Medical miracles
Mar 24, 2022
3 minutes
ONE-IN-A-MILLION BABY
When Lesley Brown struggled to fall pregnant in the 1970s, she thought she’d never become a mum.
Her blocked fallopian tubes made it impossible for her to conceive naturally, until she was offered a one-in-a-million chance by Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.
The pioneering doctors discovered a way to extract eggs from an ovary and fertilise them, creating embryos outside of the womb.
The procedure, now commonly
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