It wasn’t his mother who gave birth to him! Test tube baby surprises himself
Throughout her childhood, Louise Brown proved that she was no different from other people.
“Is your daughter normal? Doesn’t she have two heads? strangers on the street asked Briton Leslie Brown, the first woman in the world to give birth with the help of IVF.
Today, the IVF procedure seems to be not a simple, but still a common procedure, and then, in the late 70s, the conception of a child outside the womb seemed a miracle,
something fantastic, akin to the novels of HG Wells. Imagine what a shock it was for society, politicians, and even more so for the church, the birth of Louise Brown — the first person from a test tube.
For women suffering from infertility, Mrs. Brown was a beacon of hope. They bombarded Leslie with cards of congratulations, which are still carefully kept.
But there were ominous messages from religious fanatics. One, for example, sent a package containing a plastic embryo and a broken test tube.
“One day my dad wrote me a letter saying that I had a soul and that a place in heaven was prepared for me,” recalled Louise, now 43 years old.
At one time, the girl had to go through hundreds of studies so that scientists doctors finally concluded: a child born with the help of IVF is no different from other people.
Louise was born on July 25, 1978, and since then this day has been celebrated as World Assisted Reproductive Technology Day.
