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Silicon Valley is on a quest to optimize babies.

This is baby Jaffe. Oh, my goodness. So what has the first couple of months been babies. This is baby Jaffe?

Oh, my goodness.

So what is the first couple of months been like?

This is from a promotional video for a company called Orchid Health.

It offers advanced genetic testing for embryos.

In the video, Mom Leah leans over a baby in a bouncy chair.

Leah describes how Orchid helped her and her husband create baby Jaffe.

They tested their embryos, talked to a genetic counselor.

We actually talked with one of the genetic counselors with Orchid.

We went online and looked at all the results and then selected an embryo

for implantation. So as you would, you want an embryo. But for us, the embryo test.

Lizzie Dwaskin is the post-Silicon Valley correspondent. She's been reporting on startups, like Orchid,

that are getting into the fertility game. Orchid Health is a company here in San Francisco that's part of this growing crop of

startups that are offering what I would call a brave new world of genetic predictions.

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