The world’s first test tube baby has given birth herself in Britain after conceiving naturally, the Sun newspaper reported Saturday. Louise Brown, 28, was photographed with a carrycot outside her home in Bristol, western England, and an unnamed friend told the paper that she and husband Wesley Mullinder, 37, were “over the moon”.
“It’s what they’ve always wanted,” the friend added.
The report did not say whether the child was a boy or girl. In 1978, Brown was the first baby ever born to parents who had undergone in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. Her father and mother, John and Lesley, had tried for a baby for nine years before turning to the new technique, pioneered by gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe and Cambridge University physiologist Robert Edwards, the Sun said. The couple also had a second test-tube baby – daughter Natalie, 23, who became the first ever IVF baby to give birth herself in 1999. |