Test tube baby grows up, gives birth

The first test-tube baby on the Chinese mainland, a female born in 1988, is now an adult and gave birth to a healthy boy on Monday, Peking University Third Hospital announced.

The event proves the efficacy of the technology, the hospital said.

People had worried that if a couple had reproductive problems and resorted to in vitro fertilization, their offspring would inherit the same fertility problems. But the birth announced on Monday indicates that is not true. The baby was conceived naturally.