Marilyn's PHotos - Aug 23 2025 - The World's Oldest Baby
The headline is strange: "World's oldest baby is born" - how can this be? How can a baby be old, older or oldest?
The embryo was frozen in 1994, so being born on July 26, 2025, he is 30 plus years old at birth. His embryo mother is now 62. His sister is 30 years old and she has a daughter who is 10 years old.
The embryo got adopted by its current family, and the new mother says "her family and church family think it's like something from a sci-fi movie,"
The original mother kept the embryos after winning custody of them in a divorce from her first husband. She thought it was the right thing to do and to keep them in storage. It got more complicated as she got much older. She wanted to place the embryos up for adoption and found a religious agency where they made a match with another Christian couple living in the US with a similar background. It was a "hard to place" embryo having been in storage for so long. The possibilities of damage were much higher with the extremely long storage period.
One of the articles had scientific details on the freezing methods - so complicated and so much technical expertise has developed over time. It is a remarkable story of human accomplishment.
There are still mysteries. We may know all about the physical processes and structures of the human embryo, but what else might be at play? Remember the heart transplant recipients that experienced transplants of donor behaviours? You have to wonder what could be possible with embryos.
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