A US woman whose frozen embryos were rescued from a flooded fertility clinic weeks after Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans has given birth to a son Noah Markham.
She gave birth by Caesarean section on Tuesday. Her embryos were among 1,400 stored in canisters of liquid nitrogen retrieved by police in boats in 2005. Doctors had feared the embryos would be lost when the clinic was left without power and temperatures soared to more than 38C (100F). Seven other families are expecting babies from the saved embryos in 2007. Rebekah and Glen Markham had five embryos stored at the clinic, which helped them conceive their first-born Witt.
Mrs Markham said this was one of the few positive stories to come out of the disaster.
"There's so many bad stories that you hear from Katrina and even now, it affects people in a negative way. So to have something so miraculous and, you know, beautiful... I'm fine with it. It's a good Katrina story."
Mr Markham's choices of names originally included Duke and Nitro.
"Nitro could be liquid nitrogen, because that's what saved him," he said. "For a girl, I like Breeze."
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