‘Miracle’ baby born from embryo frozen for a record 27 years

A record-breaking "miracle" baby has been born from an embryo frozen for 27 years.

Molly Everette Gibson was born from an embryo that was frozen in October 1992 — making her technically only 18 months younger than her mother, Tina, now 29.

“It’s hard to wrap your head around it,” Tina told The New York Post from her home in Knoxville, Tennessee. “But, as far as we’re concerned, Molly is our little miracle.”

According to researchers at the University of Tennessee Preston Medical Library, the girl enters the history books as the longest-frozen embryo known to result in a live birth.

Molly’s birth on October 26 arrival broke the previous record held by her sister, Emma Wren, who spent 24 years on ice before her delivery in November 2017.

Since the sisters, who are genetic siblings, were donated anonymously their biological parents remain unknown.

Emma loves her new little sister, Ms Gibson told the BBC: "She introduces her to anyone that sees her as 'my little sister Molly.'" And Ms Gibson has loved seeing the similarities between her girls, including a tiny wrinkle that appears between their eyebrows when they're upset.

Tina and Ben Gibson struggled to conceive 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."

Ms Gibson, an elementary school teacher and her husband, a 36-year-old cyber security analyst, connected with the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), a Christian non-profit in Knoxville that stores frozen embryos that in vitro fertilisation patients decided not to use and chose to donate instead.

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