Largest gap between test-tube births

Laina Beasley (USA) was conceived in a test tube along with her siblings Jeffrey and Carleigh. She was then kept in suspended animation for nearly 13 years, as a two-celled embryo, before her birth in Santa Rosa, California, USA on 13 May 2005. From left to right: Jeffrey (brother), Debbie (mother), Laina, Kent (father) and Carleigh (sister). 13 May 2005, Santa Rosa, California, USA --- The Beasleys include dad Kent, 13-year-olds Jeffrey and Carleigh, mom Debbie and Laina, 5 months. Conceived in a test tube along with her almost 13-year-old fraternal twins, little Laina Beasley is just five months old, having spent the intervening years in a state of suspended animation as a frozen two-celled embryo. Her fraternal twins (they are actually fraternal quadruplets, having lost a sibling during their mother's pregnancy) a sister and a brother, Jeffrey and Carleigh, who were conceived at the same time as Laina. Jeffrey and Carleigh are about to enter high school, and her oldest sister is already in college. Laina is something of a medical first, fertility specialists say: the longest documented case of an embryo that has been frozen and resulted in a successful birth. --- Image by © Chris Stewart/San Francisco Chronicle/Corbis Source: Corbis