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    Woman, 26, Has Baby Born From Record Breaking 24-Year-Old Frozen Embryo


    Woman, 26, Has Baby Born From Record Breaking 24-Year-Old Frozen Embryo
    December 19, 2017 at 12:22 pm
    http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2017/1...frozen-embryo/

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — 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.....






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    How totally bizarre and yet, by choosing that embryo, they saved a life. It would be interesting to watch that child grow up... will it exhibit traits of an "old soul"?

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    Found an article from Focus on the Family about that organization, they're a faith based group:

    Frozen in Limbo

    ...NEDC Marketing and Development Director Mark Mellinger says the organization has from its conception tried to to "preserve human life and dignity in what we believe biblically to be the very tiniest of human lives."

    In the U.S. alone, 600,000 to one million living human embryos remain in cryogenic limbo. Some have now been that way for 15 or 20 years—and some may remain that way indefinitely. Why? In short, families struggling with fertility have taken advantage of IVF, a medical procedure for fertilizing a woman's eggs in a test tube to create embryos that can then be transferred into her uterus later. For various reasons, however, many doctors fertilize more eggs than necessary—leaving a large surplus of unwanted but viable embryos...

    http://www.focusonthefamily.com/soci...rozen-in-limbo

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    I wondered why they chose such an old embryo then I saw this on the news... they didn't know:


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