As part of a wider effort to boost the city’s dire birth rate, the Hong Kong government has rolled out measures to help older women give birth, including allowing them to store embryos for as long as they want and offering tax reductions for those who undergo IVF treatment.
The median age for new mothers in Hong Kong has grown from 24.4 years in 1976 to 32.8 years in 2024.
Chan and Wong said they decided to have a second child because their elder daughter, born in 2019 when Chan was 52, wanted a sibling to keep her company.
Chan had gestational eczema, a skin condition that can occur during pregnancy, as well as relatively high blood pressure, while carrying her first child, and also experienced pre-eclampsia at delivery.
For her second child, Chan underwent IVF treatment in Taiwan after experiencing a miscarriage last year.
The couple spent around HK$200,000 (US$25,700), which included daily injections into her abdomen.
Source: CNA
