21-year-old sperm produces baby for IVF couple in USA

April 10, 2009 by Baby Chums
Filed under News, Pregnancy

A North Carolina, USA, couple welcomed a baby last month that was born via IVF, (In vitro fertilization) from her father’s frozen 21-year-old sperm.

Reproductive Endocrinology Associates of Charlotte (REACH) disclosed on Thursday the birth of a baby girl conceived through IVF using sperm frozen for 21 years.

Chris Biblis, 38, the babies father, was treated for leukemia between the ages of 13 and 18. In 1987, when he was 16, Biblis family encouraged him to freeze his sperm, in spite of the fact that advancements in treating male infertility did not yet exist.

Biblis, who has been cancer-free for 20 years, sought fertility treatments at REACH with his wife Melodie, 33, in 2008. Baby Stella Biblis was born in excellent health on March 4th.

REACH founder and fertility specialist Dr. Richard L. Wing said; “They achieved pregnancy on their first cycle of intracytoplasmic sperm injection used in conjunction with IVF, a now-routine procedure for male infertility, using her eggs and his frozen sperm.”

Scientists first injected a sperm cell into a human egg in a lab setting in 1992.

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