Elizabeth Jordan Carr
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Elizabeth Jordan Carr (born 28 December 1981) was the United States' first baby born from the in-vitro fertilization procedure and the 15th in the world. The technique was conducted at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk under the direction of Doctors Howard Jones and Georgeanna Seegar-Jones, who were the first to try it in the United States. She was delivered at Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia by Dr. Fred Worth weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces. The parents of Elizabeth were Judith Carr, a 28-year-old schoolteacher at the time , and her husband, Roger Carr, 30, of Westminster, Mass.. Elizabeth's mother had been unable to conceive normally because complications during earlier unsuccessful pregnancies had forced removal of her fallopian tubes.A graduate of Simmons College in Boston, Mass., Carr now works as a journalist for a newspaper in Maine.
External links
- [First IVF child in U.S. meets doctor] - including a recent photo
Sources
- WALTER SULLIVAN, 'TEST-TUBE' BABY BORN IN U.S., JOINING SUCCESSES AROUND THE WORLD", New York times, Published: December 29, 1981, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9F04E3DF1338F93AA15751C1A967948260
- Joe Holley, "Georgeanna Jones Dies at 92; In Vitro Fertilization Pioneer", Washington Post, March 28, 2005; Page B04, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5761-2005Mar27.html
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