LONDON, Jan. 15, 2006
World's 1st "Test-Tube Baby" Gives Birth
28-Year-Old Louise Brown Of England Has Baby Boy, Conceived Naturally
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Louise Brown, the first "test tube" baby in the world, celebrating her 25th birthday at Bourn Hall, Cambridgeshire, England in this July. 26, 2003 file photo, at the fertility clinic founded by the doctors who gave her life. (AP (file))
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The baby boy, Cameron John Mullinder, weighed just under 6 pounds when he was born Dec. 20 in Bristol. He was conceived naturally.
Louise Brown was born July 25, 1978. Three years ago she married Wesley Mullinder.
Louise Brown isn't the first test tube baby to give birth. That distinction was claimed by her sister Natalie in 1999, the AP reported.
Louise Brown was conceived by what was then ground-breaking in-vitro fertilization (IVF), which is now a common procedure. The likelihood of an infertile couple having a baby through IVF is now about one in five, about the same odds of natural conception by a fertile couple.
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