A couple from the United States gave October 31st to twins born from frozen embryos in April 1992. The children’s mother, Rachel Ridgeway, is only three years older than the embryos, who are now called Lydia Ann and Timothy Ronald, and they add to the four children the family already had, ages eight, six, three and nearly two, none of whom had been conceived via IVF or donors. Phillip Ridgeway, the children’s father, acknowledged that “there is something surprising about this problem. I was 5 years old when God gave life to Lydia and Timothy, and He has preserved this life ever since. In a sense, I am our older children, even if they are our younger children.
New record of frozen embryos
As explained by the National Center for Embryo Donation al CNN, the record was held by Molly Gibson, a girl born in 2020 from an embryo frozen for 27 years, which was nothing new to her family, as Molly’s sister Emma was also born from an embryo frozen for 24 years. This was explained by the National Center for Embryo Donation of this country “Embryo adoption is by no means a legal ‘adoption’, at least in the sense of a traditional adoption, which occurs after birth.” “However, the term allows all parties to conceptualize the process and eventual reality of raising a child without a genetic relationship,” they clarified. and Rachel Ridgeway They have not undergone an adoption process, but an embryo donation.
30 years in liquid nitrogen
The biological mother of the children was a 34-year-old egg donor and their father was 50 when they were conceived, and they were frozen on April 22, 1992. As detailed by the clinic, other embryos that would be siblings of the current ones would have been implanted at some point in the woman. For nearly three decades, the embryos have been kept in liquid nitrogen at nearly 200 degrees below zero, in a device that looks a lot like a propane tank. Timothy and Lydia spent 15 years waiting in a fertility clinic from the west coast until 2007. Until, finally, the owners of the embryos decided to donate them to the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. With the intention that another couple could use them.
The National Center for Embryo Donation is a private organization of a Christian nature and To use the embryos, a number of conditions must be met: The couple who will receive the embryos must be made up of a man and a woman, they must have been together for at least 3 years and they must pass a “family assessment” to verify that they are the right candidates.
