World's Oldest Babies: Twins Born From 30-Year-Old Embryoss
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In 2022, Test-tube babies or babies born using other medical procedures apart from the natural sexual method is very common. But now, breaking all the previous records, an Oregon, USA based US couple has welcomed twins from embryos that were frozen in April 1992, approximately 30 years ago..
The previously known record holder was Molly Gibson, born in 2020 from an embryo that had been frozen for nearly 27 years. The Oregon twins, who are being called as the "world's oldest babies'', were born on 31st October, 2022, to Rachel Ridgeway and Philip Ridgeway. The country's National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) says the twins, named Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway, are the longest-frozen embryos to result in a live birth. While baby girl Lydia was born at 2.5kg, baby boy Timothy was born at 2.92kg.
The babies were a result of embryo donation, usually from parents who have extra embryos after successfully having babies via in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Thirty years back, an anonymous donor couple, who had used in vitro fertilisation, donated the embryos, which were preserved at -200 degrees. The embryos were frozen on 22nd April, 1992, and remained in cold storage at a West Coast fertility lab until 2007, when the couple donated them to the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC). Fifteen years later, the frozen embryos led to the birth of Lydia and Timothy. The Ridgeways, who already have four other children, aged 8, 6, 3 and almost 2, decided to have more kids by using donated embryos. When they were looking for donors, the couple specifically looked in a category called “special consideration," which means embryos for whom it had been difficult to find recipients. The couple said that they weren't looking to get the embryos that have been frozen the longest in the world. They just wanted the ones that had been waiting for the longest. There is something mind-boggling about it. In a sense, they're our oldest children, even though they're our smallest children."
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