first Test Tube Baby
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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FIRST TEST TUBE BABY
BY GABRIELLA AND LAURA
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Lesley Brown, the mother of the world’s first “test-tube baby” — Louise Brown, born July 25, 1978 — died on June 6 in Bristol, England. At 11:47 p.m. on July 25, 1978, a five-pound 12-ounce baby girl was born. The baby girl, named Louise Joy Brown, had blue eyes and blond hair and seemed healthy. Still, the medical community and the world were preparing to watch Louise Brown to see if there were any abnormalities that couldn't be seen at birth.
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A laparoscopy is a small thin tube with viewing lens that gets inserted in the navel. This allows the physician to see on a video monitor inside the uterus to locate the ovaries. The typical IVF cycle begins with drug treatment designed to control ovulation. One common method is to take five days of nasally administered gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue to shut down the ovaries, followed by ten days of injections of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) designed to spur the production of multiple eggs.
Since the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilization has evolved into a highly sophisticated lab procedure. Now, scientists are going back to basics and testing a simpler and cheaper method.
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