Man’s Sperm Still Potent After 20 Years
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File photo. Stockbyte/Thinkstock(LONDON) — Who knew that something frozen back in the 1980s would produce so much joy two decades later?
In 1987, Richard Pott was 21 and suffering from testicular cancer. Doctors at the time recommended that he freeze his sperm in the event he wanted to have children down the road.
That road popped up not long ago when Pott and his wife, Rebecca, tried to conceive a second child. When the usual methods failed, Mrs. Pott said she and her husband turned to his ”rainy day sperm” from 1987. Through in vitro fertilization, three embryos were made and frozen before doctors transferred them to the womb.
This “double freezing” finally led to Vivienne Pott, now 13 months. One day, she can say she was the product of the oldest sperm ever to create a child in Britain.
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