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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Meredith Clark

Parents welcome twins from embryos frozen in 1992

Courtesy of National Embryo Donation Center

A couple has welcomed twins born from the longest-frozen embryos to ever result in a live birth.

Twins Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway were born on 31 October in Oregon from embryos that were frozen on 22 April 1992. For nearly 30 years, the embryos were kept at a West Coast fertility lab until 2007, when the anonymous married couple who created the embryos donated them to the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC) in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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