{"id":1748189,"date":"2022-11-22T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748189"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T17:32:56","slug":"couple-welcomes-twins-from-30-year-old-frozen-embryos-breaking-previous-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/couple-welcomes-twins-from-30-year-old-frozen-embryos-breaking-previous-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple Welcomes Twins From 30-Year-Old Frozen Embryos, Breaking Previous Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcouple-welcomes-twins-from-30-year-old-frozen-embryos-breaking-previous-records%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>\u00a0A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tennessee\">Tennessee<\/a> couple made history by welcoming a pair of twins born from embryos that were frozen 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Before the birth of these two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/children\">babies<\/a>, the record for longest-frozen embryos resulting in a successful birth was 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Ridgeway delivered Lydia (5 lbs. 11 oz.) and Timothy (6 lbs. 7 oz.) on October 31 after adopting the embryos from the National Embryo Donation Center. Ridgeway and her husband have four other children who were not conceived using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/science\">fertility treatments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something mind-boggling about it,\u201d Rachel\u2019s husband, Philip Ridgeway, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/21\/health\/30-year-old-embryos-twins\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. \u201cIn a sense, they\u2019re our oldest children, even though they\u2019re our smallest children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The embryos originally belonged to an anonymous married couple at a West Coast fertility facility and were created using the sperm of the husband, who was in his early 50s, and a 34-year-old egg donor. The embryos were then frozen in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never had in our minds a set number of children we\u2019d like to have,\u201d Philip continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve always thought we\u2019ll have as many as God wants to give us, and \u2026 when we heard about embryo adoption, we thought that\u2019s something we would like to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outlet noted that five embryos were thawed in February and three survived. \u201cYou just showed me a picture of my three children,\u201d Rachel said of seeing photos of the embryos. \u201cI have to have them all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following the transfer, two embryos were successfully implanted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ridgeways said they had specifically sought out embryos that had been waiting a long time for parents to adopt them. \u201cWe weren\u2019t looking to get the embryos that have been frozen the longest in the world,\u201d Philip explained. \u201cWe just wanted the ones that had been waiting the longest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The National Embryo Donation Center is a private, Christian-led organization that requires recipients to pass a \u201cfamily assessment\u201d and matches embryos with couples who are \u201ca genetic male and a genetic female married for a minimum of 3 years.\u201d The group said it has helped more than 1,260 babies from donated embryos find families willing to adopt and birth them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbryo adoption is not a legal \u2018adoption\u2019 at all, at least in the sense of a traditional adoption which occurs after birth,\u201d the National Embryo Donation Center says. \u201cHowever, the term allows all parties to conceptualize the process and eventual reality of raising a non-genetically related child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Embryos can potentially survive in liquid nitrogen indefinitely. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem like a sperm or an egg or embryo stored in liquid nitrogen ever experiences time,\u201d Atlanta fertility specialist Dr. Jim Toner said. \u201cIt\u2019s like that Rip Van Winkle thing. It just wakes up 30 years later, and it never knew it was asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re frozen at nearly 200 degrees below zero, I mean, the biological processes essentially slow down to almost nothing,\u201d Dr. John Goner, who assisted the Ridgeways, agreed. \u201cAnd so perhaps the difference between being frozen for a week, a month, a year, a decade, two decades, it doesn\u2019t really matter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0A Tennessee couple made history by welcoming a pair of twins born from embryos that were frozen 30 years ago. Before the birth of these two babies, the record for longest-frozen embryos resulting in a successful birth was 27 years. 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