Mother's Day Google Doodle

All you want to know about Mother's Day Google Doodle:

1. The doodle showcases two pairs of shoes, one of the mother and other of the child. The little pair of shoes is placed slightly behind the comparatively larger shoes to signify the unbreakable bond between the mother and the child and implies that a child blindly trusts and follows its mother everywhere.
2. Sophie Diao, creator of the doodle, says that it is a personal memory of her who used to follow her mother around all the time.
3. She also posted a heart warming message, "As we get older, we forget how heavily we once relied on our mothers and mother-figures. Today's doodle for Mother's Day harkens back to a time in my youth when following Mom around was all I knew. Thanks, Mom, for all the sacrifices, laughs and love."
4. A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the search engine giant's logo on its homepage that is intended to celebrate holidays, events, achievements and people.
5. Previously Google came up with unique and creative doodles on Sigmund Freud's 160th birthday, Labour Day 2016, 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare, Ravi Shankar's birthday and many more.
6. Other than Google, Facebook also wished its users with a colourful Mother's Day post today.
7. Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society.
8. The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.
9. In the United States, celebration of Mother's Day began in the early 20th century.
10. Mother's Day is celebrated in more than 46 countries throughout the world.

The first baby born in the UK using a pioneering fertility screening treatment that could help IVF treatment be more effective is now a healthy four-month-old boy.

The first baby born in the UK using a pioneering fertility screening treatment that could help IVF treatment be more effective is now a healthy four-month-old boy.

Biagio Russo was born to Ewa Wybacz, 36, and Sergio Russo, 42, after a course of IVF which used "next-generation sequencing".

The process allows doctors to easily and cheaply choose the embryos which have the strongest chance of growing into healthy babies and has "huge potential" for improving fertility treatments, Professor Dagan Wells told The Times.

New mother Wybacz was told she would not be able to have children after a childhood bout of appendicitis.

She was helped by the new treatment which can boost the chance of pregnancy for women in their mid-30s to almost 80 per cent.

About half of the embryos produced in IVF have the wrong number of chromosomes which, even if they do result in a pregnancy, can lead to complications,

Until the introduction of this sequencing which rapidly counts chromosomes, the only way of checking was for doctors to manually count and identify problems.

But the process is expensive and as a result is only taken up by one in 20 women.

Prof Wells introduced the process to Britain after the first "next generation" baby was born in America three years ago.

"New genetic tests have huge potential for improving fertility treatments," he said.

"Our aim is to bring these tests within reach of all patients undergoing IVF, not only the wealthy."

Originally published as Baby picked with IVF screening born in UK

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