In what is believed to be a record, twins in Oregon were born this past Halloween from embryos that were frozen in 1992.
The National Embryo Donation Center says the twins, named Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway, are the longest-frozen embryos to result in live birth,“There is something mind-boggling about it,” Philip Ridgeway told CNN as he and wife, Rachel Ridgeway, held their newborns. “I was 5 years old when God gave life to Lydia and Timothy, and he’s been preserving that life ever since.”
In the case of newborns Lydia and Timothy, their donor parents are an anonymous married couple. The husband was in his early 50s at the time, and the couple used a 34-year-old egg donor, CNN reported. “In a sense, they’re our oldest children, even though they’re our smallest children,” said Philip Ridgeway.
“We’ve never had in our minds a set number of children we’d like to have,” Philip Ridgeway said. “We’ve always thought we’ll have as many as God wants to give us, and … when we heard about embryo adoption, we thought that’s something we would like to do.”for Harvard Medical School, fertility expert Ellen S. Glazer said there are countless IVF-created embryos whose future path has five options.
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