Emily Brown
A set of twins who made history by being frozen for 30 years before they were even born have just celebrated their first birthday.
While most other babies are busy crying and wondering what the hell has just happened to them after being born, Timothy and Lydia Ridgeway were busy breaking a record.
Though, to be fair, they were probably also confused and crying while doing so.
The twins were actually conceived in 1992, but they were frozen as embryos after their biological parents gave them to the National Embryo Donation Center.
When the twins were frozen, their adoptive mom Rachel was just three years old.
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It wasn't until 30 years later that the embryos were adopted by Rachel and Philip Ridgeway, and the twins actually went through the process of growing into babies.
Rachel enjoyed a relatively straightforward pregnancy, before giving birth on 31 October, 2022.
The babies would be 31 years old if they were born nine months after being conceived, but instead they've just turned one.
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The parents are planning to celebrate the occasion today (1 November), as they treat the twins to a chocolate cake and balloons.
"It's going to be messy," Rachel told Insider.
Rachel admitted that her twins are now 'mini celebrities' after their 'mind-boggling' story went viral last year.
The 35-year-old mom, who is a devout Christian, said it was 'God's will' that she and Philip adopted the twins to expand their family of six in Vancouver, Washington.
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In another interview with Insider last year, the mom explained that the biological father of the twins died of ALS.
"These embryos are often overlooked because they were donated by parents who had a known history of certain genetic disorders," she said.
"We found out that these kids are rarely looked at because many parents coming into the process are wondering what they could have."
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However, Rachel and Philip didn't think twice when they learned of the father's health condition, explaining: "We decided that we were going to look for children that had, in one sense, been waiting the longest because they might not be perfect.
"They have a potential flaw which, to us, seems silly because all of us have potential flaws," the mom continued. "All of us have the possibility of developing any number of illness, disease, or whatever it may be."
Rachel added that even if the children did have ALS, it was 'not going to change them as human beings."