Birth of the first IVF baby, Louise Joy Brown
Louise Joy Brown, the world's first in vitro fertilization (IVF), was born July 25, 1978. She was normal, except for the fact that she had been conceived outside her mother's body.
The physicians, Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards, took an egg from Lesley, Louise's mother, and fertilized it in a laboratory vessel, with sperm from John, the baby's father. Two days later, the embryo was implanted in Lesley Brown's womb. By the time Louise was 21, thousands of women had conceived with the help of IVF techniques.
Resource:
Dateline. Sydney Millenium House P/L, 2006
Louise Joy Brown, the world's first in vitro fertilization (IVF), was born July 25, 1978. She was normal, except for the fact that she had been conceived outside her mother's body.
The physicians, Dr. Patrick Steptoe and Dr. Robert Edwards, took an egg from Lesley, Louise's mother, and fertilized it in a laboratory vessel, with sperm from John, the baby's father. Two days later, the embryo was implanted in Lesley Brown's womb. By the time Louise was 21, thousands of women had conceived with the help of IVF techniques.
Resource:
Dateline. Sydney Millenium House P/L, 2006
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