This is the 30-year-old baby born from an embryo frozen in the early 1990s | Credit: Courtesy of Lindsey Pierce
The amazing story of embryos created in 1994, while the expectant father was still a toddler, and donated via a Christian “embryo adoption” agency. Remarkable and unthinkable.
The MIT Technology Review shared their exclusive on Thursday, July 30th, and it’s about a baby boy born over the last weekend. The child holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26th, developed from an embryo that had been frozen in storage for 30 and a half years.
“We had a rough birth, but we are both doing well now,” says Lindsey Pierce, his mother. “He is so chill. We are in awe that we have this precious baby!” Lindsey and her husband, Tim Pierce, who live in London, Ohio, “adopted” the embryo from a woman who had it created in 1994.
The story began in the early 1990s
“The baby has a 30-year-old sister,” she adds. Tim was a toddler when the embryos were first created.
The story starts back in the early 1990s. Archerd had been trying—and failing—to get pregnant for six years. She and her husband decided to try IVF, a fairly new technology back then.
In May 1994, they managed to create four embryos. One of them was transferred to Linda’s uterus. It resulted in a healthy baby girl. “I was so blessed to have a baby,” Archerd says. The remaining three embryos were cryopreserved and kept in a storage tank.
That was 31 years ago. The healthy baby girl is now a 30-year-old woman who has her own 10-year-old daughter. But the other three embryos remained frozen in time.
“We didn’t go into it thinking we would break any records,” says Lindsey. “We just wanted to have a baby.”
