It seems that the future has already arrived, but we did not notice.
At first glance, Tina and Benjamin are an ordinary young couple. But they have one problem: Tina could not conceive a child from her husband. This is because Ben suffers from cystic fibrosis, an inherited condition that rendered him infertile. Doctors predicted that Ben would live to a maximum of 30 years. Therefore, the spouses did not want to waste time in vain. They decided to use a donor embryo – it turns out that it happens.
But even the very fact of replanting a frozen embryo is not so surprising, somehow, how long this very embryo was waiting in the wings. 24 years – that is how long he lay in the storage of the National Center for Donor Embryos.
“We only found out about this the next morning before the operation. It turns out that this is the longest time for which embryos have ever been frozen, “said Tina
It turned out that this child is only a year and a half less than Tina! He was conceived 25 years before his date of birth. It seems incredible.
“To be honest, I was afraid that nothing would come of it,” Tina recalls. – I didn’t need a world record at all, I wanted a child! Just think, at the time of the operation I was 25 years old, the embryo was 24. We could be friends! “
The procedure for replanting a frozen embryo was similar to IVF: hormonal therapy, then, in fact, implantation of the embryo. With one difference: the fruit had to be thawed first. Everything went smoothly. The embryo has taken root.
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The pregnancy was also going well. On November 25 last year, Emma was born – a healthy and strong child of Tina and Benjamin. Childbirth lasted a day, passed naturally. And even Tina refused anesthesia: “I have no idea why I did this! I do not advise anyone to repeat my experience. ” The family is now preparing for their first Christmas with the three of them. The couple are thinking about a second child. “I don’t want to rush things, but perhaps in a year I will decide to repeat this story,” says Tina.
By the way, parents assure that they will certainly tell baby Emma how she was born: “This is an amazing story. Such a miracle … “