First IVF baby turns 40 while Australia's first IVF baby is 38 now

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Louise Brown, dubbed a "test tube baby" was the first baby born using IVF. (AAP) Source: AAP

The world's first "test tube baby" was delivered shortly before midnight on July 25, 1978 in England.

Two years later, Australia's first IVF baby was born in Melbourne.
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