講座名稱

?生 ?? 育：探索失胎後的成家路

在生育路上遇到困難的夫婦，組成家庭的路途充滿挑戰與不確定，是繼續自然受孕還是領養別人的孩子？若選擇領養，血緣關係會否障礙我和孩子的相處？我還能成功受孕嗎？本次「生 ? 育：探索失胎後的成家路系列講座」將透過分享本地領養程序和心路歷程，以及失胎後再次備孕的注意事項，幫助夫婦獲取相關的資訊，以選擇最合適自己的成家之路。

講者：

1. 領養：生育以外的成家之路

葉盈章女士（Vivian）

Vivian 生於香港，曾於加拿大居住數年。在她還是青年人的時候，已參加非牟利機構的義工服務，幫助未婚懷孕婦女及她們的孩子，其後更加入該機構作領養社工，後來升為單位主任。過去23年來，她一直致力於領養服務 — 從協助領養家庭渡過高低難關，到陪伴被領養者尋找過去身份，甚或為領養課題進行倡導工作。

Vivian 在有關兒童、領養、親職、尋根和依附關係的範疇有豐富的經驗和知識。她積極幫助和培育兒童及家庭，為他們提供敏感、合乎道德和關鍵的資訊。Vivian 和她的工作夥伴爭取每個機會，騰出時間並致力研究，為香港及中國的兒童、家長及專業人士提供必須的生活及家庭教育，包括性教育。

林生林太（KK & Winnie）

KK 和Winnie 已結婚了15年，生活幸福。他們婚後已隨即展開生小朋友的計劃，但嘗試八年卻未能如願成為父母。機緣巧合下，他們認識了領養，經過深思熟慮下，決定透過領養，圓滿他們的家庭。於2015年，KK和Winnie經社會福利署申請領養，經過嚴謹的審查及程序，終於成功配對當時兩個月大的兒子。令人驚訝的是，兒子回家三年後，Winnie終成功地懷孕。他們是一個透過領養及生育組成的混合家庭。兩年前，Winnie接任樂兒會主席一職，連繫領養家庭，建立互相扶持及分享的小社區，與領養家庭並肩同行。

1. 失胎後，如何準備下次懷孕

梁德楊教授

梁德楊教授是香港中文大學醫學院助理院長 (內地事務)和婦產科學系教授，也是胎兒醫學團隊的負責人。

1992年，梁教授以優異成績畢業於香港中文大學，並開始於香港的威爾斯親王醫院接受婦產科專科培訓（1993-1999）和母嬰醫學專科培訓（1999-2002）。他於2007年晉升為同一部門的顧問醫生，於2009年12月加入香港中文大學擔任臨床教授。

在2018年, 醫學院邀請梁教授擔任助理院長 (內地事務)一職。

梁教授的研究興趣和專業知識集中於胎兒異常的產前篩查、診斷和治療、雙胞胎懷孕、早產、胎兒生長受限和產科急救。他已在國際同行評審期刊上發表了370多篇論文，目前的H指數為50。他以母親體內循環的無細胞胎兒DNA非侵入性產前診斷、利用染色體微陣列和目前全基因組序列進行產前基因診斷、胎兒外科治療、體外頭位轉移術和肩難產等方面的研究著名。

自2005年以來，他一直帶領亞太母胎醫學大會和亞太胎兒治療大會（2016年起），這些均為備受關註的區域性產科學術平台。此外，他還開設了多個有關胎兒超聲波、基因診斷和產科急救的培訓課程，值得留意的是，梁教授亦與美國貝勒醫學院合作，於亞洲開設的醫學遺傳學碩士課程。梁教授現被中國教育部任命為“長江學者”。2023年, 梁教授帶領中大婦產科團隊, 與家計會獲香港賽馬會慈善信託基金捐助，合作開展賽馬會「高危配偶遺傳病基因篩查」計劃, 為高風險的伴侶提供遺傳諮詢輔導及基因篩查檢測。

陳凱欣博士

香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系副教授

有關計劃

賽馬會「小足．福」失胎支援計劃，由香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系、香港基督教女青年會家庭健康促進中心及香港明愛恩遇 – 明愛失胎支援中心聯合舉辦，並獲香港賽馬會慈善信託基金捐助。計劃的願景是建立一個無縫和整合的支援，讓經歷自然流產的父母由醫院到社區，線上及線下，均護得全人的心理及社交協助，渡過失胎的哀傷。

捐助機構：香港賽馬會慈善信託基金

Event Name

Parenthood Pathways: Navigating Pregnancy and Adoption

For couples encountering difficulties in conceiving, their journey of building a family is full of challenges and uncertainties. Should they continue trying natural conception or explore other options to become parents? The event ” Parenthood Pathways: Navigating Pregnancy and Adoption” Series will share the adoption procedure and personal experiences by adoptive parents, while tips on preparing pregnancy after miscarriage or stillbirth will also be addressed. This is to enhance participants understanding about different pathways for reaching parenthood, and to make well informed choice for their family formation.

About the Speaker:

?Session One: Adoption as an Alternative Path

Ms. Vivian Ip

Vivian’s background spans between Hong Kong and Canada. During her teenage years, she volunteered for a non-profit organization that caters to pregnant girls in crisis pregnancies and children in need of temporary or permanent care. She grew her career within this organization, starting as an adoption social worker and then promoted to supervisor. For the last 23 years, her focus has been on adoption services, where she has supported adoptive families through difficult times and assisted adoptees and their families in tracing their roots. Vivian’s expertise lies in matters concerning children, adoption, parenting, root-tracing, bonding, and attachment, and she is passionate about providing sensitive, moral, and essential information to nurture children and families. Together with her work partners, they seize every opportunity to offer time and research to provide necessary life and family education, including sex education, to children, parents, and professionals across Hong Kong and China.

KK & Winnie Lam

KK and Winnie have been happily married for 15 years.? During the first 8 years of their marriage, they faced the painful hardship of infertility.? Having thoroughly considered other family formation alternatives, they decided to build their family through adoption.? In 2015, they spent months working on the multiple-page adoption application; were assessed by social workers of the Social Welfare Department and were finally matched to their son when he was 2 months old.? To their surprise, Winnie conceived 3 years after their son arrived home.? They are now a blended family – a family through adoption and birth.? As a way to share love and gratitude with the adoption community, Winnie began to volunteer as the Chairlady of Happy Parents’ Association two years ago and has been walking alongside many adoptive families since.

Session Two: Preparing for Pregnancy after Miscarriage

Professor Tak Yeung LEUNG

Professor Tak Yeung LEUNG is Assistant Dean (Mainland Affairs) of Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine), the Professor of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as the Head of Fetal Medicine Team.

After graduated from CUHK in 1992 with distinction in O&G, Professor Leung started his O&G specialty training (1993-1999) and then maternal fetal medicine subspecialty training (1999-2002) in Prince of Wales Hospital (Hong Kong). He was promoted to Consultant in the same unit in 2007, and then joined CUHK as clinical professor in Dec 2009. He was invited to be Assistant Dean (Mainland Affairs) of Faculty of Medicine (CU Medicine) in 2018.

Professor Leung’s research interests and professional expertise are in prenatal screening, diagnosis and therapy of fetal abnormalities, twin pregnancy, preterm delivery, fetal growth restriction, and emergency obstetrics. He has published more than 370 papers in international peer reviewed journals, and his current H-index is 51. He is most well known for his work in maternal circulating cell-free fetal DNA for non-invasive prenatal diagnosis, prenatal genetic diagnosis using chromosomal microarray and now whole genome sequencing, fetal surgical therapy, external cephalic version and shoulder dystocia.

He has been leading the annual Asian Pacific Congress in Maternal Fetal Medicine since 2005, and Asian Pacific Congress in fetal therapy since 2016, which have become the most popular regional academic platforms for Obstetricians. In addition, he also runs multiple training courses on fetal ultrasound, genetic diagnosis and obstetric emergency. In particular, he collaborates with Baylor College of Medicine of USA in running a Master of Science course in Medical Genetics in Asia. Professor Leung was appointed as the “Changjiang Scholar” by the Ministry of Education of China. Meanwhile, Prof Leung leads CUOG with FPAHK to?launch the?Jockey Club Genetic Carrier Screening Programme for High Risk Couples in 2023, which is funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust and will provide genetic counselling and genetic screening tests for couples at high risk of carrying genetic diseases, offering them early support.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Celia Hoi-yan Chan

Associate Professor

Department of Social Work and Social Administration

The University of Hong Kong

About the Project

Jockey Club Perinatal Bereavement Care Project is jointly collaborated by the Department of Social Work and Social Administration of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Young Women’s Christian Association Family Wellness Centre and Caritas-Hong Kong Grace Port-Caritas Miscarriage Support Centre. The project is funded by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, this envisions to develop a seamless integrated care for the bereaved couples from hospitals to the community with online and in-person support, aims to render holistic psychosocial support for bereaved couples to go through the grief over pregnancy loss.

Funded by: The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust