Leyland, Zoë
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| Birthname | Leyland, Zoe Elizabeth | ||||
| born on | 28 March 1984 at 23:20 (= 11:20 PM ) | ||||
| Place | Melbourne, Australia, 37s49, 144e58 | ||||
| Timezone | AEST h10e (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   08°03'   24°55 Asc. 09°35'
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Biography
Australian news figure, the world's first child to grow from a frozen embryo, born from a woman whose blocked fallopian tubes prevented her from conceiving normally. Since her birth, sperm banks and embryo banks have become widely available.
"The first time in-vitro fertilization pioneer Professor Alan Trounson saw Zoë Leyland, she was an embryo thawing out in a laboratory dish after being stored in liquid nitrogen at minus 196 degrees Celsius. Eight months and one week later, on 28 March 1984, Zoë made her real debut, as the world's first authenticated frozen-embryo baby, at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Hospital.
Zoë's mother, Loretto, 43, a kindergarten teacher had tried to conceive for eight years when she and her husband, David, 44, a technical services manager, turned to medical help from the world-renowned Monash IVF team.
Zoë was delivered by C-section. Two years later she had a brother, Xavier, conceived naturally. She is quite blasé about the clippings and phenomena of her birth.
Relationships
- compare to chart of Test Tube Baby 14957 (born 5 July 1984)
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes an article in an Australian magazine:
"Three Men and a Frozen Baby," Who, 4/11/1994, p. 64
Categories
- Family : Childhood : Family supportive
- Personal : Birth : Cesarean
- Personal : Birth : Test tube baby (Frozen embryo conception)
- Notable : Famous : 15 minutes of fame
- Notable : Famous : First in Field (First child born from frozen embryo)