Today are fulfilled three decades of the birth of Louise Brown, the first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, at that time an unprecedented treatment of assisted fertilization in which many infertile couples saw the possibility of realizing their dream of being parents.
The girl became a symbol, the history of reproductive medicine finds a before and after birth. Without a doubt, it was a milestone in the history of mankind.
The technique consisted of artificially joining an ovule with a sperm for the first time outside the human body, waiting for the embryo to form inside a test tube and dividing 64 times to then implant it into the uterus of the mother where it was gestated.
Thirty years later, we are witnessing how that unknown technique has been perfected, allowing more than three million children to be given life worldwide.
It is estimated that 200,000 babies are born through in vitro fertilization every year. Of course, the advances allow the success of the treatment to be increasingly effective, three decades ago the percentage of pregnancies was between 12 and 15%, while currently it is between 40 and 50%.
There are still many to improve, especially in relation to the process of implantation of the embryo in the uterus and in reducing the number of embryos transferred to avoid premature deliveries in multiple pregnancies.
Researchers are in it, but for now we celebrate the lives of all children born thanks to this technique in the last 30 years.
