Medical advances often took the world by some sort of surprise, with many reluctantly accepting or giving them a chance. The case of IVF was no different. The idea was fiercely resists about four decades ago.
Amerca’s first in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) baby, Elizabeth Carr who was born on 28 December 1981 in Norfolk, Virginia, is now a 40 years old woman.
At a point she was described as “test tube” baby by people who couldn't come to terms by the proceses that led to her arrival into the world.
Her birth then, recalled New York Post, attracted fanfare and controversy with a PBS film crew holed up in the delivery room and protesters raging outside the hospital.
“There was always media attention – so I knew I wasn’t born like everyone else,” Carr told The Post from her home outside Keene, NH, days before her milestone 40th birthday on Tuesday.
“My doctors were on each side of me, screening the documentary of my own birth with me — and explaining the science.”
That science was something of a mystery at the time, even to Carr’s own parents. But today it's widely accepted and celebrated.
Amerca’s first in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) baby, Elizabeth Carr who was born on 28 December 1981 in Norfolk, Virginia, is now a 40 years old woman.
At a point she was described as “test tube” baby by people who couldn't come to terms by the proceses that led to her arrival into the world.
Her birth then, recalled New York Post, attracted fanfare and controversy with a PBS film crew holed up in the delivery room and protesters raging outside the hospital.
“There was always media attention – so I knew I wasn’t born like everyone else,” Carr told The Post from her home outside Keene, NH, days before her milestone 40th birthday on Tuesday.
In fact, she first learned about her groundbreaking entrance into the world when she was around 6 or 7, at her doctor office with staffers watching the NOVA special on her birth.
“My doctors were on each side of me, screening the documentary of my own birth with me — and explaining the science.”
That science was something of a mystery at the time, even to Carr’s own parents. But today it's widely accepted and celebrated.
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