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After years of failed fertility treatments, Kelly Burke, 45, realized she was running out of options to get pregnant.
But the NASA research scientist desperately wanted to be a mom, so she turned to a more unusual method: she adopted four embryos from another couple, embryos that had been frozen 19 years previously after an IVF procedure.
Doctors told her there was only a 60 to 65 percent chance that a 19-year-old embryo would implant successfully—but amazingly, the procedure was a success, and nine months ago, Burke gave birth to a healthy son, Liam James. Her doctors believe that the embryo was the second oldest cryopreserved embryo in history.
But the NASA research scientist desperately wanted to be a mom, so she turned to a more unusual method: she adopted four embryos from another couple, embryos that had been frozen 19 years previously after an IVF procedure.
Doctors told her there was only a 60 to 65 percent chance that a 19-year-old embryo would implant successfully—but amazingly, the procedure was a success, and nine months ago, Burke gave birth to a healthy son, Liam James. Her doctors believe that the embryo was the second oldest cryopreserved embryo in history.
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