‘People spread rumours I had special powers’: Louise Brown – the first IVF baby – turns 44

The world’s first IVF baby Louise Brown, who was born in 1978, outside the Thérapie Fertility in Carrickmines. Photo: Jason Clarke

Nicola Anderson

Last month, Louise Brown’s teenage son, Cameron, came home from school in a state of high mortification.

His science teacher was using a picture of the 15-year-old boy and his mother to illustrate a lesson on fertility treatments – and the youngster was far from impressed.