Elizabeth Jordan Carr (born
28 December 1981) was the
United States' first
baby born from the
in-vitro fertilization procedure and the 15th in the world. The technique was conducted at
Eastern Virginia Medical School in
Norfolk under the direction of Doctors Howard Jones and
Georgeanna Seegar-Jones, who were the first to try it in the
United States. She was delivered at Norfolk General Hospital in
Norfolk, Virginia by Dr. Mason Andrews weighing 5 pounds 12 ounces. The parents of Elizabeth were Judith Carr, a 28-year-old schoolteacher at the time, and her husband, Roger Carr, 30, of
Westminster, Massachusetts. Elizabeth's mother had been unable to conceive normally because complications during earlier unsuccessful pregnancies had forced removal of her
fallopian tubes. A graduate of
Simmons College in
Boston,
Massachusetts, Carr now works as a journalist for a newspaper in
Maine, Central Maine Newspapers in Augusta, which publishes the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. They are part of the Seattle Times Family group of newspapers.
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