When Molly Gibson was born in October of this year, it was 27 years in the making. The new-born baby’s embryo was frozen in October 1992, and stayed that way until February 2020, when Tina and Ben Gibson of Tennessee adopted the embryo. Molly is believed to have set a new record for the longest-frozen embryo to have resulted in a birth, breaking a record set by her older sister, Emma.

“We’re over the moon,” Ms Gibson said. “I still get choked up.” “If you would have asked me five years ago if I would have not just one girl, but two, I would have said you were crazy,” she said. The family struggled with infertility for nearly five years before Ms Gibson’s parents saw a story about embryo adoption on a local news station. “That’s the only reason that we share our story. If my parents hadn’t seen this on the news then we wouldn’t be here,” Ms Gibson, 29, said. “I feel like it should come full-circle.”(BBC)…[+]