54-Year-Old Greek Woman Gives Birth From 22-Year-Old Embryo
Christina Rapti-Tzelepi delivered a healthy baby girl after IVF with a 22-year-old embryo, while Greece’s age limit for the procedure capped her at 54.
- On Wednesday, Genesis Athens Clinic announced that 54-year-old Christina Rapti-Tzelepi gave birth to a healthy daughter using an embryo cryopreserved on March 17, 2004.
- Following the October 2025 death of their 21-year-old son, Rapti-Tzelepi and her husband, Konstantinos Raptis, decided to revisit embryos they had preserved two decades prior.
- Gynecologist Konstantinos Pantos, Secretary General of the Greek Society of Reproductive Medicine, called the birth "a particularly important clinical and scientific development," emphasizing medicine must balance rules with humanity.
- Raptis has publicly called for lifting Greece's IVF age limit, arguing that "older women have an immeasurable capacity to offer mature, conscious and unconditional love."
- Although the family holds nine additional embryos, current Greek law prevents their use, while the 22-year cryopreservation duration remains well below the 31-year world record.
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Cristina Rapti-Tzelepi, 54, holds her three-day-old daughter, Georgia, as her husband, Constantinos Raptis, 60, stands in the background at a private maternity clinic in Athens, Greece, Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)By DEREK GATOPOULOS ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Out of their darkest moment, a Greek couple managed to make a new start with a baby born this week. Doing so...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Out of their darkest moment, a Greek couple managed to make a new start with a baby born this week. Doing so meant using one of her decades-old embryos and racing to beat a government deadline. Just months after their 21‑year‑old son died in a road crash in October, Cristina Rapti‑Tzelepi, now 54, and her husband made the decision to pursue another attempt using an embryo frozen for 22 years. Rapti-Tzelepi was running up ag…
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Out of their darkest moment, a Greek couple managed to make a new start with a baby born this week. Doing so meant using one of her decades-old embryos and racing to beat a government deadline. Just months after their 21‑year‑old son died in a road crash in October, Cristina Rapti‑Tzelepi,...
After tragedy, a Greek couple welcomes a daughter born from an embryo
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Out of their darkest moment, a Greek couple managed to make a new start with a baby born this week. Doing so meant using one of her decades-old embryos and racing to beat
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