A few weeks ago I spent an hour or so in the company of Tokyo-based journalist Kazumoto Ohno, who is writing about the early days of IVF and had some questions for me.

I don’t know about you but I have met lots of people over the years in different circumstances.

For example, I met my husband when he was guarding a door at a nightclub and I was waiting to get in!

But the meeting I had with Elizabeth Carr, the first IVF baby to be born in the US, has to rank as one of the most unusual and nerve-wracking of my life.