A Baby Boy Has Been Born From The World’s Oldest Sperm (Photos)

Alex Powell, a man who decided to freeze
his sperm 23 years ago, has finally used it
to get his first child.
The product of that sperm, Xavier Powell, a
toddler who is just six-months-old, has
even made it into the Guinness World
Records thanks to his father’s decision two
decades ago.

According to Mirror Online, Alex, from
Australia, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s
lymphoma at the age of 15.
He was told he needed to start
chemotherapy immediately and made the
decision to have his sperm frozen as the
treatment was likely to leave him infertile .
That was 23-years ago and now the dad is
celebrating his son’s first few months of
life with his wife Vi.
It was Alex’s stepmum who convinced him
to go ahead with the procedure after
worrying about the effects of cancer
treatment on her stepson’s body.
Two decades later, Alex met his wife Vi
and the loved-up pair decided they would
like to have children.



In 2013, the couple began IVF in the hope
that they would be able to conceive a baby.
It took one year of IVF for Xavier to be
conceived and he was eventually born on
June 17, 2015.
Alex told Nine News: “For me, it’s that sort
of feeling in life you want to relive every
moment if you can.”
Before Xavier, a baby had previously been
conceived in the UK using sperm frozen for
21 years.
There is technically no upper limit on how
long sperm should be stored for but it is
usually between seven and 10 years.