A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a half years.
This happened over the summer, but I hadn’t seen the news about it. My faith doesn’t have precisely defined beliefs on when life begins (at conception, at first heartbeat, brain waves, quickening, etc.), but it makes for a fascinating question as to how a religious person might position this outcome. If life begins at conception, was Thaddeus alive while frozen for 30 years?
Interestingly, it was a Christian embryo adoption agency that helped arrange the pregnancy.
A record-breaking baby has born from an embryo that’s over 30 years old | MIT Technology Review