First test tube baby is a mom - Hooray for Science!!!

[cbdo2007]

The first child to be born through in-vitro fertilization in the United States became famous from the moment of her birth in 1981. Yesterday, she herself became a mother.

Elizabeth Comeau, born Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is 28 years old and works for the Boston Globe. She looks back on her experience as one of America's most famous babies ever in this piece on Boston.com today.

"I had a normal conception and pregnancy despite my abnormal childhood. And early yesterday, my husband and I had a baby boy 'the normal way,' proving (I hope) that I’m just like everyone else," she writes

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/08/06/first-test-tube-baby-is-a-mom/?hpt=T2

[hlthe2b]

1. Poor woman... It is as if everyone pictures her living in a test tube...

I'm glad she is finding a way to live a "normal" life.

[cbdo2007]

3. she mentions in the article that the term "test tube" baby is inaccurate

because really it was a petrie dish.

Still, though it is important for us to see that she still is "normal" after all these years, because although everything seems ok, 28 years really isn't that long ago and any long term effects of IVF are unknown yet thousands of people have IFV babies every year.

[Warpy]

2. It's kind of a shame that she still feels a need to prove she's normal

The only abnormal thing about her is where sperm an egg met. The rest was entirely normal and so is she.

Congratulations, Elizabeth.

[Tansy_Gold]

4. My sentiments exactly! n/t

[cynatnite]

5. There are some nuts who probably thought she was abnormal and let her know it. n/t

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

6. I find that distinctions between normal/abnormal, natural/unnatural, are useless.

Deep down, things are only possible or impossible, likely or unlikely, and its consequences are desirable or undesirable. All else is pear-clutching.

[cbdo2007]

8. I don't think she "needs to prove she's normal" as much as that all the people

currently having IVF babies are curious to know that there are no complications after 28 years.

Just like the person who had the first heart transplant...you think they should have just done it and never followed up??? Everything is back to normal so no need to ask him how he's doing??

[murielm99]

7. This is so cool.

I remember seeing a photograph a few years ago. It was a large group of young adults. The caption said that they were all test tube babies. What a large number of happy families they represented!