First Test Tube Babies

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The first test tube baby was performed in 1977 between parents Lesley and John Brown. Test tube babies are we're the doctors take the egg from the Woman and fertilize the egg with sperm in a tube outside of the body, then place it back into the Mother. The doctors that performed this procedure on Lesley were Dr. Steptoe and Dr. Edwards. When: Conceived 1977, Born July 25, 1978 Where: Oldham and District General Hospital in Lancashire, England Why: Lesley Brown suffered from infertility because of blocked fallopian tubes. How: A mature egg was removed from one of Lesley’s ovaries and combined with her husband’s sperm in a laboratory dish to form an embryo. A few days later the embryo was implanted in her uterus. The very first test tube

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