The oldest “baby” in the world was born in the United States of a frozen embryo in 1994, it was reported.
Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born on July 26 in the Ohio de Lindsey and Tim Pierce, using an “adopted” embryo by Linda Arche, 62, over 30 years ago.
In the early 1990s, Arch and her husband then decided to try in vitro fertilization (IVF) after having struggled to become pregnant. In 1994, four embryos resulted: one was transferred to Archerd and led to the birth of a girl, who is now 30 years old and from mother to a 10 -year -old child. The other embryos were cryoconse and stored.
“We did not go in the opportunity to think that we are breaking records,” Lindsey told The Mit Technology Review, who first reported the story. “We just wanted to have a baby.”
IVF is a type of fertility treatment where eggs are recovered from a woman’s ovaries and fertilized with laboratory sperm. The resulting embryos are then transferred to the uterus. Embryos can also be frozen and stored for future use.
Arche received custody of the embryos after divorced her husband. She then discovered “the adoption” of the embryo, a type of donation of embryos in which the donors and the recipients have a say in who receives the embryos.
Arch had a preference for his embryo to be “adopted” by a white married couple, leading to the adoption of the embryo.
“We had a brutal birth, but we are both going well now,” said Lindsey. “It is so cold. We are impressed that we have this precious baby.”
Arche said: “The first thing I noticed when Lindsey sent me his photos, it is how much he looks like my daughter when she was baby. I took out my baby book and compared them side by side, and there is no doubt that they are brothers and sisters.”
The fertility clinic that transferred the embryo is led by John Gordon, a reproductive endocrinologist and a reformed presbyterian who strives to reduce the number of storage embryos.
Speaking of the transfer of embryos, Gordon said: “We have certain guiding principles, and they come from our faith. Each embryo deserves a chance of life and that the only embryo who can only lead to a healthy baby is the embryo who has not had the possibility of being transferred to a patient.”
In the United Kingdom, the proportion of IVF births increased from 1.3% in 2000 to 3.1% in 2023, the equivalent of one in 32 births in the United Kingdom, approximately one child in each class.
For women aged 40 to 44, 11% of births in the United Kingdom were the result of IVF, against 4% in 2000, representing 0.5% of all births, according to human fertilization and the authority of Embryon (HFEA). In the United States, around 2% of births come from IVF.
