Benjamin and Tina Gibson believed they would never be able to have children so the Tennessee couple chose to foster.
After about a year, they discovered they may be able to conceive with the help of the U.S. National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tenn.
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“It was so quick and honestly we didn’t know if it would even work,” Tina Gibson told NBC News. ”It was such just a whim.”
In March, she had an embryo implanted, and after a week and a half she discovered she was pregnant.
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“The longest 11 days of my life,” she explained.
But after the couple discovered the implant was successful, the Gibsons were shocked by another piece of news from the donation center.
Their baby had actually been cryopreserved in 1992, the same year Tina Gibson was born.
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“Just so you know, this is going to be world record and I was like what?” Tina Gibson said. “Yeah they were like, ‘it’s been frozen for 24 years’ and I was like, ‘what’?”
Baby Emma Wren was born on November 25, 2017. She is the longest-frozen embryo to successfully come to birth.
She joked that she and her child could have been besties growing up.
“If this embryo had been born when it was supposed to we could have been best friends, we could have been friends, that’s been the going joke, it’s just so crazy,“ she told CBS News.
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