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Woman gives birth to a baby conceived 24 years earlier

Science December 20, 2017
A couple in Tennessee set a new science record, using a donor embryo frozen more than two decades ago.

This Tennessee born baby's name is Emma Wren Gibson. What's so special about her? She was frozen as an embryo on 14th October 1992. But on 25th November 2017, almost 25 years later, she is born. A world record created for the oldest frozen embryo birth. Her mom was born in 1991!!

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MIRACLE BABY: Emma Wren was born after being frozen for more than 24 years as an embryo. Her mother says she's a miracle and will have quite the story to tell someday. READ:

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Emma Gibson was conceived in 1992, and born in 2017.

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“Emma would have been conceived a year and a half before her mother, Tina Gibson, was born.”

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“Do you realize that I’m 25 years old? If the baby was born when it was supposed to born, we could have been best friends,” Emma’s mother, Tina Gibson, said. (via NBC News)

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A women in Tennessee gave birth to baby girl that has been a frozen embryo for 24 years.... science is so fascinating. That baby is kinda older than me.

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Emma Wren was born to Benjamin and Tina Gibson on Nov. 25. She is now the record-holder for longest-frozen embryo to come to birth, according to the research staff at the University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library -

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"We're just so thankful and blessed. She's a precious Christmas gift from the Lord. We're just so grateful." A couple is now the happy parents of a baby girl born from the longest-known frozen human embryo to result in a successful birth.

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