Meet China's oldest new born: Woman gave birth to baby girl using an embryo frozen 18 YEARS ago


A baby who had been in the making for nearly two decade was successfully born in China this week. 

The little girl, who is yet to be named, was conceived using an embryo frozen 18 years ago by a hospital in Shanghai.


Weighing 3,300 grams (116.4 ounces), she is the first child of a 45-year-old woman who gave birth on June 27 in the province of Jiangsu, eastern China, reported the People's Daily Online.

According to the article, the birth of the baby broke the national record as she was conceived with the old frozen embryo so far in China.

Her mother, named Huang Qiong, decided to have the embryo frozen in 1998 after she had trouble getting pregnant.

Huang, who was 27 years old at the time, had been diagnosed with blocked Fallopian tubes and was undergoing fertility treatment at the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai.
18 years in the making: Huang Qiong, 45, had her embryos frozen in Shanghai in 1998 hoping for a future child
She underwent two frozen embryo transfers, but failed both times.
She had also failed one fresh embryo transfer.

A frustrated Huang decided to halt the IVF treatment and focus on her work.
Last year, one of Huang's friends, who was treated at the same hospital, got pregnant with a set of twins. 

This prompted the middle-aged Huang to try for a baby again. 

She re-started her IVF treatment at the beginning of 2015, using the embryos which had been frozen in liquid nitrogen in minus 196 degrees Celsius, the report said.

In November, she was thrilled to be informed that she had fallen pregnant.
On Monday, she delivered a healthy baby girl in her native Jiangsu Province.
Hopeful: Her embryos had been frozen in liquid nitrogen in minus 196 degrees Celsius at a Shanghai hospital 
The birth of Huang's baby broke the national record set just two weeks ago by a mother from Guangzhou, capital of southern China Guangdong Province.

The 33-year-old woman gave birth to a boy on June 15 using an embryo frozen 12 years ago.

While the Shanghai Health Bureau suggests human embryos should be frozen for up to five years, the hospital in Shanghai has promised to keep freezing embryos indefinitely as long as parents do not sign an agreement to give them up.

China has witnessed an increase in IVF treatment after the central government abolished the nation-wide mandatory one-child policy in January 2016. 


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