Triplet ‘waiting in freezer’ born 11 years after sisters

ONE of three triplets conceived on the same day through IVF was born last month in Britain — 11 years after her twin sisters who say she was waiting “in the freezer” to be born.

The girls, daughters of Lisa and Adrian Shepherd, all come from the same round of fertility treatment and it is believed there is no other known case where such an age gap exists.

The British couple began treatment in 1998 after Ms Shepherd was diagnosed with medical conditions that made her chances of her becoming pregnant naturally slim. During the treatment at the Midland Fertility Clinic near Birmingham, doctors successfully fertilised 14 eggs with Mr Shepherd’s sperm. Two embryos were implanted with the remaining 12 placed into freezer storage.