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Alice Yan

A woman in China who survived being pushed off a cliff in Thailand by her husband – and lost the three-month old baby she was carrying in the horror – is pregnant again.
The happy news has been warmly welcomed by people on mainland social media.
Wang Nuannuan, the alias she uses on the social media platform Douyin, was seriously injured when her husband pushed her off a 34-metre-high cliff at a Thai tourist spot in June 2019.
She suffered 17 bone fractures and had to have more than 100 steel pins inserted into her body, plus 200 stitches.

Wang endured multiple rounds of surgery and intensive rehabilitation before being able to stand and walk by herself last year.
On June 1, International Children’s Day, Wang released a video on Douyin to share the good news that she was expecting again, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald.
“I didn’t expect I could own a miracle again. I remember on the day my kid left me, my heart was empty,” she said.
“I understand those parents who spent their whole life searching for their kids after they went missing. So I will spare no efforts to bring back my baby.
“Five years have passed by – all those 1,882 days and nights. Dear baby, thank you for coming back to my side again. For next year’s Children’s Day, mum will hold your little hands and take you to see mountains and the sea and listen to birds singing. That will be so happy!” said Wang.
The video, which has attracted 700,000 likes, shows Wang devoutly burning joss sticks at a Buddhist temple.
When her followers asked her how she got pregnant, Wang replied it was via in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. It is not clear where this took place.
In China, medical institutions are not allowed to carry out this operation until couples show their marriage certificates and identity cards.
Her husband, Yu Xiaodong, was jailed for 33 years and four months by a Thai court in June last year after a third hearing of the case.
Wang filed for divorce last year. She said it took her a long time preparing documents that had to be collected from both Chinese and Thai authorities.

In an interview with news portal 163.com in September last year, Wang said she “dared not” find a boyfriend again and had “an instinct of fearing males” following her ordeal.
She said she would learn from Ye Haiyang, a Chinese online celebrity and a businesswoman, to be financially independent and to become a mother through IVF.
The news sent mainland social media into a congratulatory spin.
“I am in tears. You’ve borne too many hardships these years. No better news than your pregnancy!” said one online observer.
“Nuannuan and Ye Haiyang have opened a new gate for us females,” said another.


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She tells online followers she conceived through in vitro fertilisation, commonly known as IVF

She says she has ‘an instinct of fearing males’ following her ordeal 5 years ago