Emma Wren is a 3 kg, 50 centimeter baby who is the pride of her parents. Like any birth. With the difference that this couple attributes the coming into the world of little Emma to a miracle. Benjamin and Tina Gibson, Americans from Tennessee, became young parents after a frozen embryo transfer … 24 years earlier. Little Emma would thus hold (without knowing it) the record for the baby born at the end of the longest embryo cryopreservation, according to the Preston Medical Library at the University of Tennessee.
Tina Gibson, 26, is got pregnant in March 2017 after the 24-year-frozen embryo was implanted in her uterus at the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) in Knoxville, reports CBS news. The embryo came from another couple. It was designed and cryopreserved in October 1992.
“Emma is such a sweet miracle,” said father Benjamin Gibson to the press. “I think she looks pretty perfect even though she’s been frozen all these years,” he added humorously.
Transfer of frozen embryos
Embryo freezing allows the couple to preserve the so-called “supernumerary” embryos that have not been transferred into the uterus during in vitro fertilization (IVF). Zoe was born in 1984, the first baby born from an embryo obtained by in vitro fertilizationand frozen. For hundreds of thousands of births resulting from this process were born across the world.
What does the law in France say about unused embryos? Article L. 2141-4 of the Public Health Code stipulates: “If they no longer have a parental plan or in the event of the death of one of them, the two members of a couple, or the surviving member, can consent to their embryos being taken in by another couple […] the consent or request is expressed in writing and is confirmed in writing after a reflection period of three months “.
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