Science has advanced so much that it achieves situations as curious as those of these two twins which were conceived in 1992but they only have a few days to live. His adoptive father was only 5 years old when they were already about frozen embryos. Are the oldest babies in the world: has already 30 years old.
lydia Y Timothy Ridgeway They were born on October 31. They’re less than a month old, so they’re officially babies. But their origin goes back 30 years in time, when their parents conceived them.
Many couples use the technique of in vitro fertilization to conceive a child, when they cannot do so by natural methods. This technique can cause multiple children are fathered at the same time. Many couples choose to freeze some of these embryos, in case they want to have more children in the future, or to donate them.
Frozen embryos can be implanted in another woman, so that she can carry out the pregnancy. That is what has happened with lydia Y Timothy Ridgewaythe Oldest babies in history.
Normally the frozen embryos They have a 10-year use, but it has already been shown that they can be operational much longer.
Until now, the oldest frozen embryo that has developed successfully was that of Molly Gibson, who was born in 2020 from an embryo that had been frozen for 27 years. Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway have broken the record, since their embryos they wore 30 years frozen.
His natural parents remain anonymous. They were a man in his fifties and his wife, who was already in her thirties.
How is an embryo frozen?
Embryos are sprayed with a compound that absorbs water from cells before being snap frozen. are stored in liquid nitrogen a 196 degrees below zero. They can remain like this for decades, until they are implanted.
Near one million people have been born from frozen embryos.
This temporary difference between conception and birth gives rise to very curious situations. adoptive parents of the oldest babies in the world They have 4 other children between the ages of 2 and 8, so as the father, Philip Ridgeway says: “In a sense, these babies are our oldest children, even though they are our youngest children.“. He is right…