US woman delivers health baby from embryo frozen for over 24 years

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US woman delivers health baby from embryo frozen for over 24 years
US woman delivers health baby from embryo frozen for over 24 years

Washington : An American woman has delivered a healthy baby girl from an embryo that was frozen for over 24 years, as mentioned in the official records.

The baby, named Emma Wren Gibson, was born November 25, according to the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) in Knoxville, Tennessee, which revealed the birth announcement this week.

This could be a world record as oldest embryo conceived by a couple till date was frozen on October 14, 1992.

Tina Gibson, the woman who just gave birth to Emma Wren, was born in 1991, NEDC marketing director Mark Mellinger told AFP on Wednesday.

"We could have been best friends," said Gibson, now 26, in an interview with local television WBIR.

Gibson said she wasn't told by doctors until she was pregnant that the embryo had been frozen more than 24 years earlier. 

"I just stared at them, I was like, what? Are you kidding?"

The previous record-holder was believed to be a baby boy frozen for 20 years, born to a New York woman in 2011.