A 4 -year -old child is born: the key in 1994

The child was born completely healthy in the United States as a result of the process Auxiliary reproduction with the donation of embryosThe field of the embryo donation is not rare. When the couple does not want to continue to pay for the rest of their embryos, they can choose them or sacrifice both for research and for reproductive purposes. However, despite how this is usual, what has just happened in a North American country is almost unprecedented, since the donated embryo was created in 1994, and for a larger amount of INRI, both a reception couple and a donor woman They were knownThe field is not the longest child in the world, because in 1992 there was a case similar to the donation of embryos, but it has other features.

This situation is so special that a newborn child He has a 30 -year -old sister and 10The field of his biological mother, from whom the eggs comes out, 62 years old, but his other mother, who gave birth to him, has 35. There are only 4 years more than the donated embryo.

It all began in 1994 when Linda Archerd She suffered an in vitro fertilization with her eggs and her husband’s sperm. Such a procedure has arisen 3 viable embryosOne of them went to Linda, who became pregnant and gave birth to a girl who is 30 years old today. Two others They are frozen for the future translationBut beautiful, and her husband divorced and never used embryos. What happened next is the history of medicine.

How did this donation of embryos happen?

After the divorce, Linda received guardians in the remaining two embryos. This is the benefit, but also responsibility. It was free to use them alone or with another couple, but in turn had to pay for service of cryoconservation, It became more and more expensive. He paid around 1000 dollars a year.

When Menopause came, he knew that he would no longer use these embryos, so he had to make a decision. According to statements reproduced in MIT Technology ReviewI did not want to sacrifice the embryos for the investigation and advocated the donation of their other couple, but wanted to meet her. If the donated embryo is realized, it would be his daughter’s brother. I needed to know who would take care of this.

Therefore, he turned to Catholic agency Which is dedicated to the contact of the donors of embryos and steams who cannot have children. These types of organizations consider embryos as born children, so the processes of the donation of embryos resemble acceptance. This includes a feature that parents know each other.

That’s how Linda met Lindsay and Tim PierceThe couple 35 and 34 -year -old, who could not have children and was looking for a donated embryo. They seemed good people, so he agreed to carry out the procedure. So was born July 26. Faddeus Daniel PierceThe new brother of his daughter.

Why is this case so special?

In addition to the fact that the donation of the embryos was made through the Catholic agency, this case is also very scientifically. The methods of the cryoponservation of embryos have changed greatly in recent decades. Therefore, even organizations for the adoption of Catholic embryos usually do not accept those that were preserved a long time ago. Linda was worth a lot of work to find the one that was ready to accept your proper donation for this reason.

And in the 90s, when she suffered an in vitro fertilization, it was normal to maintain embryos through freezingField on the other hand, since 2000 WitrificationThe field is the main difference in the speed with which the process is carried out, since the display in wide volume, Ultra -grapping freezingThe field contrary to what is happening with slow freezing, the use of vitrification is very rare for formation Crystals that can damage the cells of embryos. Consequently, under the brown, there is a high probability that it remains viable.

The embryo donated by Linda was not only saved with obsolete equipment. I also had a great frozen time. Therefore, this is a unique case that also had a beautiful happy ending. Child conceived 3 decades ago, which now remains in the hands of his new parents outside the media, which caused his birth. Science is fascinating.