Twins born in the US from embryos frozen 30 years ago

Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway were born on 31 October from embryos which were frozen on 22 April 1992 – at a time when George HW Bush was the American president and John Major the British prime minister.

The embryos were initially created for an anonymous married couple and were kept at a fertility laboratory before being donated to the national centre in 2007, CNN reported.

Philip Ridgeway, the father of the twins, was aged five when the embryos were created and said: “There is something mind-boggling about it.

“I was five years old when God gave life to Lydia and Timothy, and he’s been preserving that life ever since.

“In a sense, they’re our oldest children, even though they’re our smallest children.”

Philip and Rachel Ridgeway have four other children aged between two and eight.

In 1992, the biological mother was a 34-year-old egg donor while the father was aged in his 50s.