<p>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. </p><p>As per a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wne86ex9qo">report</a> by <em>BBC</em>, this instance is the longest that an embryo has been frozen before resulting in a successful live birth. </p><p>Lindsey aged 35, and Tim Pierce, 34 welcomed their baby boy Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, describing the experience as "something from a sci-fi movie".</p><p>The couple had adopted the embryo from Linda Archerd, which was made with her then husband in 1994 through IVF, the report said. </p><p>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. </p>.Australian woman gives birth to wrong couple's baby in IVF mix-up.<p>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.</p><p>She later found a Christian embryo adoption agency, named 'Nightlight Christian Adoptions', which had a program that lets the donors choose a couple. </p><p>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. </p><p>When she saw the pictures of the baby, Archerd said the child looks like her daughter when she was a baby. </p><p>Meanwhile, the couple who had the baby said that they had no thoughts on "breaking any records"—they just "wanted to have a baby".</p>
<p>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. </p><p>As per a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wne86ex9qo">report</a> by <em>BBC</em>, this instance is the longest that an embryo has been frozen before resulting in a successful live birth. </p><p>Lindsey aged 35, and Tim Pierce, 34 welcomed their baby boy Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, describing the experience as "something from a sci-fi movie".</p><p>The couple had adopted the embryo from Linda Archerd, which was made with her then husband in 1994 through IVF, the report said. </p><p>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. </p>.Australian woman gives birth to wrong couple's baby in IVF mix-up.<p>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.</p><p>She later found a Christian embryo adoption agency, named 'Nightlight Christian Adoptions', which had a program that lets the donors choose a couple. </p><p>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. </p><p>When she saw the pictures of the baby, Archerd said the child looks like her daughter when she was a baby. </p><p>Meanwhile, the couple who had the baby said that they had no thoughts on "breaking any records"—they just "wanted to have a baby".</p>
