26yo woman gives birth to daughter frozen as embryo for 24 years

Abortion wouldn’t exist if women were intelligent enough to use birth control. Let’s not put the cart before the horse.

So... have I got this right? They used the egg of a 18 month old, and fertilized it??? I mean maybe my reading skills are off, or I missed something, but that's how I understand it.

Why would they do that??? You can't know if there's fertility problems at that age. How would they even harvest the eggs of a child like that? I mean the eggs aren't even ripe yet. If I read properly... Than I'm mad as F*ck, because she didn't have any say, and this was done... just to see if it could be... the "because we can" mentality.

I have nothing against this procedure if it is done with the eggs, and sperm of adults with the consent of the adults contributing the dna material ... but a child??? Hell no.

Please smart people, please tell me I'm an idiot who can't read, and this was an adult's eggs.

No children were involved in the egg donation. They adopted a frozen embryo that was left over from someone else's fertility treatments.

Elsa

The day will come when women will be able to give birth to clones of themselves, and raise themselves... The horror...

So... have I got this right? They used the egg of a 18 month old, and fertilized it??? I mean maybe my reading skills are off, or I missed something, but that's how I understand it.

Why would they do that??? You can't know if there's fertility problems at that age. How would they even harvest the eggs of a child like that? I mean the eggs aren't even ripe yet. If I read properly... Than I'm mad as F*ck, because she didn't have any say, and this was done... just to see if it could be... the "because we can" mentality.

I have nothing against this procedure if it is done with the eggs, and sperm of adults with the consent of the adults contributing the dna material ... but a child??? Hell no.

Please smart people, please tell me I'm an idiot who can't read, and this was an adult's eggs.

So did the baby have freezer burn or was it ziploc fresh??

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A woman in Tennessee has given birth a baby daughter that was frozen as an embryo 24 years ago. It is believed to be a world record for frozen embryo to result in a successful birth.
Baby Emma Wren was born to parents Tina and Benjamin Gibson on November 25, local media WATE, citing the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), which supplied the embryo, reports.

Tina was born in 1991, her daughter was conceived just 18 months later, though the two were separated by an entire generation when the embryonic Emma was cryopreserved in 1992.


It's a cute little baby but at same time seems a bit creepy to me.

I am a father with an adopted child and you are correct. Medical treatments should always be the first option and adoption only the last resort. Sometimes medical science can't help. Our reason for adoption was infertility that could not be helped with in vitro methods...
fertilization and it takes years (in our case 5 years with constant running costs, training, and bureaucracy). Even then it's not certain that you get to adopt a child.

Because I have an adopted child (she's now 8, but was 5 when adopted by us) I've done a lot of research on the problems in adopted children. Typically the severe psychological problems directly related to the trauma of adoption (i.e. not inherent psychological issues which may occur due to abuse before adoption or naturally like in any child) are a result of poor handling of the child's care in the first couple of years after adoption.

It's a very delicate situation and it is imperative that the parents get well trained to recognize the signs of real trouble but at the same time don't burden the child with e.g. psychologist after perfectly normal reactions.

There is no cookie-cut solution as each child is different. Some kids fully embrace their new life from the start and don't even want to talk much about their pre-adoption life. You need to respect the child's wishes in this respect or you're hurting him.

Our child was the former. She eagerly and voluntarily preferred her new Finnish name over her original Indian name (still one of her legal names), learnt perfectly good Finnish in 7 months (quite a feat considering how difficult our language is), and refuses to talk in her native tongue which we know she still can do. She wanted to make a clear cut between her former and new lives. The only thing she misses is her former friends in India (now also adopted abroad), but fortunately we were able to contact one of the families and the kids are in contact over the net.

On the other hand, some kids need to process the transition fully and in depth with parents and/or professional help. In this case, the role of the parents is critical and the long lasting trauma results from botching this process.

The parents may not see the need for professional help, or they just don't recognize the special needs of an adopted child. For instance, they overload the kid with too many new things at the same time (too early to school, too many hobbies, too many new friends, too irregular daily schedule,...). You can't raise an adopted child in the same way as his/her peers. There is always a delay in the child's development, but they will catch up later on.

Above all the child needs is to feel SAFE and LOVED. Unexpected events are bad. The adopted children don't initially deal well with surprises, because routine is safety. Feeling safe also includes unlimited food, shelter and unconditional love even when misbehaving.

The child needs be given enough time to process his new life, so overstimulating the child is bad. Both parents need to be present, so a family where both parents are working is a very bad scenario. My wife is a housewife, but I still took months of unpaid leave to make sure our child gets to start her new life with her new father.

The parents should also be willing to swallow their pride and ask for help if in doubt. The early years as a family are critical. If you screw that up, you are going to end up with long term psychological problems. Many parents are blind to the problems, even as severe as the child hurting him/herself, and refuse to acknowledge them and ask for help. That's where the trouble often begins.

How long are the naps this kid takes?

baby name suggestion....

Birdseye? Swanson?

Wait till they find the Anunnaki embryos in stasis and try to impregnate someone with them.

This gives me the chills

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A woman in Tennessee has given birth a baby daughter that was frozen as an embryo 24 years ago. It is believed to be a world record for frozen embryo to result in a successful birth.
Baby Emma Wren was born to parents Tina and Benjamin Gibson on November 25, local media WATE, citing the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), which supplied the embryo, reports.

Tina was born in 1991, her daughter was conceived just 18 months later, though the two were separated by an entire generation when the embryonic Emma was cryopreserved in 1992.


It's a cute little baby but at same time seems a bit creepy to me.

A story about Tennessee on RT.


How was the daughter originally conceived? By a pedophile rape?

Highly suspicious.

Wait what?

Tina is the mother, she was born in 1991 and she is 26?

Emma is the baby that was frozen for 24 years?

So Emma, the baby egg, was removed when Tina, the mom, when Tina was 2?


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So the kid is older then the mother by my math. And my math is bad

i believe yes

2 years younger..though genetically where did the embryo even come from because from what little I understand concerning biology a 1 year old shouldn't produce eggs yet. And other questions

No no no...The parents are unrelated to whoever donated the embryo back in the day....
Baby Emma Wren was born to parents Tina and Benjamin Gibson on November 25, local media WATE, citing the National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), which supplied the embryo, reports.