Parents of world’s oldest baby reveal how they will tell him

January 6, 2026 by salah

“We went into different Christian adoption agencies and found Nightlight Christian Adoptions, which had a programme called Snowflakes, which is embryo adoption.

“We had never heard of this, but we thought ‘why not’? The timeline is shorter than international or domestic adoption and the price is lower, too. We’d only been in the programme for two years and we have a baby.”

Ms Pierce told MIT Technology Review her family thought “it’s like something from a sci-fi movie”.

Thaddeus’s embryo is believed to be the longest that has been frozen before resulting in a successful birth. The previous record – as per BBC – was held by a pair of twins born in 2022 from embryos frozen in 1992.Continue reading…