Louise Brown the first child born from artificial insemination
Louise Brown and her parents mother is Lesley on her 21 st birthday Born on July 26 1978 Louise Joy Brown was born in Oldham General Hospital She was the first test tube baby Her birth was the result of a collaboration between Oldham gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and two Cambridge doctors Robert Edwards and Barry Bavister They developed a technique by which an egg taken from a woman s ovary could be fertilized in a test tube and then returned to a womb
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