A 39-year-old woman in Argentina has gone against the advice of her doctors as she becomes the very first heart transplant patient ever to give birth after invitro fertilization (IVF) treatment. Doctors had warned Juliana Finondo not to go ahead as it may stress her heart but she brushed aside the professional medical advice. #That'sALotOfGuts!

She was a childless woman as at the time she had the heart transplant in 1999. Classified as a high-risk pregnancy, she gave birth to a bouncing baby girl at a special obstetric centre in Buenos Aires, the Argentinian capital (do we have a similar facility in Nigeria? Don't tell me National Hospital o!)

Since pregnancy means a woman will have about 40% more blood, that would mean more work for the heart, which does the pumping round the body. She was warned so as not to put extra work on the heart. Doctors feared the foetus would not get adequate blood if the womb (uterus) does not get enough blood supply. Well, she damned the consequences and went ahead (never underestimate the determination of an Iyaniwura). Her case is the first in which a transplant patient would go through IVF and then give birth.

Alongside her husband, Gerardo Tuya, they were determined to have a child. She says to AFP: 'I was never afraid. Maybe I'm too optimistic.' Well, it always pays to be optimistic.

She tried getting pregnant in 2009 but by 2011, there was no positive result, as in kogbo pa, kogbo po. Then she decided to go for the assisted reproductive technology as it happened, she got pregnant after the very first round of IVF. She was monitored for nine months and gave birth to her daughter on the 15th of January. Take a minute to check out her smile! Would you donate your organ to help someone out? Think about that.

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