The world’s “oldest baby” has been born. At least that’s what people are calling a child born in the US from an embryo that was frozen in 1994, reports MIT Technology Review.

Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born on July 26, 2025, but he was actually conceived in 1994, when Forrest Gump was in theaters and pagers were more common than cellphones.

The embryo came from Linda Archerd, now 62, who originally had four embryos created through IVF with her then-husband. One of those embryos became a daughter, who’s now 30 and a mom herself. The other three were frozen and stayed that way for more than three decades.

After a divorce, Archerd explored embryo “adoption,” an offshoot of IVF where the donor and recipient make a mutual decision as to who receives the embryos. She chose a white, Christian,

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