AN american couple has made headlines after welcoming healthy twins born from embryos which were frozen over three decades ago.
Rachel and Philip Ridgeway from Portland, Oregon are believed to be the parents of babies born from the longest-frozen embryos to ever result in a live birth, with the new babies joining their four other children - all naturally conceived - who are aged 8, 6, 3 and almost 2.
The twins came from a total of five embryos which were created for an anonymous married couple using IVF, and were frozen on 22 Apr 1992.
They didn't end up using the embryos, and in 2007 donated them to the US National Embryo Donation Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the hope another family might be able to use them.
The Ridgeways were keen to grow their brood further, and specifically asked the Donation Center if they could be considered for "the ones that had been waiting the longest".
After being selected, attempts were made to thaw and then implant the five embryos, with two of them surviving and resulting in the new baby twins.
The parents of the now six-strong clutch of kids said "we've never had in our minds a set number of children we'd like to have...we've always thought we'll have as many as God wants to give us, and when we heard about embryo adoption, we thought that's something we would like to do".
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