'Is that the test tube baby? She looks normal': Louise Brown on life as world's first IVF baby

Deemed a 'miracle' of science, the world's first baby born through IVF is debunking myths about babies born through artificial insemination ahead of World Fertility Day, July 25

Louise Brown, the world’s first IVF baby, was born in 1978. She was in Ireland to mark Thérapie Fertility's first birthday. Pictures: Jason Clarke

Aged 13, learning about the facts of life in the science room at Bristol-based Hartcliffe Secondary School, Louise Brown spotted her own photograph in the textbook.

“All my friends were saying ‘oh, Louise, you’re in the book’,” recalls Brown, the world’s first baby born via IVF.