COULD a baby be just one year younger than its mother; apparently it has happened.
An Eastern Tennessee mother has given birth to an embryo that was donated by a US family and it has become the first child for a woman who would herself have been only one when the baby was conceived.
Emma Wren Gibson (below), a healthy baby girl, was thawed in Mar and transferred to mum Tina Gibson's uterus.
The faith-based National Embryo Donation Center provided the fertilised embryo, which doctors there refer to as "snow babies" because of how long they are kept frozen.
Santa Claus's image has undergone transformation from the hugely obese pipe-smoking beer-swilling 1900s model to the slightly more svelte milk and cookies-nibbling 2000s version.
The milk he drinks is said to be good for bone-building, said scientists at Rowan University, but his weight is still a concern in terms of hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and type 2 diabetes.
Authors of a stern rebuke encouraged him to shun at least some of those sweet treats left for him and join his reindeer in attacking the carrots.
Other factors in his longevity were identified as marriage, high activity and pet ownership.
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