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World's first test-tube baby is to be a mom



London, July 11 (IANS) Britain's Louise Brown, famous as the world's first test-tube baby, has conceived naturally and is likely to be a mum in January next year.

Born on July 25, 1978, the 27-year-old Louise married Wesley Mullinder, 36, a security officer in September 2004.

The couple that lives in the outskirts of Bristol has always wanted to have children. 'We are overjoyed that Louise is expecting,' Mullinder said, reported the online edition of Daily Mail.

'We are so excited about becoming parents, and I know that Louise will make a fantastic mother.'

Louise was born after her parents, John and Lesley, had tried for nine years to have a child. She works as an administrative assistant for a Bristol shipping company.

Her birth in 1978 brought hope to infertile couples.

And since then millions of babies have been born using in vitro fertilization (IVF). Louise's younger sister Natalie - also conceived via in vitro fertilization - in 1999, became the first adult test-tube baby to have a child of her own.



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