A couple has baby from a 30 year old frozen embryo

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
An unusual story, but Ohio couple welcomes baby from embryo
that it's frozen over thirty years ago, born to Lindsay
and Tim Pierce of London, Ohio. On July twenty sixth,
Rejoice Fertility announced the entrance of Thaddeus Pierce. The clinic,
operated by doctor John Gordon, noted that the baby boy
developed from an embryo QOIO preserved for more than thirty years,

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making him the longest frozen embryo ever to result in
a live birth. This has made the parents of the
previous record Center is healthy twin born in about twenty
two thousand and twenty twenty two, after three decades an
embryo storage as well. They said they had a rough berth,
but we're both doing well now. He is so chill.

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We are in awe that we have this precious baby
after dealing with infertility for seven years. That Pierce's success
story began about two years ago. The couple shared on
social media about their decision to adopt a snowflake baby,
referring to the adoption of an embryo donated by another person.
According to MIT, the embryo eventually developed into Thatius was
one of four frozen in nineteen ninety four by a

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couple who had a successful pregnancy using just one of
the fertilized eggs. The other three were stored by the
mother for years until being donated in twenty twenty two
to the Snowflake's Embryo Adoption program.