{"id":306940,"date":"2025-07-31T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306940\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:49:12","slug":"worlds-oldest-baby-born-from-embryo-frozen-in-1994-ivf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306940\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s \u2018oldest baby\u2019 born from embryo frozen in 1994 | IVF"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world\u2019s \u201coldest baby\u201d has been born in the US from an embryo that was frozen in 1994, it has been reported.<\/p>\n

Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born on 26 July in Ohio to Lindsey and Tim Pierce, using an \u201cadopted\u201d embryo from Linda Archerd, 62, from more than 30 years ago.<\/p>\n

In the early 1990s, Archerd and her then husband decided to try in vitro fertilisation (IVF) after struggling to become pregnant. In 1994 four embryos resulted: one was transferred to Archerd and resulted in the birth of a daughter, who is now 30 and mother to a 10-year-old. The other embryos were cryopreserved and stored.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t go into it thinking we would break any records,\u201d Lindsey told the MIT Technology Review<\/a>, which first reported the story. \u201cWe just wanted to have a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

IVF is a type of fertility treatment where eggs are retrieved from a woman\u2019s ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a laboratory setting. The resulting embryos are then transferred back into the womb. The embryos can also be frozen and stored for future use.<\/p>\n

Archerd was awarded custody of the embryos after divorcing her husband. She then found out about embryo \u201cadoption\u201d, a type of embryo donation in which both donors and recipients have a say in who receives the embryos.<\/p>\n

Archerd had a preference for her embryo to be \u201cadopted\u201d by a white, Christian married couple, leading to the Pierces adopting the embryo.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a rough birth, but we\u2019re both doing well now,\u201d Lindsey said. \u201cHe is so chill. We are in awe that we have this precious baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archerd said: \u201cThe first thing that I noticed when Lindsey sent me his pictures is how much he looks like my daughter when she was a baby. I pulled out my baby book and compared them side by side, and there is no doubt that they are siblings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fertility clinic that transferred the embryo is run by John Gordon, a reproductive endocrinologist and Reformed Presbyterian who is working to reduce the number of embryos in storage.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the embryo transfer, Gordon said: \u201cWe have certain guiding principles, and they\u2019re coming from our faith. Every embryo deserves a chance at life and that the only embryo that cannot result in a healthy baby is the embryo not given the opportunity to be transferred into a patient.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the UK the proportion of IVF births <\/a>has increased from 1.3% in 2000 to 3.1% in 2023, the equivalent of one in 32 UK births, roughly one child in every classroom.<\/p>\n

For women aged 40 to 44, 11% of UK births were a result of IVF, up from 4% in 2000, accounting for 0.5% of all births, according to the Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority (HFEA). In the US, about 2% of births are from IVF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s \u201coldest baby\u201d has been born in the US from an embryo that was frozen in 1994,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-306940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114948640989787331","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}