Happy World IVF Day celebration in Javitri Test Tube Baby Centre

We celebrate World IVF Day today to commemorate the trio of obstetrician and Gynaecologist Dr. Patrick Steptoe, physiologist Robert Edwards, and embryologist and Nurse Jean Purdy, whose combined efforts brought about a breakthrough in medical science and gave the world its first IVF baby. Louise Joy Brown’s birth was nothing short of a miracle for her parents Lesley and John Brown. The couple who couldn’t conceive for nine years due to Lesley’s blocked fallopian tubes, were given hope for a joyous vision of a baby in their arms by their obstetrician Patrick Steptoe. The procedure involved removing a mature egg from one of her ovaries and combining it with her husband’s sperm in a petri dish. In case of Lesley, she ovulated naturally, which gave the researchers the one follicle they needed. Jean Purdy, took the aspirated follicle with the surrounding fluid to Edwards. The egg and sperm were kept together until they matured into an 8-cell embryo. Four days later, they transplanted it into Lesley’s uterus. On 25th July 1978, the couple welcomed a baby girl, later named Louise Joy Brown, who also found fame as the world’s first test tube (IVF) baby.