World's first test-tube baby delivers baby boy

London, Jan 13 (UNI) Bristol-based Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, has given birth to a child, believed to be a boy.

Ms Brown, 28, reportedly conceived without the aid of in-vitro fertilisation.

Ms Brown's birth in 1978 hit the headlines around the world as it came after 12 years of research on finding ways to fertilise human eggs outside the body. Ever since her birth, she remained a celebrity and a curiosity. The House of Commons had celebrated her 20th birthday at which a large number of others born through IVF were present.

Ms Brown's mother, Lesley, had tried to have a baby for nine years before she underwent a course of IVF at Kershaw Cottage, Oldham, under the supervision of the British doctors Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe.

Ms Brown got married in 2004 with Wesley Mullinder where Dr Edwards was the guest of honour. At her wedding she had said she would love to have children without the need for IVF.

The proud parents are said to be ''over the moon'' at the birth of their first child. The overwhelmed husband said Louise would make a fantastic mother.

UNI