A baby boy in Ohio has made history as the “world’s oldest baby,” born from an embryo that was frozen more than 30 years ago in 1994.
MIT Technology Review reports that Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born on July 26 in Ohio to parents Lindsey and Tim Pierce. What makes Thaddeus extraordinary is that he was born from an embryo that had been cryopreserved for over three decades.
The embryo was originally created in 1994 when Linda Archerd, now 62, and her then-husband underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment to overcome fertility issues. The process resulted in four embryos, one of which was implanted in Archerd and led to the birth of a daughter, now 30 years old with a child of her own. The remaining embryos were frozen for potential future use.
Following her divorce, Archerd was granted custody of the embryos. She learned about embryo “adoption,” a process that allows donors and recipients to mutually agree on who receives the embryos. Archerd expressed a preference for a white, Christian married couple to adopt her embryo, which led her to the Pierces.
“We didn’t go into it thinking we would break any records,” Lindsey Pierce told the MIT Technology Review. “We just wanted to have a baby.”
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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