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A couple in Ohio welcomed their baby from an embryo that was frozen for 30 and a half years, making it the "oldest baby" in the world.
As per a report by BBC, this instance is the longest that an embryo has been frozen before resulting in a successful live birth.
Lindsey aged 35, and Tim Pierce, 34 welcomed their baby boy Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, describing the experience as "something from a sci-fi movie".
The couple had adopted the embryo from Linda Archerd, which was made with her then husband in 1994 through IVF, the report said.
Archerd, now 62, had produced four embryos, one of which is now her 30 year-old-daughter. She preserved the rest of them for years, paying thousands of dollars per year.
After separating from her then husband, Archerd kept the embryos as she did not want to donate them for research or give them to another family.
She later found a Christian embryo adoption agency, named 'Nightlight Christian Adoptions', which had a program that lets the donors choose a couple.
Her preference was for a "Caucasian, Christian couple from US" who can adopt the embryo, and that is how she met the couple, the report said.
When she saw the pictures of the baby, Archerd said the child looks like her daughter when she was a baby.
Meanwhile, the couple who had the baby said that they had no thoughts on "breaking any records"—they just "wanted to have a baby".