Nguyen Thi Minh, 43, holds her nine-month-old son in her arms with the great happiness of a mother.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Government has issued a decree on in vitro fertilization techniques and surrogacy conditions for humanitarian purposes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – There are 700,000 to one million couples in the reproductive age are infertile, according to research conducted by the Central Obstetrics Hospital and the Hanoi Medical University.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though not yet legally recognized, surrogacy has become a special service in Vietnam. This story reveals more details about surrogate mothers and their clients.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though not yet legally recognized, surrogacy has become a special service in Vietnam.

The quintuplets in HCM City will be raised by the Kangaroo mother care technique, with the participation of up to 15 people. This is just one of the difficulties that the family of the quintuplets will have to face.

Out of each 100 couples, 8 are sterile. This is one of the reasons that makes Vietnam face a downward trend in childbirth in the near future, experts have warned.

In the past, most of the patients who needed infertility examinations at the HCM City-based Tu Du Hospital were at least 35 years old. Now, a lot of them are 18-20 and up to 35 percent of the patients are less than 35.