Test tube baby

Test tube baby is a catchphrase used to describe a child who was conceived through artificial insemination .

history

The first child conceived in this way , Louise Joy Brown , was born on July 25, 1978 in Oldham, England (near Manchester ). The second, Alastair MacDonald, was also born in the UK on January 14, 1979. The third, Candice Reed, was born in Australia on June 23, 1980. Elizabeth Carr was born on December 28, 1981 in Norfolk, Virginia, the first child so conceived in the United States.

The first German “test tube baby” Oliver W. was born on April 16, 1982 at the University Hospital Erlangen . The doctor in charge was Dr. Siegfried Trotnow . After the success, the clinic reported 560 women in the Federal Republic who also wanted to have a child in this way. According to its own information, the clinic could only treat 60 women.

In 1985 the first "test tube triplets " were born in Germany (Women's Clinic of the University of Munich, Maistraße).

Multiple probability

Because up to three fertilized egg cells are inserted into the uterus per treatment, an average of 18 percent of women have twins and two percent triplets.

distribution

From April 1982 to April 2002 around 100,000 children were born in Germany after in vitro fertilization .

In 2007, the number of births worldwide through artificial insemination was estimated to be over three million.

Honor

In October 2010 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to the British scientist Robert G. Edwards, born in 1925 . The Vatican sharply criticized the award. The British research on in vitro fertilization (IVF) had made the birth of test tube babies possible.

See also

• In vitro fertilization
• Reproductive medicine
• infertility

Web links

Wiktionary: Test tube baby  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Documentary : Baby à la Carte. France, 2017, 91 min., Directed by Thierry Robert. In: Arte on October 10, 2017 (online until December 9, 2017).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} spiegel.de test tube baby Oliver will come of age on April 12, 2000 ; Retrieved April 21, 2011
2. ↑ kna: Life out of the test tube - 30 years of artificial insemination. In: badische-zeitung.de, Nachrichten, Panorama, April 14, 2012 (April 24, 2012)
3. ↑ nobelprize.org. Retrieved October 4, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Focus online. Retrieved October 4, 2010 .