Anyone know who the... donor was?
Posted on 12/19/2017 10:28:50 AM PST by billorites
An East Tennessee couple has welcomed a baby girl who grew from the longest-frozen embryo to ever result in a birth.
Benjamin and Tina Gibson’s daughter, Emma Wren, weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces when she came into the world on November 25.
Prior to being transferred into Tina’s uterus at the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville earlier this year, the embryo Emma grew from had been cryopreserved for more than 24 years, according to a news release.
And, according to research staff at the University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library, that makes her the all-time record holder for the longest-frozen embryo to result in birth.
Interestingly, Emma’s embryo was frozen on Oct. 14, 1992, when Tina was just a year-and-a-half old.
“It is deeply moving and highly rewarding to see that embryos frozen 24.5 years ago using the old, early cryopreservation techniques of slow freezing on day one of development at the pronuclear stage can result in 100 percent survival of the embryos with a 100 percent continued proper development to the day-3 embryo stage,” said NEDC Lab Director Carol Sommerfelt.
“Emma is such a sweet miracle,” Benjamin said of his daughter. “I think she looks pretty perfect to have been frozen all those years ago.”
"I think she looks pretty perfect to have been frozen all those years ago."
Maybe a little freezer burn, but that will buff out.
In Arkansas they’re already thinking about the opportunities this may bring....
Should have named her Elsa.
So is she considered to be 24 when she was born? She can bypass milk and go straight to beer!
There’s a Roy Moore joke in here somewhere...
24 years in the making, and safe from any advances of Alabama Republicans.
“I can’t help but to be sympathetic for couples having difficulty conceiving.”
Me, too, yet unnerved by thoughts of millions of embryos frozen indefinitely or discarded as trash, when, as this story demonstrates, they are human beings in their earliest stages of life.
Anyone know who the... donor was?
Which goes to show those embryos are HUMAN BEINGS... so are the ones aborted at any weeks or any months into the pregnancy.
24 yrs old at birth? Just a thought....
Forgot to ask if anyone has seen the movie, “Forever Young”?
Means this baby has been voting Democrat for six years.
So why was such an old embryo used? Did it belong to someone in the family? Was it an experiment? I have a lot of questions.
There’s a sci fi/horror movie in this somewhere.
Plus the possibility of all sorts of inter-generational kinkiness.
An abomination. Do things the normal way, or not at all.
And only 2 more years on parents health care.
Interestingly, Emma’s embryo was frozen on Oct. 14, 1992, when Tina was just a year-and-a-half old.
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So daughter and mother are almost the same age going by conception. What if the embryo was older?
Then when she’s a teenager she really WILL be
smarter than her parents :-)
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