A healthy test tube baby was born in China on Wednesday from an embryo which was frozen 12 years ago.
The little lad was delivered at Tangdu Hospital, Shaanxi Province, after surviving as a frozen embryo for more than a decade.
According to China Daily, a 40-year-old woman, who suffered from polycystic ovary syndrome and blocked fallopian tubes, had her embryos frozen back in 2003.
Director of Tangdu Hospital reproductive medicine center, Wang Xiaohong, said: "The success rate of implanted thawed embryos is more than 40 percent in our hospital, so doctors usually place more than one embryo at a time."
The woman gave birth to her first son back in 2004 and when China dropped its one-child policy last year, she decided to have a second child.
The baby's dad said: "Our first boy is 12 years old now. The purpose of freezing the embryos was to have a second child some day, and luckily, we succeeded."
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