Elizabeth Jordan Carr

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. Fred Worth 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.