An American couple had twins whose embryos were frozen and had been conceived 30 years ago, in 1992, US media reported Monday.
For the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), these will be the oldest embryos that will be used successfully, although there is no official global data to support this information.
The mother, Rachel Ridgeway, is only three years older than the embryos, which are now two babies named Lydia Ann and Timothy Ronald.
The babies’ biological mother was a 34-year-old egg donor and their father was 50 when they were conceived.
The clinic explained that other embryos, which would be siblings of the current ones, were implanted at some point in that woman.
Timothy and Lydia, who were born three weeks ago, spent 15 years waiting in a West Coast fertility clinic and then another 15 years in storage in the laboratory at Southeastern Fertility, an NEDC-affiliated medical clinic.
According to the NEDC, the previous record for the oldest embryos successfully used was 27 years.
Source: TSF
