Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Meet Elizabeth Carr, the first IVF baby born in the United States.

Although IVF with reimplantation of fertilized eggs had long been widely used in animal breeding, the first successful birth of a human child from IVF was carried out in England in 1978. The process successfully moved to the United States in 1981.
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