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Screen Geek
05-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Screen Geek
Newborn Baby Is Actually 30 Years Old Thanks To Medical Miracle
A surprising science and medical miracle has occurred with the birth of a newborn baby that is actually 30 years old. The baby, named Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, was born from an embryo frozen as far back as 1994. Now, more than three decades later, he has been thawed and successfully birthed in 2025. As shared via Dexerto, the baby was first donated with a batch of embryos by Linda Archerd in 1994. The outlet describes her as having 'had a rough time finding someone willing to bring those children into the world. She had trouble conceiving at the time with her partner and resorted to IVF (In vitro fertilization), a method of creating an embryo in a lab rather than in your body.' Archerd donated a total of four embryos that were frozen. One of them was brought to term and born. It was the other three that spent decades frozen before the latest one, young Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, was finally born himself on July 26, 2025, as pointed out via the below social media post. The world's oldest baby has been born from an embryo frozen in 1994 Thaddeus Daniel Pierce is over 30 years old despite being born July 26, 2025 — Dexerto (@Dexerto) August 3, 2025 While she wanted to have another child, she had to instead find another couple as life got in the way, and she finally did after spending $1,000 a year to keep her embryos in cold storage. It wasn't until she discovered embryo adoption that she finally found a way to connect with a potential surrogate family – one that finally worked out after she was turned down by most agencies due to the age of the embryos. The couple that was ultimately chosen for the opportunity were Tim and Lindsey Pierce, who struggled for seven years to try and have a child. They ultimately decided to try Archerd's embryos. Out of the remaining three, only one survived the process after being thawed, and that embryo became the healthy baby boy now named Thaddeus. It's an impressive feat that combines the science of 1994 with the technology we now have available in 2025, allowing a 30-year-old embryo to find life as a newborn baby. Meanwhile, the Pierce couple have admitted they didn't want to break any records with their pregnancy, they simply wanted to be able to finally have a child – and they did.
NDTV
02-08-2025
- Health
- NDTV
World's 'Oldest' Baby Born From 30-Year-Old Frozen Embryo
A baby born in the US from an embryo frozen 30 years ago is believed to have broken the record for the world's 'oldest' baby. Named Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, the baby was born on July 26 from the embryo that had been cryopreserved since 1994. The baby's parents, Lindsey and Tim Pierce, who live in Ohio, had been trying to get pregnant for seven years. The breakthrough came when they "adopted" the embryo from Linda Archerd, 62, who had it stored decades ago. "We had a rough birth but we are both doing well now. He is so chill. We are in awe that we have this precious baby!" Lindsey Pierce, his mother, was quoted as saying by MIT Technology Review. It was in the early 1990s that Ms Archerd and her then-husband decided to try in vitro fertilisation (IVF) after struggling to conceive. In 1994, four embryos resulted: one was transferred to Archerd and resulted in the birth of a daughter, who is now 30 and mother to a 10-year-old. The other embryos were cryopreserved and stored. "The baby has a 30-year-old sister. It's been pretty surreal. It's hard to even believe," said Ms Archerd, who revealed that she had wanted another baby using the embryo, but her then-husband felt differently. Ms Archerd went on to divorce him, but she won custody of the embryos and kept them in storage, still hopeful she might use them one day, perhaps with another partner. AI helps couple conceive Last month, a couple trying to conceive a baby for 18 years finally managed to get pregnant thanks to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). IVF attempts were unsuccessful due to azoospermia, a rare condition in which no measurable sperm is present in the male partner's semen. Using the STAR (Sperm Tracking and Recovery) method devised by the Columbia University Fertility Center (CUFC), the couple managed to get pregnant. Researchers at the fertility centre examined the semen sample with the AI-powered system and managed to find the hidden sperm. After recovering the sperm, it was used to fertilise the wife's egg via IVF, and she became the first-ever woman to conceive using the STAR method.
The Herald
02-08-2025
- Science
- The Herald
Baby born from 30-year-old embryo breaks record
A couple from the US in Ohio is elated after the birth of their baby boy who was conceived from an embryo frozen for more than 30 years, reportedly setting a new world record. According to MIT Technology Review, Lindsey, 35, and Tim Pierce, 34, welcomed their son, Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, on Saturday, saying, 'It's like something from a sci-fi movie.' The couple 'adopted' the embryo from a woman in 1994. The Pierces had been trying for a child for seven years before they decided to adopt the embryo. According to reports, this could be the longest that an embryo has been frozen before resulting in a successful birth. The BBC reported that the previous record-holders were twins born in 2022 from embryos frozen in 1992. TimesLIVE
Straits Times
02-08-2025
- Health
- Straits Times
US couple welcomes baby boy from embryo frozen for nearly 31 years
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Thaddeus Daniel Pierce began as an embryo in 1994, the same year that Forrest Gump hit theatres and the first PlayStation. Thaddeus Daniel Pierce took his first breaths at a hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee, on July 26. He weighed 3kg, had a modest tuft of hair, and technically was already more than 30 years old. His life began as an embryo in 1994, the same year that Forrest Gump hit theatres and the first PlayStation appeared on store shelves. Thaddeus had spent the intervening 11,148 days in cold storage, a tiny time capsule in liquid nitrogen, before being adopted by Ms Lindsey Pierce, 35, and Mr Tim Pierce, 34, from Ohio. The Pierces' son is believed to be the result of the longest-frozen embryo ever brought to term. Ms Pierce said they 'weren't trying for a record'. 'We just wanted a baby,' she said. 'He is so chill. We are in awe that we have this precious baby.' The embryo belonged to Ms Linda Archerd, now 62, who in the 90s turned to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) after fighting infertility for years. Top stories Swipe. Select. Stay informed. Singapore Opening of Woodlands Health has eased load on KTPH, sets standard for future hospitals: Ong Ye Kung Singapore New vehicular bridge connecting Punggol Central and Seletar Link to open on Aug 3 Singapore New S'pore jobs portal launched for North West District residents looking for work near home Singapore HSA investigating teen who was observed to be allegedly vaping in MRT train Asia KTM plans new passenger rail service in Johor Bahru to manage higher footfall expected from RTS Singapore Tengah facility with over 40 animal shelters, businesses hit by ticks Business Property 'decoupling' illegal if done solely to avoid taxes: High Court Singapore 60 years of building Singapore Back then, the ability to freeze and thaw embryos was still something of a frontier. Ms Archerd's IVF treatments resulted in four embryos, and she had intended to use them all. The first one led to a daughter, but a divorce later left the remaining three suspended not only in nitrogen but also in limbo. For years, Ms Archerd paid the storage fees, first dutifully, then guiltily. 'I used to think of them as three little hopes,' she said. Eventually, she founded Snowflakes, a Christian-oriented embryo-adoption programme that lets donors choose adoptive families and maintain some degree of openness. It offered a compromise between letting the embryos expire and the more abstract anonymity of donation. Embryo adoption remains rare. Just 2 per cent of US births involve IVF, and an even smaller fraction involve embryos that began as someone else's. Meanwhile, an estimated 1.5 million embryos sit in freezers across the United States, awaiting either a second chance or an administrative decision. What do to with 'leftovers'? Dr John David Gordon, the Pierces' fertility specialist, said the problem 'is that we're very good at making embryos, but we're not very good at deciding what to do with the leftovers'. Dr Gordon's clinic, Rejoice Fertility, is known for accepting even the most geriatric embryos, sometimes shipped across the US in ageing containers. Of the three embryos that Ms Archerd donated to the Pierces, one did not survive the thaw. Two were transferred to Ms Pierce, and one was implanted. That single embryo – older than some of the nurses in the delivery room – became a living child. The achievement comes against a shifting legal backdrop. Earlier in 2024, Alabama's Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos are legally equivalent to children, briefly throwing IVF clinics into panic. Legislators have since offered temporary liability protections, but the question of how to treat embryos – ethically, legally, emotionally – remains unsettled. Ms Archerd says she feels relief, mixed with a kind of melancholy. She has received photos of the boy from the Pierces and hopes one day to meet him. 'I would love to see him,' she said. 'Just to know that he's real, and that my little hopes are out in the world.'
The Independent
01-08-2025
- Health
- The Independent
Meet Thaddeus: The baby born 31 years after his embryo was frozen
Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born in Ohio on 26 July from an embryo frozen for 31 years, potentially setting a new world record as the "oldest baby". His parents, Lindsey and Tim Pierce, adopted the embryo after trying to conceive for seven years. The embryo was created via IVF in 1994 by Linda Archerd, who had stored it for years before donating it through the Snowflakes programme. Ms Archerd maintained involvement in the donation process, selecting an adoptive family based on specific criteria, as the child would be a biological sibling to her adult daughter. The previous record for the "oldest" baby was held by twins born in 2022 from embryos frozen in 1992.
