Happy conception day to me… and 40 years of IVF

Today marks 40 years since  my conception on 10 November 1977!

Following many years of incredible work by Prof Robert Edwards and Dr Patrick Steptoe, they pioneered a technique that would allow my parents to have me and to go on to give millions of other couples the chance to have children.

The media have been getting very excited over the last few weeks as the 40th anniversary of the very first successful IVF procedure came around.

For me it has been a particularly strange time as those cells that divided in a petri dish at a cottage hospital near Oldham on November 10, 1977 became me!