Category: History of IVF
Five decades at Bourn Hall – friendship and family
Posted - March 15, 2021
Early IVF baby now campaigner for fertility education
Posted - January 13, 2021
‘Precious baby’ helped to secure the future of fertility treatment through the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990
Posted - December 1, 2020
Nobel Prize Medal awarded to IVF pioneer to be auctioned at Christie’s
Posted - June 18, 2020
The ‘start-up’ story of financing the world’s first IVF clinic
Posted - March 23, 2020
On International Women’s Day we remember Lesley Brown
Posted - March 5, 2020
Home of Patrick Steptoe, ‘Father of IVF’, gets a Blue Plaque
Posted - May 4, 2019
Jamie Facer-Childs: the world’s first twin ‘frostie’
Posted - March 21, 2019
Happy 40th Birthday Alastair MacDonald, the world’s first IVF boy
Posted - January 14, 2019
When I was your age something world-changing happened that shaped my life
Posted - August 24, 2018
Louise Brown celebrates her 40th birthday at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 25, 2018
The story of IVF: 6 million babies later celebrated at Science Museum
Posted - July 22, 2018
Jean Purdy IVF pioneer celebrated with memorial service
Posted - July 21, 2018
Louise Brown celebrates the life of Jean Purdy with her living legacy
Posted - July 20, 2018
IVF is 40 in 2018 – the treatment continues to improve
Posted - July 20, 2018
IVF is 40: First blastocyst created
Posted - July 1, 2018
Dr Kay Elder – ‘A life in Glass’
Posted - June 6, 2018
Icelandic couple’s emotional journey 30 years after IVF with frozen embryos
Posted - February 16, 2018
Robert Edwards, co-father of IVF, interviewed by Liz O’Donnell, an early Bourn Hall patient
Posted - May 26, 2017
Why me? Infertility and the stubborn Yorkshireman
Posted - May 23, 2017
First frozen embryo baby home from the cold
Posted - March 7, 2017
Baby, look at you now!
Posted - December 9, 2016
Photographer of world’s first IVF egg retires
Posted - September 23, 2016
Pioneering IVF patient returns to Bourn Hall
Posted - May 11, 2016
Louise Brown: “My life as the world’s first test-tube baby” – autobiography launched at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 23, 2015
Louise Brown is 36, Bourn Hall remembers IVF pioneers
Posted - July 25, 2014
Alastair MacDonald: The world’s first IVF boy celebrates 35th birthday
Posted - January 14, 2014
The Bourn Hall Legacy – 35 years of IVF
Posted - July 25, 2013
Tributes to Professor Sir Robert Edwards
Posted - April 12, 2013
Sad Loss Of Lesley Brown – First IVF Mother
Posted - June 20, 2012
You may know IVF history was made when Louise Brown became the world's first IVF baby as a result of our founders’ pioneering techniques back in 1978.![]()
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Today is Louise Brown’s birthday. We want to wish her, and all of our Bourn Hall babies a very Happy Birthday!! 🎂![]()
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Please comment and share any pictures of your own Bourn Hall babies. We are proud of every single one of you! ❤️![]()
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Happy Birthday Louise Brown first IVF baby - Bourn Hall Clinic
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Louise, the world's first 'test-tube' baby, was born on the 25th July 1978 as the result of IVF. Happy birthday Louise Brown have a good one.
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In 1978, Louise Brown – the first ‘test tube baby’ – was born following decades of pioneering work by our founders, Professor Robert Edwards and Dr Patrick Steptoe.![]()
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While we still continue our pioneering research today, we also aim to provide you with the best possible care while you complete your family with us. ![]()
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