saviour sibling treatment
Britain's first saviour sibling was born in June 2003 to a couple who were desperate to cure their young son of a rare form of anaemia. Jamie Whitaker was genetically matched as an IVF embryo to his brother Charlie, who was four years old at the time. didn't know that I would be able to cope with another ill child, and the first 12 weeks of the pregnancy, until tests showed that she didn't have it, were the worst of my life.