I gave birth to a 27- year- old baby

Record... little Molly held by mother Tina and, right, inset

A WOMAN has given birth to a baby thought to have been produced from the longest- frozen embryo conceived 27 years ago.

Tina Gibson, 29, also held the previous record with the sibling of her newborn three years ago.

The embryos of her new addition Molly Everette and sister Emma were frozen together and are fully genetic related.

Tina said: “It’s hard to wrap your head around it but, as far as we’re concerned, Molly is our little miracle. She’s definitely been a little spark of joy for 2020.

“With Emma, we were just so smitten to have a baby. With Molly, we’re the same way. It’s just kind of funny – here we go again with another world record.”

Emma spent 24 years on ice before her delivery in November 2017. Her and Molly were thawed nearly three years apart at the National Embryo Donation Center in the US before their respective transfers into Tina’s uterus. She is only scientifically 18 months older than her daughter but younger than her eldest girl.

Since they were donated anonymously, their biological parents remain unknown.

Lab director Carol Sommerfelt said: “It is very rewarding for me to see an embryo that was frozen years ago result in the birth of a lovely baby.

“I feel honoured to be part of the process.”

Tina and husband Ben, 36, used embryo donors as he has cystic fibrosis which can cause infertility.

The couple from

Knoxville, Tennessee, first turned to the NEDC after trying naturally for their own child over the course of five years. The pair, married for 10 years, had previously fostered children and were considering adoption.

But, in early 2017, Tina’s parents told them about the NEDC after watching a story about it on the TV news. Tina, recalling her reaction about the prospect of using a donor embryo said: “We were like, ‘ That sounds crazy. No, thank you, we’re not interested’. “Then we kept thinking about it and couldn’t get it out of our minds.” Experts say that there is no known shelf life for the use of a frozen embryo.