{"id":8313,"date":"2018-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/first-ivf-baby-louise-brown-turns-40\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T16:07:10","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T16:07:10","slug":"first-ivf-baby-louise-brown-turns-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/25\/first-ivf-baby-louise-brown-turns-40\/","title":{"rendered":"First IVF Baby Louise Brown Turns 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Of &#126;280 women in original IVF experiment, Brown was the only birth<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, July 25, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; It&#8217;s been 40 years since the birth of the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF), and there have been more than eight million born since.<\/p>\n<p>Louise Joy Brown, who was 5 pounds 12 ounces when she was born in the United Kingdom on July 25, 1978, made global headlines and gave new hope to infertile couples, the <i>Washington Post<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, whose also goes by her married name of Mullinder, told reporters this week in London that she was 4 when she learned that she was conceived via IVF.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother was among about 280 women who were part of an IVF experiment. Only five of them became pregnant, and Brown was the only birth, the <i>Post<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2018\/07\/25\/happy-birthday-louise-brown-40-years-after-the-first-ivf-baby-8-million-more-and-counting\" target=\"_new\">More Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of &#126;280 women in original IVF experiment, Brown was the only birth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-8313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}