TV CHOSUN’s first domestic birth broadcast variety show ‘Our Baby Was Born’ ended its pilot season amid much buzz by sharing the story of a ‘super mom’ who chose the path of ‘voluntary single motherhood’ and the tense birth of ‘double twins’ with Park Soo-hong and Yang Se-hyung.

On the 20th, on ‘Our Baby Was Born(directed by Lee Seung-hoon and Kim Jun/written by Jang Joo-yeon),’ ‘Soonpoong Duo’ Park Soo-hong and Yang Se-hyung met an internist who was a ‘voluntary single mother’ who had her second pregnancy through sperm donation.A ‘voluntary single mother’ is someone who is not married, has not experienced an unavoidable situation such as bereavement or divorce, and has decided to become a ‘mother’ by her own decision.The ‘voluntary single mother’ mother said, “I thought to myself, ‘I absolutely have to have a baby ‘in my life, but I’m in my early 30s now.I thought about ‘sperm donation’ because the time I had to go through the process of getting married and having a baby and the time given to me was so uncertain.”

Yang Se-hyung thought of Sayuri, who became a ‘mother’ through sperm donation in Japan.The ‘voluntary single mother’ also revealed that she received sperm donation in Denmark, which has the world’s largest sperm bank, because it was difficult for her to donate sperm in Korea.Although she could have chosen sperm based on various criteria such as the donor’s height, weight, race, hair color, and personality, the mother said, “I thought it would be okay if the baby was my baby rather than making it into the perfect human being I wanted, and I looked for ‘empathy’ in the hope that it would be a warm child who would give up the living room to her friends when they came over.” That’s how the mother gave birth to her first child, and with the thought that “I want my child to have many siblings,” she became pregnant with her second child through sperm donation.

‘Dad Wanna Be’ Yang Se-hyung asked, “They say it’s hard even when a couple raises a child together, but wasn’t it hard when you got pregnant and gave birth alone?” The mother replied, “Since my default is ‘alone,’ I thought it might be hard to just raise a child.And the joy of raising a baby is much greater,” conveying that she is spending her days happily.The mother also added, “The first IVF treatment was in 1978.At the time, it was a huge challenge for both parents and doctors, and it was surrounded by ethical controversy, but now many children are born through IVF.If unmarried mothers become more common, I think our children will have an easier life later on.I want to give hope and send a good message to the various types of families that are lumped together as ‘single-parent families.’”

On this day, a mother with a natural pregnancy of ‘double twins’, which is said to be rarer than triplets, appeared.’Double twins’ are a situation where one gets pregnant with twins and then gives birth to twins again in succession.The mother of ‘double twins’, who got pregnant with twins in succession through natural pregnancy, experienced premature birth when she was pregnant with her first twins.Both babies had to be in the neonatal intensive care unit for three weeks.The mother, who suffered from trauma due to the situation at the time, overcame several crises and endured until the 35th week.However, the babies were ‘transverse’, lying sideways, and adhesions from the cesarean section during her first birth were expected to make for a difficult birth.The mother said, “I feel like I’m going to bungee jump every day for a month before giving birth,” expressing her nervousness.

As the cesarean section began, the mother’s blood pressure began to drop as the babies in her stomach pressed on her vena cava.The medical team hurried the delivery to save both the mother and the babies ‘lives.In the meantime, the mother was even more nervous because of the scary memory of her first twin birth when her babies didn’ t breathe.However, her worries were in vain as both babies came out crying loudly.Only then did the mother feel relieved and smile with tears in her eyes.The father of the children also met the twins outside the operating room and enjoyed the excitement of their birth.However, the mother in the operating room did not think of coming out after that, and Park Soo-hong worried, saying, “Can it really be this long?” The father of the ‘double twins’ felt sorry and anxious, saying, “The mother is in danger, but I only worried about the babies and focused on them.”

Soon, the medical team came out and reported the situation, saying, “During the surgery, the mother’s bladder was torn due to adhesions, so we urgently called the urology team to suture it, which delayed the surgery time.” Fortunately, no bleeding or other dangerous situations occurred, so everyone was relieved.Afterwards, the mother returned to the hospital room and cried, “It hurts,” in pain, but she was curious about the babies she had just born.Even in the midst of her pain, the mother smiled happily while looking at the pictures of her babies, which was touching.

‘Our Baby Was Born’, which has been conveying the joy and emotion of the birth of a new life, finished its pilot broadcast on the 20th.

Reporter Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com jhj@donga.com

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