Experience: I gave birth to the world’s first IVF boy

‘He is still the most important person in my life’: Grace MacDonald with her son Alastair, now 46. urdo MacLeod/The Guardian‘He is still the most important person in my life’: Grace MacDonald with her son Alastair, now 46. urdo MacLeod/The GuardianExperience: I gave birth to the world’s first IVF boyMy husband and I were unable to have children, and then we heard about a new experimental techniqueI was 26 when my gynaecologist told me that my fallopian tubes were blocked and there would be no way I could get pregnant.