Another lab. baby

Press, 16 January 1979, Page 6

Another lab. baby

NZPA-Reuter London A second test-tube baby has been born in Britain, the “Daily Mail” has reported. It said in a copyright story that the child, a boy, was born on Sunday in a Glasgow hospital. The paper said the birth followed the same method of fertilisation which led to the world’s first test-tube baby born in England last year. In both cases the implant which led to the births was performed by Mr Patrick Steptoe. The agency quoted the “Mail” as saying' an egg from the baby’s mother, Mrs Grace Montgomery, had been fertilised outside her body and then implanted in her womb by Dr Steptoe. Mrs Montgomery was unable to have children normally because of a blockage in her fallopian tubes, the newspaper said. The paper said the baby, although born a month early, was delivered normally, NZPA-Reuter reported. The baby’s full name was to be Alastair James Lauchlan Montgomery and it weighed 2.6 kg. A spokesman for Glasgow Stobhill Hospital, said no immediate comment could be made about the story because of arrangements with the “Daily Mail,” but that a statement would be made later in the day. The first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, born on July 25. was reported doing well. A second test-tube baby was reported born in Calcutta last October, and the i doctors involved said they would make a full report on their procedure to the Indian Science Congress scheduled to meet this month in Hyderabad.