Twins set frozen egg record
Monica Zapotoczny, Guillermo Husak and their children
TWINS born from eggs frozen for a record 12 years have given hope to thousands of cancer survivors and women who delay conceiving to pursue their careers.
The babies, born to a 45-year-old woman who froze her eggs when she was 33, represent the longest storage of frozen human eggs resulting in a live birth. The previous record was seven years. Monica Zapotoczny and her husband Guillermo Husak, 44, had resigned themselves to never having children of their own, even adopting a sick child, after repeated failed attempts at IVF.
Last year the couple made a final attempt at IVF, with the stored eggs being defrosted and two viable embryos created using Husak’s sperm.
Zapotoczny became pregnant with non-identical twin girls, and in January Mercedes and Guadalupe were born by caesarean section at 38 weeks.
Embryos have been stored for up to 20 years to create a baby but eggs