Today is the birthday of Louise Brown, the first baby born out of the IVF procedure. She is 29 years old. Her parents had tried to have a baby for 9 years and when they went for IVF they didn't even realize that there had been no successful births as of yet. Well, they ended up with 2 babies from IVF and since then Louise has had a child of her own (with no assistance) and the number of 'test tube' babies has grown beyond counting.I cannot imagine what it would have felt like to be going through this stuff 25 or more years ago. There was so much that they didn't know. Now we are at a time when there are so many successes to look at, the rate of success is 40 & 50% and it is better understood even outside of the 'community'.
Even though we don't know each other, we live in different countries and our babies were born 28 years apart, I feel some kind of wierd connection. Maybe it's because someone had to be first so that we could be thousandths later. Who knows but whatever it is, we and our little test tube baby (who is almost 15 months old)are wishing Louise Brown a happy happy birthday.
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