Defining Moments - #1

[CarolinaMom]

Anybody remember this? I do, somewhat. I was only three when this occurred.

July 25, 1978: First 'test tube baby' born

The birth of the world's first "test tube baby" has been announced in Manchester.
Louise Brown was born shortly before midnight in Oldham and District General Hospital.
Weighing 5lb 12oz (2.61 kg) the baby was delivered by caesarean section because her mother, Lesley Brown, was suffering from toxaemia.

Louise Brown celebrated her 21st birthday in 1999, by which time 300,000 women worldwide had conceived through IVF.
She now works as a nursery nurse in Bristol.
Louise's 17-year-old sister, Natalie, also born through IVF, became the first test tube baby to give birth - naturally - in 1999.
The success rate for IVF treatment has remained at 17%.
Doctors say social rather than medical factors are the major determinant of success. More than 70% of IVF clinics are in the UK and 80% of them charge £3,000 for each cycle of treatment. The process has attracted concern because embryos have been mixed up in the laboratory and the chance of multiple IVF births increased in the 1990s from one in 200 to one in 20.

 

[CarrieAg93]

I don't remember hearing about it when I was young, but I was only 7 in 1978 so I probably didn't understand anything about it.

 

[lucypevensie]

I remember hearing about it on the news. When I asked what it meant the answer I was given gave me the idea that they were growing babies in labs in glass tubes. Don't ask me what happened when they outgrew the tube - that question never occurred to me.

 

[ranyhyn]

I vaguely remember it as a child. I was too young to understand what it all meant. I did just recently read something about her in the news though. Can't remember what exactly... ehehe...

 

[llghoney]

I don't remember hearing about it til I was a little older & not knowing what it was really all about.

 

[CarolinaMom]

It must have been the baby's birthday one year, because I don't really remember the birth, but I do remember raising some questions to my mother about why she was born from a tube.

 

[Oblivious]

I don't get to say this very often anymore, but I was too young to remember that one!

 

[JPPT1974]

I don't get to say this very often anymore, but I was too young to remember that one!

Yeah I know what you mean my friend!

 

[WannaWitness]

Anybody remember this? I do, somewhat. I was only three when this occurred.

July 25, 1978: First 'test tube baby' born

The birth of the world's first "test tube baby" has been announced in Manchester.
Louise Brown was born shortly before midnight in Oldham and District General Hospital.
Weighing 5lb 12oz (2.61 kg) the baby was delivered by caesarean section because her mother, Lesley Brown, was suffering from toxaemia.

Louise Brown celebrated her 21st birthday in 1999, by which time 300,000 women worldwide had conceived through IVF.
She now works as a nursery nurse in Bristol.
Louise's 17-year-old sister, Natalie, also born through IVF, became the first test tube baby to give birth - naturally - in 1999.
The success rate for IVF treatment has remained at 17%.
Doctors say social rather than medical factors are the major determinant of success. More than 70% of IVF clinics are in the UK and 80% of them charge £3,000 for each cycle of treatment. The process has attracted concern because embryos have been mixed up in the laboratory and the chance of multiple IVF births increased in the 1990s from one in 200 to one in 20.

I was too young to remember it happening, but I had read about it in "Guinness Book of World Records".

 

[JPPT1974]

Too young to remember this too
But I remember reading about the
First person to get the articial heart
In the late seventies or early eighties!

 

[CarolinaMom]

Oh yeah! I remember that too.