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Have you heard the news? Someone hit the big 4-0! Happy Birthday to you, Louise Brown! (Seems like just yesterday you looked just like this picture.)
Do you remember where you were when you heard about the birth of the World’s first “test tube” baby? Probably not. But I do.
I was 12 and just learning about reproduction, reading the newspaper in my parents’ brown, gold, orange and white classic 70’s kitchen, when I learned the sensational, seemingly sci-fi news. I remember thinking it was cool. Dad was intrigued. Mom was mortified.
Little did I know then how important that day in history would be in my own life. And how that very technology would be the answer to my own dream of becoming a mother some twenty plus years later.
Let’s celebrate Louise Brown’s birthday with a Q&A to honor the woman whose birth led us to our life’s work… and for some of us… to our own children.
So here are the questions:
- In what country was the World’s first IVF Baby, Louise Brown, born?
- Give the last names of Louise Brown’s mother’s two IVF doctors?
- In what year was Louise born?
- Was she an only child?
- Was Louise’s first child conceived naturally or through IVF?
- Louise is not the first IVF baby to have her own baby, but Louise is related to the first IVF baby to have her own baby. What is the woman’s name and what is their relationship?
- Who was America’s first IVF baby?
So…any smarty pants IVF historians out there? Let’s see what you’ve got!
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