The “major baby in the world was born.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was created on July 26 in the United States, almost 30 years after being frozen in the state of the embryo, reports Mit Technology Review.
The parents, Tim and Lindsey Pierce, received the embryo through Nightlight, a Christian agency specialized in adoption.
“He is very quiet. We are surprised to have this beautiful baby,” Lindsey told MIT magazine.
Parents in the component
The biological mother is called Linda Archerd. In the 1990s, he made in vitro fertilization with her husband (IVF) and created four healthy embryos. One of them was transferred to his uterus, giving birth to his daughter. The other three were frozen with the hope of one day having another baby.
But beautiful and her husband separated, and menopause made the project of another child impossible. Linda then decided to donate her embryos through the Christian adoption agency Nightlight, which allows her to say her opinion about future parents.
The agency has selected Lindsey and Tim Pierce, a couple of Ohio who were only young children when the embryo was designed for her. Married, “Caucasian” and Christians, correspond to the criteria established by Linda. In November 2024, two of the three frozen embryos were transferred to the Lindsey uterus and one of them developed in fetus. Nine months later, the mother gave birth gently.
“We haven’t embarked on this adventure thinking about breaking albums. We just wanted to have a baby,” Lindsey Pierce told Mit Technology Review.
“It looks like my daughter”
After the birth of Thaddeus, Linda, now 62, said she was anxious to meet the child and said she looked like her daughter.
“The first thing I noticed when Lindsey sent me his photos, is how much my daughter resembles when I was a baby,” he said.
Other babies have already been born of frozen embryos aged 27 or 30, notes mit technology review. But with 31 years of parenting, Thaddeus broke the world record.
Source: BFM TV
