"Test tube baby"

It's pretty ironic that a student asked me the other day about what a "test tube baby" was.  He had been looking at an article and saw the term mentioned.  It was very hard to explain this to an 11 year old boy!  The ironic part is that is exactly where we will be soon enough- hopefully creating our own "test tube baby."  I felt like saying that I would be able to tell him all about it in a few months.  The other ironic part is that my assistant at school is a baby from IVF...one of the first few hundred babies conceived that way back in the 80s.  She is a constant reminder to me that it is possible to have success with IVF.