The Founding Papers · FP·09 · 1985
1985: A baby girl from a frozen embryo
From Melbourne came the news that a healthy baby girl had been born from embryos frozen for eight weeks.
The story
This short paper reports a birth. Two thawed embryos were transferred, and a normal baby girl was delivered.
The authors also explained why freezing mattered so much. It could improve the chances of conception, reduce the risk of multiple pregnancies, and offer a future family to women whose fertility was threatened by illness.
“A normal baby girl was delivered after the successful transfer of two thawed embryos which had been frozen for eight weeks.”From the paper's abstract
The paper
Birth after Transfer of Cryopreserved Embryos
B. G. Downing, L. R. Mohr, A. O. Trounson, L. E. Freemann, C. Wood
Medical Journal of Australia 1985;142(7):409 to 411. Published 1 April 1985. Read the paper.
How we know
Abstract read in PubMed and Europe PMC, 6 October 2026. The full text was not read, so the baby is not named here.
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