A baby boy was born from a couple from Ohio from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years and reportedly set a new world record.
Lindsey, 35, and Tim Pierce, 34, welcomed their son, Thaddeus Daniel Pierce on Saturday. Mrs. Pierce told MIT Technology Review Her family thought “it’s like something from a sci-fi film”.
It is believed that it is the longest that an embryo is frozen before it results in a successful living birth. The previous record holder was A few twins born in 2022 from embryos frozen in 1992.
The Pierces had tried to have a child for seven years before they decided to adopt the embryo Linda Archerd, 62, with her then husband in 1994 via IVF.
At the time, Mrs. Archerded initially created four embryos. One becomes her now-30-year-old daughter, and the other three remained in storage.
Despite the divorce of her husband, she did not want to get rid of the embryos, donate for research or give them anonymous to another family.
She said it was important that she was involved in the baby because she would be related to her adult daughter.
Mrs. Archerd paid thousands of dollars a year for storage until she found a Christian embryo adoption agency, Nightlight Christian Adoptions, which runs a program known as Snowflakes. Many of these agencies consider their programs to save lives.
The program used by Mrs. Archerd enables donors to choose a few, which means that they can state religious, racial and nationality preferences.
The preference of Mrs. Archerd was for a married white, Christian couple who lived in the US because she did not “want to leave the country,” she told Mit Technology Review.
She eventually corresponded to the pierces.
The IVF clinic in Tennessee in which the couple underwent the procedure is delighted fertility, said that the goal was to transfer any embryo that received it, regardless of age or conditions.
Mrs. Pierce said she and her husband did not want to “break records”, but just “wanted to get a baby”.
Mrs. Archerd told Mit Technology Review that she had not yet met the baby personally, but that she could already see a resemblance to her daughter.
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