'There is something mind-boggling about it,' the twins' father said. 'In a sense, they're our oldest children, even though they're our smallest children.'
In April 1992, Vanessa Williams'"Save the Best for Last" topped the Billboard 100, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton was running for the White House,"Who's the Boss?" aired its final episode, and the babies born to Rachel and Philip Ridgeway a couple of weeks ago were frozen as embryos.
"There is something mind-boggling about it," Philip Ridgeway said as he and his wife cradled their newborns in their laps at their home outside Portland, Oregon."I was 5 years old when God gave life to Lydia and Timothy, and he's been preserving that life ever since." "We've never had in our minds a set number of children we'd like to have," Philip said."We've always thought we'll have as many as God wants to give us, and ... when we heard about embryo adoption, we thought that's something we would like to do."
"Embryo adoption is not a legal 'adoption' at all, at least in the sense of a traditional adoption which occurs after birth," the National Embryo Donation Center says."However, the term allows all parties to conceptualize the process and eventual reality of raising a non-genetically related child." Embryo donation, she said, is a medical procedure."It's a way by which we take embryos from one couple or individual and then transfer them into another individual in order to build families."
"We weren't looking to get the embryos that have been frozen the longest in the world," Philip Ridgeway said."We just wanted the ones that had been waiting the longest." The Ridgeways assumed those listed with earlier donor numbers had been at the center the longest and tried to narrow their choice to those profiles.
She remembers getting teary-eyed and saying,"You just showed me a picture of my three children. I have to have them all."
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