World's First "Test Tube Baby" Born July 25,1978

On July 25,1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world's first baby to be conceived via in vitro fertilization (IVF) is born at Oldham and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents Lesley and Peter Brown

                                     Louise Joy Brown with her parents Lesley and Peter Brown

Before giving birth to Louise, Lesley Brown had suffered years of infertility due to blocked fallopian tubes. In November 1977, she underwent the then-experimental IVF procedure. A mature egg was removed from one of her ovaries and combined in a laboratory dish with her husband’s sperm to form an embryo.The embryo then was implanted into her uterus a few days later

The Browns had a second daughter, Natalie, several years later, also through IVF

 In May 1999, Natalie became the first IVF baby to give birth to a child of her own. The child’s conception was natural, easing some concerns that female IVF babies would be unable to get pregnant naturally

In December 2006, Louise Brown, the original "test tube baby," gave birth to a boy, Cameron John Mullinder, who also was conceived naturally

Robert Edwards(Sep 27,1925 -April 10,2013)the British Nobel Laureate(in physiology or medicine in 2010) who pioneered the development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF ) that led to the birth of the world’s first “test tube baby” , died on Wednesday April 10,2013 after a long illness at the age of 87.

Sir Robert, who founded the world’s first IVF clinic at Bourn Hall in Cambridge in 1980 and developed IVF with Dr. Patrick Steptoe, started work on fertilisation in the 1950s

In a laboratory in Cambridge, eastern England, in 1968, he first saw life created outside the womb in the form of a human blastocyst, an embryo that has developed for five to six days after fertilisation

The first test tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in July 1978 at Oldham General Hospital, Lancashire

 Louise Mullinder (formerly Brown)and Robert Edwards