Sperm frozen 21 yrs = healthy baby girl
April 9, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Freezing sperm is one way that men with cancer can preserve their fertility. While many men with cancer are able to father children the natural way, you never know 
how chemotherapy or radiation is going to affect you. This is why freezing your sperm is really not a bad idea at all.
According to a press release issued by the Reproductive Endocrinology Associates of Charlotte:
Chris Biblis, 38, of Charlotte, was treated for leukemia from age 13 to 18. In 1987, at 16, his family encouraged him to freeze his sperm, even though there was no treatment for male infertility at the time. It was not until that 1992 the first baby was born from intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), a breakthrough fertility technology in which scientists inject a carefully selected healthy sperm cell into a human egg in the lab.
Stella Biblis, who was born March 4, 2009, was born as a result of that frozen sperm that was 21 years old, tying Madison Decker was born in August 2008 as a result of her dad’s sperm that was frozen 21 years before.
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