Twins born from embryos frozen 30 years ago!
Rachel Ridgeway is ecstatic that she is technically just three years older than her twins...
Becoming a parent and seeing your child or children after being born for the first time can certainly be described as a miracle of life.
But when you birth twins who were born from the oldest known embryos, that can be described as a super miracle.
"Rachel and her husband, Philip, got pregnant three decades after their son and daughter — named Timothy and Lydia — were frozen as embryos in April 1992." (Business Insider)
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"The infants' biological parents, who have stayed anonymous, donated their leftover embryos to the National Embryo Donation Center, or NEDC, after going through IVF." (Business Insider)
It sounds as out of this world as it is.
Parents Rachel and Philip were technically only three and five years old when their twins were conceived.
Definitely mind-blowing - and they agree, saying that everyone who hears about their story has some trouble wrapping their minds around it.
The couple had four kids aged between 2 and 8 and were looking into fertility treatments to conceive again.
They used the money that would've gone toward fertility treatments to adopt the frozen embryos.
These embryos are often overlooked because the donators have known history of genetic diseases. But that didn't matter to the Ridgeways.
Three embryos were transferred and two took. Rachel shared that she had a fairly straight-forward pregnancy and the twins were born on the 31st of October 2022.
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