This is incredibly hopeful for many women who never thought they could carry a baby.
In an amazing feat for science, one of the first women to ever have a womb transplant and have a child as a result, is now pregnant with her second ‘miracle’ baby.
Prof. Mats Brannstrom, reports the BBC, who pioneered the surgery in 2014 announced the news at the annual meeting of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
“Mats Brannstrom and his team have achieved a very important proof of concept and we heartily congratulate them once again, said Richard Smith, who leads the UK Uterine Transplant Research Programme.
“Most of all, we have great admiration for all organ donors and those ladies who volunteered to undergo this groundbreaking surgery.
“Absolute uterine infertility is a huge and growing problem affecting tens of thousands of women in this country – and the success of the Swedish team shows that at least some of these women will be able to bear their own child where before there was no hope.”
Now UK doctors have been given the go ahead to perform Britain’s first 10 womb transplants by transplanting wombs from dying donors.
According to the BBC, thousands of women are born without wombs or had to have them removed – this groundbreaking surgery will give them hope that one day they will be able to carry a child.
