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A Woman Gave Birth From an Embryo Frozen for 24 Years

“This embryo and I could have been best friends.”
Source: National Embryo Donation Center

Emma Wren Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born a few days after Thanksgiving in 2017, more than 25 years later. It’s the longest an embryo is known to have been frozen before being born as baby.

In fact, the embryo that became Emma is only a year younger than the woman who gave birth to her, Tina Gibson. “This embryo and I could have been best friends,” Gibson, now 26, . Tina and her husband “adopted” the frozen embryo after learning he was likely

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