Elizabeth Carr was the first IVF birth in the USA. She was born on December 28, 1981, and was the 14th baby in the world to be born using the techniques developed by Bob Edwards and Patrick Steptoe. Her parents had to travel from their home in Massachusetts to Norfolk, Virginia to seek help from pioneering doctors Howard and Georgeanna Jones who had worked with Edwards and Steptoe.

The Science Museum in London has a new exhibit in its “Who am I?” gallery that includes the actual glass incubator used by Robert Edwards, Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy to carry out the first In Vitro Fertilisation treatment leading to my birth.

In August 1978 my face took up the whole of the front cover of Stern Magazine in Germany, announcing my arrival in the world.

I dropped into the Bristol Old Vic to meet up with the people who are behind, A Child of Science, a play about the pioneers, who successfully invented IVF and brought me into the world in 1978.

I am really looking forward to June when my home city of Bristol has the world premiere of a stage production called A Child of Science.

I was delighted to talk about the early days of IVF on the Fertility Tales podcast that is produced in India.

Olá, Brasil! Sou Louise Brown, a primeira pessoa do mundo nascida com o auxílio da reprodução assistida. Tive a alegria de compartilhar minha história com a revista Fertilitat, que acaba de chegar!

It was a great pleasure to link-up online with Dr Mariangela Badalotti and Dr Rafaella Petracco of Fertilitat in Brazil to talk about my mother and father and the early days of IVF.

I visited the Czech Republic for the first time to support the IVFCube Fertility Clinic in the official launch of ProPlodnost.

An increasing number of people are travelling internationally for fertility treatment and the International Fertility Company helps many with emotional and practical support.

When I was born in July 1978 the Tambre Fertility Clinic in Madrid had already been founded by Dr Cabellero Peregrin to help women who were trying to have babies.

I visited Northern Ireland for the first time to officially open the In-OVO Fertility Clinic, a state-of-the-art facility in Belfast.  

Some amazing discussions and lively debate was prompted when I gave a keynote talk at a Think Tank in Berlin, Germany organised by Fertilly

Travelling to Manchester to give a talk to the North of England Reproductive Medicine Group I realised that in many ways I was going “home”.

The Bristol Centre of Reproductive Medicine (BCRM) in my home city has recently moved into a fantastic new state-of-the-art clinic close to the junction of the M5 and M4 at Aztec West, Bristol.