A 26-year-old American woman in Tennessee gave birth to a baby girl last month using a fetus that was frozen a year after her birth, according to the National Embryo Donation Center.
Emma Ren Gibson was born on November 25, 2017 from a fetus that was frozen on October 14, 1992 and according to experts this is the longest period between the conception and birth of an embryo since IVF began.
Her mother, Tina Gibson, born in 1991, and her father, Benjamin Gibson, were surprised to learn the exact date the fetus was frozen.
"Do you realize that I am only 25 years old? The fetus and I could be best friends ", commented the mother, 26-year-old Tina Gibson, in an interview with the local television network WBIR. "I just wanted a baby. "I do not care if it is a world record or not."
The National Embryo Donation Center offered the couple the frozen embryo, which doctors describe as "snow-babies" because of the long time they remain frozen.
The organization encourages couples who do not want other children to offer the embryos they do not want to be frozen so that other families can use them.
The 24-year-old fetus is believed to have remained frozen for longer than any other human fetus.
Neither parent is biologically related to the baby.