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Woman gives birth to baby from embryo frozen 25-yrs ago
A 25-year-old woman identified as Emma Wren Gibson has given birth to a baby from an embryo frozen In 1992.
New mother Tina Gibson admits being shocked when she discovered she’d be carrying an egg about as old as she is.
“Do you realize I’m only 25? This embryo and I could have been best friends,” the mother says.
Carol Sommerfelt, embryology lab director at the National Embryo Donation Center, thawed out the “Emma-bryo” on March 13.
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Little Emma is believed to be the oldest known frozen embryo that came to successful birth, beating the previous record holder, who was 20 years old at the time of birth.
But Tina Gibson, who has turned 26 since the birth, has other priorities than world records.
“I just wanted a baby. I don’t care if it’s a world record or not,” she told CNN.
Tina and husband Benjamin live in eastern Tennessee and got their fully fertilized embryo from the National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, USA.
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