Category: History of IVF
45 years of IVF bringing ‘Joy’ to people around the world
Posted - July 25, 2023
Louise Brown celebrates World Embryologist Day at Bourn Hall
Posted - July 24, 2023
Theramex brings Spanish IVF consultants to Bourn Hall, the birthplace of IVF
Posted - May 10, 2023
A message for ‘quietly determined’ women on a fertility journey
Posted - March 17, 2023
Australian IVF campaigner and Bourn Hall baby turns 40
Posted - January 19, 2023
Milestones of IVF: 2002 – Bourn Hall introduces the first egg sharing programme
Posted - December 28, 2022
Milestones in IVF: 1995 – the birth of Bourn Hall’s first baby conceived through ICSI
Posted - December 15, 2022
Milestones in IVF: 1990 – the first Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act was passed
Posted - December 13, 2022
Milestones in IVF: 1985 – the first baby born from a frozen blastocyst
Posted - December 7, 2022
Milestones in IVF: 1978 – the birth of the world’s first IVF baby
Posted - December 2, 2022
Milestones in IVF: 1972 – celebrating 50 years of the British Fertility Society
Posted - November 29, 2022
Milestones in IVF: 1968 – the first human fertilization outside the body
Posted - November 25, 2022
How IVF has changed our lives
Posted - November 2, 2022
Happy birthday Louise Brown
Posted - July 25, 2022
Jean Purdy, IVF pioneer and co-founder of Bourn Hall
Posted - March 25, 2022
First Christmas for Bourn Hall grandchild
Posted - December 17, 2021
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
Bear, aged 4, was the first baby born following treatment at our new, purpose-built clinic in Wickford. ![]()
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Bear’s parents, Leonie and Chris, had been trying to conceive for four years and Leonie fell pregnant on the couple’s first round of IVF. ![]()
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Two years later, the couple conceived naturally and, in 2022, Bear’s sister Cecilia was born.![]()
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Read more about Leonie and Chris’ story here: moredetails.uk/3uI8nIw
Thank you to Katie for sending us this photo of Jack and Oliver.![]()
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She said: “Our family is now complete thanks to Bourn Hall.”![]()
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Alfie, aged 5, was born just as our new Essex clinic opened five years ago. ![]()
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He was one of the IVF babies at a celebration of the clinic’s fifth birthday, when some of our Bourn Hall families came to mark the occasion with Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby.![]()
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Alfie’s parents, Amanda and Michael were treated at the Wickford satellite clinic while the new clinic was being built.![]()
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Amanda has a condition that affects her ability to conceive and thought she would never be able to have a baby.![]()
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Read more about Amanda and Michael’s story here: moredetails.uk/3Tgf0Ml
Embryology is the branch of medicine related to the study of embryos. ![]()
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Our team of embryologists now use time-lapse technology that allows them to see embryos in situ, removing the need to disturb them, yet still providing further insights into embryo development.![]()
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Our embryologists’ development of specialist IVF procedures have made the techniques accessible to many more patients.![]()
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Find out more about the tests and treatments available here: moredetails.uk/3nJVwh9
Fertility preservation is a process that involves freezing eggs, sperm or embryos for future use. ![]()
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This may be appropriate for you if, for example, you’re about to undergo cancer treatment, you’re making a lifestyle choice, or have a change of circumstances.![]()
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For instance, if you are about to have a vasectomy, but are feeling this is a bit final for you, then freezing your sperm before the procedure could be a good option to consider.![]()
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Find out more about fertility preservation options here: moredetails.uk/3sflde3 ![]()
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Or book a free ‘Discovery’ call to discuss your queries with our team: moredetails.uk/IVFBcontact
