When was the first IVF baby born?

Physiologist Robert Edwards and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe spent about a decade developing a way to fertilise a human egg in a laboratory dish and return the embryo to the womb. Lesley and John Brown had tried for nine years to have a child before joining the pioneering treatment. Louise was delivered by caesarean section at Oldham General Hospital, weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces, and the press called her the test-tube baby. Robert Edwards received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the work. Experts estimate that more than 12 million babies have since been born worldwide through IVF.