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World's first test tube baby marries
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-08 08:55
The world's first test tube baby has married and says she wants a child of
her own.
Louise Brown, 26, wed Wesley Mullinder, 34, in a ceremony on Saturday.
Guest of honour at the wedding at the Church of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol,
was Dr Robert Edwards, who jointly invented the In-Vitro Fertilisation technique
which led to Louise's birth.
A delighted Louise said: "Yes, we are trying for a baby. It would be a dream
come true for both of us. We're keeping our fingers crossed."
Her birth on July 25, 1978, created headlines throughout the world and
followed a decade of research on finding ways to fertilise human eggs outside
the body.
More than one million births worldwide have resulted from the pioneering
technique.
The Bristol postal worker was born by caesarean section at the Royal Oldham
Hospital thanks to the efforts of Dr Edwards and the late Dr Patrick Steptoe, a
gynaecologist at the hospital.
In 1975, the two men succeeded in producing an IVF pregnancy. But the
pregnancy was ectopic, developing in a Fallopian tube instead of the womb, and
had to be terminated.
Two years later Edwards and Steptoe removed a single ripe egg from the ovary
of Louise's mother, Lesley, and fertilised it in a glass dish with sperm from
her husband. The resulting embryo was implanted back into Lesley's body, and she
became pregnant.
Lesley had tried for nine years to have a baby with husband John before the
successful IVF birth, and the couple later had their other daughter, Natalie,
through the same process.
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