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Yahoo
12 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Frozen embryo adoption interest grows following record-breaking birth
HILLSBORO, Mo. – Nightlight Christian Adoptions is the agency that helped connect Ohio parents Lindsey and Tim Pierce with a frozen embryo donor. The embryo was frozen in 1994. The birth of Thaddeus Pierce in July has some calling his birth the oldest on record. 'People are saying he's 30 years old,' said Lara Kelso, executive director of the Nightlight Christian Adoptions office in Hillsboro, Missouri. 'He's really just a newborn baby.' Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now The story has made international headlines and generated curiosity. 'It's brought a lot of awareness to embryos and embryo adoption,' Kelso said. St. Louis Sheriff says office upgrades won't cost taxpayers; FOX 2 tracks dumped furniture The agency has locations in various parts of the country. It helps parents adopt in several ways, including domestic adoption, international programs, and adoption from foster care. The agency's program for embryo adoption is Snowflakes. Kelso encourages anyone with questions about the process to reach out. 'We handle it from beginning to end much like a traditional domestic adoption,' she said. Kelso said many families are surprised to learn frozen embryos are an option. 'Anytime we have an inquiry call, we do like to explain to them that we do have a program that can allow you to be pregnant with your adopted child and start bonding early on in the pregnancy,' she said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Solve the daily Crossword
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.
The Independent
01-08-2025
- Science
- The Independent
Couple welcomes world's ‘oldest baby' born from embryo frozen in 1994
A boy born in Ohio from an embryo that was frozen for over three decades has reportedly set a new world record as the world's "oldest baby". Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born to parents Lindsey and Tim Pierce on 26 July, about 31 years after his embryo was frozen. After trying for seven years to conceive a baby, the couple from London, Ohio, chose to adopt an embryo created through IVF in 1994 by Linda Archerd, now 62 years old, and her then-husband. "We had a rough birth, but we are both doing well now,' Lindsey Pierce told MIT Technology Review. "He is so chill. We are in awe that we have this precious baby!" Ms Pierce said they didn't "go into it thinking we would break any records. We just wanted a baby". The newborn is believed to have broken the record for the 'oldest' baby, which was previously held by twins born in 2022 from embryos frozen in 1992. She said her family and church family think 'it's like something from a sci-fi movie'. Ms Archerd created four embryos, out of which one became her daughter, now aged 30, and three others were left in storage. Despite her separation from her husband, Ms Archerd was adamant about not discarding the embryos, donating them for research, or anonymously giving them to another family. She said it was essential for her to remain involved in the process, as the child would be a biological sibling to her adult daughter. 'It's my DNA; it came from me … and [it's] my daughter's sibling,' she told the MIT Technological Review. She reportedly spent thousands of dollars annually on storage until she discovered Nightlight Christian Adoptions – a faith-based agency that runs the Snowflakes program. The initiative allows embryo donors to select the adoptive couple after taking into account preferences such as religion, race, and nationality. Ms Archerd said she requested a married, Caucasian, Christian couple based in the US. "I didn't want to go out of the country," she added. 'It's been pretty surreal. It's hard to even believe," said Ms Archerd, who is yet to meet the baby.
