Louise Joy Brown
Louise Joy Brown (born July 25, 1978 in Oldham ) is a British woman . She is the first human being conceived in vitro , so she was the first test- tube baby .
Life
Louise Joy Brown was born by caesarean section at 11:47 p.m. local time . She had a birth weight of 2600 g and a body length of 49 cm. Earlier in the mother Lesley Brown († June 6, 2012) was by the British gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and physiologist Robert Edwards an artificial insemination has been carried out.
The London mass newspaper Daily Mail had bought the exclusive rights from Louise's mother Lesley and reported in detail about the birth.
Louise Brown avoids the public. She “doesn't feel like something special”, is “just completely normal”, doesn't like to give interviews and has nothing exciting to tell. Nevertheless, she spent her 25th birthday in Bristol in 2003 together with 1,000 other people who had been conceived through artificial insemination.
On September 4, 2004, she married Wesley Mullinder in St. Mary's Church in Bristol. On December 21, 2006, Louise Brown gave birth to a child naturally after an equally natural conception.
In February 2017 she addressed the European Parliament.
An event on her 40th birthday in Barcelona in 2018 was attended by around 12,000 medical professionals. She has given speeches in New York and Tokyo.
She works as an office worker in a freight forwarding company and lives with her family in Bristol. Her two sons (as of July 2018) were conceived and born naturally.
Web links
- Reproductive Technologies Worldwide . Workshop at the Humboldt University Berlin on the occasion of the 30th birthday of Louise Joy Brown; Retrieved July 25, 2008
- Katja Iken: 30 years of test-tube babies - the girl from the petri dish . one day , July 23, 2008; Retrieved July 25, 2008
- Frank Heinz Diebel: Artificial insemination: the world's first test tube baby turns 30 . ( Memento of October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Welt Online , July 25, 2008; Retrieved July 25, 2008
- Louise Joy Brown: The first test tube baby is 25 . Austrian Broadcasting, 2003; Retrieved July 25, 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrea Westhoff: A completely normal baby. Deutschlandradio calendar sheet, July 25, 2008
- ↑ The first test tube baby turns 40 . Hamburger Abendblatt, July 24, 2018; accessed November 10, 2018.
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SURNAME | Brown, Louise Joy |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British woman, first test tube baby in the world |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1978 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldham |